User talk:Social Evolutionary

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Welcome and apologies
I don't know if you saw the reply to your message on my talk page, but welcome, and I'm sorry for reverting your first edit on School Without Walls (Canberra). I realised it was your first edit about 15 minutes after I reverted it and I was intending to drop you a line with some editing tips, but had to deal with something away from a computer. I've sent you "lamington" welcome message above with some useful links and guidelines, have a read, and let me know if you have any questions or you want some advice on an edit.

In terms of specific reasons of why I reverted your edit, the main one would have been this (from Help:Editing): "''An encyclopedic style with a formal tone is important: straightforward, just-the-facts, instead of essay-like, argumentative, or opinionated. The goal of a Wikipedia article is to create a comprehensive and neutrally written summary of existing mainstream knowledge about a topic. Wikipedia does not publish original research. An encyclopedia is, by its nature, a tertiary source that provides a survey of information already published in the wider world. Ideally, all information should be cited and verifiable by reliable sources. Sourcing requirements are significantly stricter in articles on living persons.''"

Essentially your addition, while an interesting insight into this amazing school, was not worded in a neutral encyclopedic tone, and contained several statements of opinion, value judgements and informal language, such as "[the government] could not stomach real democracy", "A courageous community campaign to save the school failed", and "RIP SWOW". Additionally, none of the material had references (see Citing sources), so even possibly encyclopedic content such as the school's structure and operational processes were apparently personal recollections, or appeared as such.

Hope that explains the removal of your edit, and once again, apologies for making your first editing experience unpleasant. I hope you continue to edit and contribute despite this setback, and again, feel free to contact me on my talk page if you have any questions or need advice, or you can post on the Australian Wikipedians' notice board for advice on editing Australian content from the broader local community. --Canley (talk) 10:55, 25 February 2022 (UTC)