User talk:Victuallers

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Hello, Victuallers, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please User:Wissahickon Creek|Wissahickon Creek]] talk 17:51, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

I'm finished editing Information Age. Feel free to fix anything you see. Thanks Relaxing 14:40, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] License tagging for Image:LakeviewCollegeNotts.jpg

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[edit] Unspecified source for Image:LakeviewCollegeNotts.jpg

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[edit] South Camden Community School (SCCS)

Thanks for your comments on the talk page about the work I did on the article - much appreciated! Bencherlite 23:13, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cherwell School

Hi, there is already an article about the Cherwell School. Please edit that one rather than making a new one. Cheers, Squiddy | (squirt ink?) 20:02, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Yay for being the project

We should put our names on the Project page then. I'll get to work. Adam McCormick 17:09, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

I think pheonixtwo is as close as we're going to get. Anyhow, I'm having fun so that's what matters Adam McCormick 22:35, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re:Ben Franklins School

Thanks for the quick response on Ben Franklin! Yes, I'm the one who updated the Wikiproject Schools project banner to incorporate Class and Importance ratings. Putting "WPSchools" in {{}} is the same thing as leaving class and importance blank: "WPSchools|class=|importance=" In this case, the template places the article in Category:Unassessed school articles, Category:Unassessed-importance school articles, and shows messages about assessment.

Putting "WPSchools|class=start|importance=low" in the {{}} gives the article both a Class and Importance. In this case, the article is placed in Category:Start-Class school articles, Category:Low-importance school articles, and its ratings are displayed. The full usage explanation can be found with the project banner: {{WPSchool}}

As an official WikiProject assessment, a Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team bot automatically keeps track of the articles with this template. That's how we get WikiProject Schools articles by quality, WikiProject Schools articles by importance, and that nice looking statistics table: Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/WikiProject_Schools_articles_by_quality_statistics

As far as adding the banner to pages that don't have it, that's exactly what we want to do. Putting the project banner on an article, whether you give it a rating or not, places it in the proper Wikiproject School categories and the bot will add it to the tally. So add away!!!

If you have any more questions or suggestions about the project banner, please let me know. Best wishes, --Jh12 01:29, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Chilwell article

Hi there!

I've started reworking the Chilwell page a bit. It's in my sandbox for now... what do you think?

I've added a few bits as well as an infobox, and I plan to add more soon. Feel free to edit and add whatever you want...

Tom H 01:32, 7 March 2007 (UTC)


Hi looks much better ..... Criticism .... (Ive joined the schools project so I now "know") Infobox tick BAC3 Good, but tell people what it is before giving them a click to find out more. Nice way to show the other schools red links! Missing is

1. Logo (Problem is to get a provably copyright free one) 2. Some Pictures

I think that we have a "Start" article now. A "B" is some way off. Take a look at Westminster School to see what a B looks like. However we have the best page in the area as far as I can see. Well done. Do we know any sporty types who could "boast" about our achievemements.

Fancy bits ..... can ayone write a stub in French or Thai? Victuallers 13:03, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

PS 300 edits ... wimp :-) But you have been vandalised!

I've got a logo I made in Adobe Illustrator for the yearbook last year, so I'll upload that as my own work and put that in... I'll see about pictures, too.
Not sure about sports stuff, I know there are some but I don't know details.
I could do short french and spanish stubs... not thai though!


And it's almost 400 edits now (395)... still wimpy but a little better! ;) Tom H 16:43, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
Just went live with the changes, I've put a logo on and added info on BAC3. See what you think and make any changes you want. I'll try adding more over the next few weeks or so. Tom H 22:31, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your Chilwell note on my talk page

Sorry for being too enthusiastic. The article was once deleted completely by the upper admin because of complaints from the school's administration. I was able to get it reinstated with the provision that I'd watch it like a hawk. I certainly appreciate the need to help newbies, but a comments in informal language about a club that meets on Friday isn't exactly encyclopedic (note that I didn't say "vandalism" in my edit summary). I guess the message that should be communicated to newbies is that edits to an article on a local school should be no less "formal" and encyclopedic than edits to a FA article such as Titanic or George Washington. Again, sorry for stepping on toes. Akradecki 16:38, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Page blanking

Have you seen the Chilwell page now? Do they have the right to do that?! Tom H 14:35, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] St. Johnsbury Academy

I just looked at your comments at Talk:St. Johnsbury Academy. I concur with them generally. However, I did not understand your "controversy" comment. What did that pertain to? If anything, the article completely lacks controversy. It could use a little more! Could you expand your comments on that topic alone while it is fresh in your mind? Since no one requested a rating, the article clearly not being ready for one, maybe this was intended for another school? Thanks for your comments.Student7 22:21, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your update.
The second part of the question though, is why we received a rating at all? We never asked for an evaluation. We have never had a logo like Talk:Champlain Valley Union High School. All of the sudden, boom, we are weighed in the balance and found wanting! Just when we least expected it! We need more time! I don't want to erase a perfectly valid evaluation, but why do we have to be evaluated at this point? Thanks.Student7 00:11, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar

Thank you and I'm flatterred both for the imaginary barnstart and the "Working man's barnstart" but can you even do that? Wow. Adam McCormick 00:52, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

The imaginary bit was in reference to a a comment you made on my talk page before you gave me the real barn star, anyhoe, thanks again! Adam McCormick 17:29, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Aquinas College, Perth

