Talk:Porter-Gaud School

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[edit] Cases

Porter-Gaud School makes no attempt to hide the facts in the cases related to the late Mr. Fisher. However, we do make every attempt to protect the anonymity of his victims. Moreover, the School has moved on in positive ways over the past decade and our website reflects the present reality. 9 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] crest

I recently reworked the layout of the page. Please tell me what I could do to improve it or if you see a section that you don't like. Also, if anyone has a high-res version of the crest email it to me. I had to work with the one I had available to me. It looks ok as is but not as good as it could.

-Harlan Harlanh001@gmail.com

[edit] notable alumni - references needed

Could somebody please add citations to verify Stephen Colbert and Jack Hitt did attend this school. --Rob 00:35, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] porter gaud...

Like what you are doing to this page, saying that porter gaud is a very good school, nothing wrong with that,but dont you think there should be more about the dark pages of this school?

                                 myself

[edit] ok...

I know, via alumni, that Stephen Colbert and Jack Hitt did attend the school, I am a student at Porter-Gaud and will make a trip to the archive room tomorrow... there I will locate Yearbooks featuring these two men and scan for your verification. In the meantime, I will try to locate other proof.

You can see stephen's yearbook pictures? neato

[edit] Campus

If anyone has pictures of the campus and would like to share them, please email me or post them on the page. Harlanh001@gmail.com

[edit] NPOV

I pared Porter-Gaud down to some semblance of NPOV, and a couple dedicated editors keep reverting it, including a comment about the student council being "awsome". Are there specific issues with the edits I made that you don't agree with?

[edit] Supreme Editor Second in command General Jason

General of the Army Harlan and I (GEN Jason) have deemed this website as a place for people to look at in order to recieve current information and going into some detail. We dissagree with you shortening the size of the page and resent the fact that you do not look at all of our efforts into making this page. As to the student council being "awsome" this was a student named SSG John has been demoted to SGT untill he has come before the council. This was not implied by our support staff and will be fixed.

Unfortunately, gentlemen, this entire encyclopedia is under strict orders to keep a Neutral Point of View. That means no puffery, no boasting, no peacock feathers. Surely, however, you gentlemen are confident enough in Porter-Gaud that you don't need to rely on flowery, nonsense language to show how impressive the school is, do you? Focus on making factual statements that you can back up with specific sources. Show how good a school Porter-Gaud is. Don't just say so. And don't dump a list of good schools that PGS alumni have gone to. (And remember to sign your posts by putting ~~~~ after them.) Truly, JDoorjam Talk 00:31, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

I disagree this page does not in any form violate the NPOV. Jason 00:39, 10 February 2006 (UTC) General Jason

There are two substantive changes I made: deleting the (unsourced) list of schools you claim alumni have gone to, and deleting the sentence "Porter-Gaud represents over a century of experience in preparing students for college and guiding them through their formative years to maturity." which sounds as though it came straight out of a brochure. All of the other changes I made were for readability purposes. Relax: substantively, the article is almost exactly as you wrote it. JDoorjam Talk 00:48, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

You still do not understand the situation. This page does not violate the NPOV and I am very annoyed in your changes to this. I General Jason do not wish to take this, for this site has had many hours labored over the prefection it was in and we are currently having various problems of which are not being helped by your "good efforts" I hope you understand why I am in such a mood, and do not do anything further for this is our page eventhough might be a wikipedia site we still have had hard labor from our fellow workers. Therfore I request that you let us revert to how the page was before and you will never come again to destroy all that we have worked on.Jason 01:15, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, "General"; that's simply not how Wikipedia works. If you'd like something that no one can edit, this ain't the place to put it. When you go to respond to this message, I advise you scroll down to the very bottom of the window, and read the first line under "Please note:". JDoorjam Talk 01:19, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

I advise you to go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation_popups/About_fixing_redirects and this might explain that you are not suposed to abuse this tool.

[edit] how does that justify?

their is a comment saying: because we have beeing behaveing better , it is all good. that might be, but it musnt be forgotten. so i think that it should be on this wikipage.Frederikhak 10:29, 2 May 2006 (UTC)frederikhak

[edit] GOD

I ereasd some external links, which seamed like they had nothing to do with this school(greetings from the bischop...) If im wrong please contact me on this discussion page or in my own page. Please do not add it again.Frederikhak 11:42, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Assessment

This is very nearly a B but doesn't quite qualify because of the lack of references (only the alumni are referenced). See if you can convert the lists to prose sections. Trivia sections are usually frowned upon - try and incorporate the material into the text. Keep up the good work and come back for a re-assessment when you have some more references. Dahliarose 23:15, 29 October 2007 (UTC)