Talk:Vidura College - Colombo

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The content for this wiki page is published by the permission of Vidura College - Colombo, and the contect are referd to the college web site. (InduUS (talk) 18:29, 25 January 2008 (UTC)Indu R SumanasekeraInduUS (talk) 18:29, 25 January 2008 (UTC))

Images published on this wiki page is used by the permission of Vidura College Colombo, and they are referd to the college web site. (InduUS (talk) 18:37, 25 January 2008 (UTC)Indu R Sumanasekera, Web Mater, Vidura College.comInduUS (talk) 18:37, 25 January 2008 (UTC))

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[edit] Copyright Permission for WikiMedia

Follow this link for permission to use content from Vidura College web site on WikiMedia http://www.viduracollege.com/ContactUs/TermsOfUse.html (InduUS (talk) 19:19, 25 January 2008 (UTC)Indu R Sumanasekera, Web Master, Viduracollege.comInduUS (talk) 19:19, 25 January 2008 (UTC))

(copied from User talk:InduUS by Sbowers3 (talk) 20:11, 25 January 2008 (UTC))

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[edit] Motto

I removed the following motto from the school's infobox, because it is mangled: "Onslef is Own's Protector". If that was supposed to be "Oneself is one's own protector" please substitute that back into the article.--Srleffler (talk) 19:28, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Nevermind. I found the correct text in the body of the article.--Srleffler (talk) 19:40, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wikilinks are not references

Several edit summaries state that they added references but the edits merely added wikilinks. Please read WP:REF and WP:V. References are the sources of your information. Other editors should be able to verify the content of an article by checking the references. This article has wikilinks to related articles but does not indicate the sources for the content of this article. Sbowers3 (talk) 19:47, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Restored tags

I restored the tags (cleanup, etc.). It would be best if you let outside editors decide when those tags can be removed. I also restored the categories; they were okay - no reason to remove them.

In your edit summaries you said that you "referenced" but you did not. References indicate the source of your information. Ideally each section of the article would have a footnote to indicate where you found that information. All content in Wikipedia should be verifiable by other editors. The information cannot be just something that you know; it must be something that appeared in a reliable source that other editors can read to verify that the information in the article is correct. Near the bottom of the article should be a section called "References" followed by a list of all the sources of the footnotes that appeared previously in the article.

You may not know all the details of how to make a footnote. For now, you should just provide your sources as URLs if the information came from a web page or as the title of a published book or newspaper if the information came from printed paper. As much as possible you should try to find sources that are independent of the college. If you can find any newspapers or magazines that contain information about the college, those would be very good to provide. Sbowers3 (talk) 02:04, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Need help to refine the page content InduUS