If you look at the talk page Pheonix 2 assessed the article and gave it a GA ratin, that is why i reverted, because the other user said that it hadnt been assesed when it had, but he had good faith. SMBarnZy 22:25, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Well, i just look at earlier revisions to see when it was added, if it was added with no other supporting documentation, i generally revert it, unless i think the rating is somewhat correct. But, remember to be careful when reverting, and also to discuss it with the person who changed the article's grade, because if you change their descision without any justification it can get pretty heated. Thanks for the wiki-msg SMBarnZy 08:32, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Westminster School

I dont think that this article is A-Class, which it appears that you changed it to from B-Class, my major reasoning for this is that the article is lacking quite largely in the references section. Some of the article needs to be cleaned up slightly, and that is why i would give this article a B-Class rating, feel free to discuss this with me on my talk page if you disagree. I am going to change the article to B-Class. SMBarnZy 10:46, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] School

Blanked it... reverted by a bot within 30 secs! [1] Tom H 21:39, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar

The Working Man's Barnstar
For tirelessly assessing articles for WikiProject Schools, I award Victuallers the Working Man's Barnstar --Jh12 15:30, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

I copied this to the user page - ie its the same one.

[edit] Derby School alumni

Thank you, Victuallers, I found some Old Derbeians, some of them already here on Wikipedia and some others. My approach was to Google "at Derby School" and "at Derby Grammar School", including the quotation marks.

I started new pages for Lawrence Beesley and Edward James (martyr) this afternoon. I have also created a new category, Old Derbeians, and rewritten parts of the Derby School article - you may be able to improve on my efforts there.

with kind regards,

Xn4 16:30, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] CLC

Is there a definition of a term "Contemporary Learning Center"? If so, I wonder if it would be more appropriate for Wiktionary? WhisperToMe 18:00, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Conard High School

Thanks for the assessment of Conard High School. Did you mean to mark it as lacking an infobox? Also, what is the one critical element that could get it to B-class? Λυδαcιτγ 17:30, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

I fixed this on the talk page. Adam McCormick 19:43, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Derbyshire Schools

Thanks, I've added the other schools to the template.

Pleased with Derby School, looking rather better.

Xn4 03:19, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Nottinghamshire Schools

I've created the template and added it to the schools' pages.

I wasn't sure which category to put New College, Nottingham, into - you can click on the purple title at the head of the template to go to the page to edit. Xn4 00:56, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Unblock

Not sure why I have been blocked. I have been on about a 100 school pages today assessing the pages for "schools project". I suspect someone has seen my signature below an assessment and assumed it is just vandalism rather than a signature for the change made. Can you please unblock me so I can continue? Evidence ... see Barnstar on this page

Pilotguy mistakened you blocked you for less than a minute according to your block log, but somehow you managed to trigger the autoblocker before he could unblock you. All fixed now and apologies for any inconvenience caused. --  Netsnipe  ►  18:31, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Dame Alice Owen's School

Hi! Sorry, I'm really bad at rating things like this :-( removed half-sentence, since I see you're quite familiar with wikiproject schools!I don't really know anything about this school: I just came across the article when hunting a vandal. However, I can say that it needs some sources. If it does as well as the article suggests, there should be some (local) newspaper articles on it. Skittle 17:56, 26 March 2007 (UTC)


[edit] RE: Mountsorrel

Hi,

Thanks for the email...the beauty of the wiki is you can help to change it, so if you think the wording is off, you can change it! Having said that, I was probably half asleep when I typed that!

EVOCATIVEINTRIGUE TALKTOME | EMAILME 14:01, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Materials database

Perhaps you can hel;p improve this article enough to save it. It was changed into a redirect to DATABASE, for no good reason thaty I can see. I reverted that, and hope it sticks. ,At present the status is a prod, giving till the 1st April to improve it.DGG 02:23, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Assessments of "The" Articles

I've just added functionality to the template to change name within all the categories it adds to the talk page. By using the "page" parameter you can now set the name used within all those categories. Cheers. Adam McCormick 07:40, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cheadle Hulme School

Hi. Thank you for evaluating the Cheadle Hulme School article. I am glad that you found it strong in many areas, but was surprised to see that you said it lacked an alumni section. There is such a section headed "notable Old Waconians". You also suggested that it could do with some references. I have tried to add references to as many areas of the article as possible now. I was wondering whether in light of this it would be possible for you to re-assess the article, and if you still do not consider it B-Class to explain what further would be needed to get it up to this class. Thank you in advance. TomPhil 23:11, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Hi. Many thanks for your quick response to my message and your re-evaluation of the Cheadle Hulme School article. TomPhil 23:46, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
Sorry it says you have no infobox ... I.ll improve ... tomorrow

[edit] The Springfield College & The Lakes College - External Links and Sorting

[[Category:]]Hi There:

Your (current) contributions to Wikipedia appear to be to assess and add/amend links to Schools throughout the world - a worthy task.

On 26th March, you changed all external links for The Springfield College from "T" to "S" and for the The Lakes College from "T" to "L".

On the same day I changed them back, only to have you on the 31st March again change (only) The Springfield College - and I've again reverted your change today (1st April).

Please be advised that the correct (and full Registered) name of the schools are The Springfield College and The Lakes College.

You've also done similar sorting changes to some (but not all) other schools that have "The" as part of their name - with some you've been correct, with others I hink you've been wrong, and with some - like The King's School, Canterbury which you've decided should come under "K" - I'm not sure what is correct ;-). On their website, in general text they refer to themselves colloquially as "Kings", but for their full name, they formally show The King's School.

PS: I am aware (and agree) that in certain contexts (e.g. cataloging books in libraries), very common words (such as articles) at the beginning of a sequence of words are not considered for ordering, or are moved to the end, but this should not be the case for legal entities (as it is with these two private schools).

I've also read Wikipedia:Categorization and believe these to be an exception.

Pkortge 08:45, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

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