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I have been doing research based on top preparitory schools in Chicago. It is accurate that both Fenwick and Ignatius are top schools with a valid rivalry. They are considered to be the Andover and Exeter of the Midwest. Fenwick is more accomplished than Ignatius especially when it comes to extra curricular achievements. I suspect that someone is trying to list all of their achievemnts and important facts of the schools history. The facts are correct, and yes it does come off as a little overwhelming, but one has to give credit where credit is due. You can't get around Fenwick being objectively impressive and highly accomplished. Their ACT score is parallel to that of Ignatius at about 27. Ignatius is a far more beautiful campus with excellent matriculations to top schools, but Fenwick has a much more disciplined approach and focus which stresses accomplishement as everything. Fenwick is the hard core school for the future career scholar. Check out the harlem and Iving Times of pioneer based in Oak Park, they cover Fenwick continuously. If you just replace the needed citations with that added source, the Fenwick pape would be factually accurate.

[edit] Fenwick edits

Thank you for your interest in improving the Fenwick High School article. We appreciate the information about another potential news source that may help verify much of the unsourced material in the article. Unfortunately, my visit to the newspaper's website yielded no information about Fenwick (about some of its neighboring schools, yes, but, alas, not Fenwick). Maybe you can point us to some of the articles by listing their URLs. Also, if you have only print article sources, please add them to the WP article in correct citation and reference format.

  • Take a look at Citation templates for information on how to format citations of sources. You may also find Footnotes especially helpful, since this is the area you were asking assistance on. This article discusses how to format citations for footnotes using the <ref> . . . </ref> tags to enclose a citation. More to the point on what you were trying to do, you can repeat a footnote reference to an existing cite by naming it (<ref name="name"> . . . </ref>) the first time you use it, and then reference it without using the citation detail just by using <ref name="name"/>. The neat thing about this is that you don't have to worry about the footnote numbering (or re-numbering when new citations are added), because the <references/> tag at the end of the article does all that for you.

Until every statement of verifiable fact has been appropriately sourced, please do not remove the citation-needed reference tags (either individual ones or section). Please set up a username so we can communicate with you better. Click on Create account and choose a username and password. You don't need to provide any personal information. If you sign up, you'll have a username that is unique that others can use to recognize you and leave you messages on your Talk page. You'll be able to sign your name just by typing four tildes (~~~~) when you leave someone else a message. Plus, you (and others) will easily be able to see a list of all your contributions to Wikipedia.

Thanks.
—  Jim Dunning  talk  :  16:42, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

You said, "Did you ask to see a copy of their high school records. There is even a photo shop where you can buy countless images of their achievements on line. I just need help with citations-help me out!" in your last edit summary. Please read the above information (on this page) for help with citations and footnotes, and communicate with me either on my Talk page or the Fenwick Talk page. DO NOT limit your communications to the Edit Summaries. I appreciate that you are trying to help and I am glad to assist you, but you need to read the instructions for citations and footnoting before you try to add or delete anything more from WP articles. You risk being banned because of the number and frequency of revert edits you are doing. We don't want that.
Please set up a username so we can communicate with you better. Click on Create account and choose a username and password. Your IP address changes everytime you log on and that makes it difficult for us to communicate.
Also, please send me the URL to the newspaper websites that you are referencing. Leave them on my Talk page. Thank you.
—  Jim Dunning  talk  :  17:18, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

Dunning, please check the Fenwick talk page for further clarification. I will not remove the tag until citations are placed correctly

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Check out the Preview button on the Edit page. This will decrease the number of edit history entries. It lets you preview your revision before saving it, letting you fix or tweak things before saving.
—  Jim Dunning  talk  :  20:40, 9 June 2007 (UTC)