User talk:P-BEG

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hey

Welcome to Wikipedia. We invite everyone to contribute constructively to our encyclopedia. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing. However, unconstructive edits, such as those you made to Devonport High School for Boys, are considered vandalism. If you continue in this manner you may be blocked from editing without further warning. Please stop, and consider improving rather than damaging the hard work of others. Thanks. Symon 03:24, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Hi, please don't edit other folks comments. Perhaps you could take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Talk_page_guidelines and find the section "Don't misrepresent other people" to find out why this is against Wikipedia guidelines. Thanks, Symon 17:28, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] DHS Article, Declining academic standards.

Hi P-BEG, I saw your recent edit to the DHS article. I don't think that one statistic cherry picked from the BBC website shows declining academic standards. Other stats from the very same BBC page http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/education/05/school_tables/secondary_schools/html/879_alevel_lea.stm show the school top of the table wrt A level results. I fail to see how this shows "declining academic standards". To show 'declining' you need to show it is worse now than it was in the past, which you do not do.

Wikipedia also recommends you do not use weasel words. Saying "...according to many in Plymouth..." is an example. Do you have any sources to back this up?

Anyway, I've left your paragraph as it is for now, I'll wait for your response to this note, or leave it to you or others to consider what you've written and how impartial it is. Maybe you'd like to reference the link I posted above. Whatever else, it's good to see you making a more thoughtful contribution after your earlier experiments. Regards, Symon 18:50, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

OK, you didn't respond to my message, so I adjusted the section in question to reference the DfES website. The statistics presented on the DfES website are detailed.Symon 17:10, 2 December 2006 (UTC)