Talk:Maret School

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No one gives a rats about "phase one" or "phase two" Or the bloody fire.

as a student of the school, it directly relates to me 72.83.117.107 21:45, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

You're lucky i haven't posted a list of all the seemier things that have transpired at maret, as the Elders of the school will attest. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 216.15.32.14 (talk) 00:25, 7 April 2007 (UTC).

I am just trying to maintain the page to be a truthful one. Please refrain from adding incorrect graduates etc. The bot keeps asking for citations and evidence of truthfulness after you have made your changes, and this is getting tedious to keep reverting. In terms of 'phase one' and 'phase two', maybe you are right, but they did happen and are factual. Ncosh 13:28, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

I am not a bot and yes, I keep re-adding the unreferenced and cleanup tags, since and Wikipedia articles do need to cite the sources of facts per the attribution policy — otherwise there is no easy way of verifying the claims in the article.

Some anonymous user has been edit warring with you here; I would chime in, but I simply cannot tell which one of you is right since neither of you cite your sources. The best I could do is remove all unsourced claims leaving only the obvious.

-- intgr 13:45, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, sorry for the bot comment! I am a bit confused as to what in the article needs citation/sourcing. The history of Woodley is covered in the woodleysociety.org site linked at the bottom, but I don't believe there are any external sources available. The rest of the article is factual and can all be found on www.maret.org (also linked at the bottom). The anonymous user keeps changing facts and adding material that isn't true, but as I am editing this out whenever it happens I'm not sure what else I can do.

Ncosh 14:08, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Ah, see Wikipedia:Citing sources for how to tie sources with the text. -- intgr 14:23, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

I have added sources wherever I can, and all other info in the article is on the school website which is linked at the bottom. Is it OK to remove the notices now? -- Ncosh 17:24, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

The "cleanup" notice is there for a different reason — the article is using some homebrewn infobox; that should be removed or converted into the standard {{infobox school}} -- intgr 17:40, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

A couple of points with this article:

• I have removed two "references" that didn't even mention Maret School, let alone any facts relevant to this article (unless I am missing something). References are necessary for verifying the content of the article, not just linking to something.
• Also note that you shouldn't copy and paste whole sentences from other sources unless you are explicitly quoting them, as you have done with the tuition section (and possibly others, I can't be bothered to check now) — this is copyright infringement.
• Is the "Fire" section important for the purposes of an encyclopedia at all? If it was, surely you could find references to it in the media? A quick web search turned up nothing. -- intgr 15:46, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for improving the article, Ncosh. -- intgr 20:15, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Addressing the initial comment on this talk page, "You're lucky i haven't posted a list of all the seemier things that have transpired at maret", you are welcome to add controversial information as long as you can find a reliable source, and can convey this information with a neutral point of view. -- intgr 15:53, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

to concur with intgr...

Well.. where to start... A fifth grader at Maret could have built a better argument then that... Maybe you haven't heard, but Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and thus the article, Maret being an entry in this encyclopedia, should have relevant information to the subject Maret. Not to be argumentative, however, Phase one and Phase two were two of the largest renovations on the school campus since it was built and the fire was kinda on news 4 which makes it a kinda big deal to some people. This effectively renders all three of those topics both relevant and important for an encyclopedia entry (assuming were both talking about the type of encyclopedia that has important information in it about the topics). Secondly, I doubt that the Maret article is "lucky" because it would probably just be edited out by someone anyone with common sense. Thirdly, seemier isn't a word. Fourthly, because of your lack of credibility and the fact that "the Elders" (whatever cult that is) would not be able to be verified as sources it really wouldn't matter... I mean, any old assclown could write whatever they want, but it doesn't make it true... -Ponx a.k.a Trigger (talk) 03:17, 7 May 2008 (UTC)