Talk:Schoolies week

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ich haben einen bruder.

Ich habe keine Brüder. --Croperz 12:31, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

hoorah

[edit] consent age

this contributes to the reason why older 'toolies' are often see hanging around the younger girls as the age of consent in Queensland is 16 years old.

Is this sentence really needed and the age of consent is 16 in every state except TAS and SA.?

[edit] Major clean

Some major clean-ups, as this article was rife with advertising-esque commentary from an event management group who are not notable enough for their own article, passive-voice passages and bad grammar. It's still messy, and requires several verifications and references to remain as-is. Lenky (talk) 03:04, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Vanuatu

Re the insertion of sentences promoting Vanuatu as a schoolies location:

• The claim that this is the "new" schoolies location is unsourced. Wikipedia's verifiability policy makes clear that sources are required for new claims such as this. If Vanuatu is genuinely the latest schoolies location, there will surely be some mention of this in reliable independent sources, and these can be referenced in the article.
• The wording of the claim strongly resembles original research. It is suggested that Vanuatu offers an increased level of safety without compromising a party atmosphere. Fine, but says who? If an editor has been to a schoolies week in anuatu and found the above to be true, that's a primary source and not sufficinet for inclusion in the article.

This article contains many unsourced statements and it might be argued there is no need to single out the Vanuatu claim for removal. None of the other schoolies locations have references either. Unfortunately the existence of other stuff is not much of an argument - there shouldn't be any unsourced statements, and as schoolies weeks get blanket coverage there is no excuse for not referencing all the others.

Rather than edit warring over the Vanuatu reference, how about we all work toward referencing it and the other claims? As a compromise solution to get started, I've left the Vanuatu claim in with a fact tag but removed the originalr esearch later in the piece.

Any other views or comments would be welcome. Euryalus (talk) 23:48, 11 May 2008 (UTC)