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November 2012

Hello, I'm Sitush. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Edward Vere Levinge, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so! If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Sitush (talk) 15:13, 29 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, I've had to revert every single edit that you have made this month and a few from earlier still. It is simply not acceptable to insert statements concerning Stubbington House School without complying with our verification policy. Furthermore, such is the extent of your work on that particular school, I wonder whether you may perhaps have a conflict of interest. - Sitush (talk) 15:47, 29 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, Gavelman. You have new messages at Sitush's talk page.
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Fiddle Faddle (talk) 15:35, 30 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Stubbington House School alumni

Apart from the conversation on Sitush's talk page, highlighted above, I would like to make a powerful suggestion to you over the alumni in this school. I've just spent a rather long number of minutes doing a couple of things.

The first is the addition, really to show the way, of a few citations that link the alumnus unambiguously with the school. If you are not already familiar, please read WP:CITE and try out the tools at your disposal. The fuller the citation the better. And you do not need to rely on web based citations. Paper based are fine provided they can be referenced and they are reliable sources though a very few primary sources are acceptable as a minority of sources.

The second is to fight the list into alphabetical order of surname. Please, please never allow any alumni to be added to the list without checking the order (and without a citation for the new folk).

I spent some time in the article because the school seems to me to have played a significant part in our history. I remember visiting the school when it was in Ascot and seeing a fairly depressing and run down place. I never realised its pedigree back then. Fiddle Faddle (talk) 20:56, 30 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the hard work in making my well meaning, but poorly written up, additions to Stubbington House School. It now looks magnificent. I have twenty four further alumni whom I believe are worth mentioning, even though, at present, they do not have biographies on Wikipedia, as well as some more generic material. I shall use your good practice as a template for further addions. Gavelman (talk) 10:36, 3 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia is a strange hobby. The best fun is in bumbling into an area where one has no knowledge at all and doing some research to create worthwhile articles. You might find this essay of interest as you spend more time here. Fiddle Faddle (talk) 11:40, 3 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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