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Replaceable fair use File:West Springfield High School- Massachusetts.jpg
Thanks for uploading File:West Springfield High School- Massachusetts.jpg. I noticed that this file is being used under a claim of fair use. However, I think that the way it is being used fails the first non-free content criterion. This criterion states that files used under claims of fair use may have no free equivalent; in other words, if the file could be adequately covered by a freely-licensed file or by text alone, then it may not be used on Wikipedia. If you believe this file is not replaceable, please:


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Total reversion of arpingstone edits
I am baffled why you reverted my entire edit to this article. It is never acceptable to do a total revert like that, such an action is called vandalism. I have edited thousands of articles on WP since I began in 2002, yet you think it is OK to do a total reversion on me.

Using just one paragraph of the article as an example, I will explain my edits (its far too long a job to explain my every edit to the article):

PARAGRAPH BEFORE I EDITED IT: The school and town is known for their exceptional Wrestling and Football programs. The school boasts roughly 2,000 students, 107 faculty members, 50 support staff, a fully functional physical education facility (complete with olympic-sized pool), and a myriad of extracurricular, co-curricular activities, and offers many MIAA-sanctioned sports, including (but not limited to):

PARAGRAPH AFTER MY EDIT: The school is known for its wrestling and football programs. The school has roughly 2,000 students, 107 faculty members, 50 support staff, a physical education facility (with Olympic-sized pool), extracurricular and co-curricular activities, and offers MIAA-sanctioned sports, including:

You fully reverted the paragraph (and the rest of the article) to the previous version!

In case you don't understand what was wrong with the paragraph, here are its five main faults analysed: 1. Why was the town mentioned? This is a school article so I removed the mention of the town. 2. A word like "exceptional" is rarely allowed in WP, we call it a Peacock word. It is not allowed because it would need a reference to prove it is true and none is provided. 3. In the phrase "a fully functional physical education facility" the words "fully functional" convey no information whatever, so I removed them. 4. "including (but not limited to)" is a very strange phrase indeed! "Including" is fine but adding "not limited to" is very odd because "including" already means "not limited to". So it was a great example of tautology (i.e. saying the same thing twice). 5. Sports do not take a capital so it is "wrestling" not "Wrestling" and "football" not "Football". I will again edit that article and if reverted again I will start procedures to have you blocked from editing. This is not a threat, it is simply telling you WP procedure. (Note: removing this User Talk entry would automatically start blocking procedures. However if my upcoming edit is allowed to stand, of course this User Talk entry can be deleted) Best Wishes - Adrian Pingstone (talk) 19:00, 24 October 2013 (UTC)