User talk:Ocohen
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[edit] Thanks
Thanks for your picture for Harrow Footbal, it really adds to the article. --Apyule 12:40, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Houses of Harrow School
I noticed that the Rendalls House and Bradbys House articles were deleted and turned into redirects (a peculiarly savage and unnecessary act, as a simple redirect would have been enough).
I've started a new article (title above). Feel free to help me to expand it.
If you add information, could you please say what your source is? For instance a lot of the information in Rendalls House, such as the list of House Masters, should have a published source. Other information, such as the famous former members, is listed on the Harrow School website on the page for the history of that House. If you'd like me to put a copy of your deleted work into your user space for reference purposes (which I can do as an administrator) please ask. --Tony SidawayTalk 04:06, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Houses of Harrow School
In all fairness, all public schools have houses, and the article as it stands shows no evidence of the "encyclopaedic" information of which you speak. As of right now, it is only a list of houses, with scant facts about them (name, colours, master), making it effectively a series of entries for a directory, which, according to policy, Wikipedia is not. I might suggest that your opinion of this information may be somewhat biased, you being at Harrow itself. In general, vanity writing, including writing about one's own friends, family, school, etc. is discouraged, as the results are more often . Kudos for your work on the article on Harrow School, but it is my opinion that an article on the houses is not for us, an opinion supported by current policy. I might suggest trying your hand at some other articles for a while (one of the beauties of Wikipedia is that you really never know what you'll find next). You could try browsing the lists of new pages or recent changes for some ideas, or perhaps some of the lists at WP:MEA which need sorting. If you're feeling particularly adventurous, look at a few random pages and see if something turns up you can add to. Maintenance tasks such as copyediting, wikifying and adding context to new articles are as important (if not moreso) than actually adding new information to articles, since they make our existing body of information accessible to a broader userbase.
I'm not trying to be mean, honest :o), but I'd encourage you to try exploring the big wide world of Wikipedia and its numerous sister projects . I started out with some edits to stubs about my local area, and a year on, my braglist extends to documentary films, UK taxation, and a lot of minor edits (I see spelling errors on other websites and find myself reaching for a non-existent "edit" button to fix them :-o). Widen your scope a little at a time, you really won't regret it.
Happy editing, and may your career here be long and as close to "happy" as WP will reasonably allow ;-) Chris talk back 18:58, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Thanks
Thanks for all your work on the Harrow School article, I found it very interesting reading. Puchu 12:18, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
