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Hi Peter Eedy! You recently removed a section from the St. Joseph's Nudgee College article referring to it as unencyclopedic and it was an 'allegation'. Can you please explain your actions? It appears as vandalism as the section meets
Hello JRA
The section referred to a person who "accused" and then added the assertion that four others had suicided. The other matter noted that "a report ... stated". All items had the appearance of allegations (yet to be proven?).
I concede that these are horrendous allegations, but just didn't see their relevance in an encyclopaedic entry about a school.
I add that have nothing whatsoever to do with the Nudgee College -- I was just following some links about GPS sport.
As for your suggestion of vandalism, if you care to visit my other contributions to Wikipedia you will see that I am a considered contributor
Regards (and good luck with your baseball)
Peter Peter Eedy (talk) 11:43, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
- Hey Pete! I think you've slightly missed the point on the controversy section, it is not there to demean the school, it is simply there because it was an allegation made in the news that meets WP:NOTABLE, therefore doesn't even technically have to be true as long as it is covered by a 3rd party source. An example of this would be conspiracy theories (moon landing, aliens etc), because they are covered by 3rd party sources, they are notable enough to be mentioned. Many high profile schools have some type of link to a controversy section, one you may be familiar with because it is in the Brisbane area is Anglican Church Grammar School.
- Also I did not accuse you of vandalism, merely stated it appears to be vandalism, as I have many highly risk vandalism pages on my watchlist and it is not uncommon to have defamatory unreferenced material put on some of these pages, or whole sections removed because it helps represent a NPOV. I am in no way connected with St. Joseph's Nudgee College (or any school in Brisbane for that matter), so I help maintain a NPOV on these GPS articles that often peacock each other to self-promote the schools.
- I hope I have cleared up any confusion. Cheers Talk 12:57, 18 November 2009 (UTC)]
- Thanks JRA.
- I concede that the item may well meet Wikipedia criteria, but I still don't see much merit in its inclusion (at least in that form, as I will explain).
- When I first read it, my reaction was that it appeared more like tabloid journalism than the quality of information I would expect to find in a reference encyclopaedia (as well as appearing somewhat vindictive). I have now read the Churchie section and note that those allegations were actually proven. Notwithstanding this, I arrived at a similar view as I did with the Nudgee section: is this what I expect to find in an encyclopaedia?
- I suggest that a more appropriate approach would be along the lines of "The school was the subject of some controversy in 2008, with allegations of past sexual abuse (etc.)", together with links to the source material.
- I trust you will accommodate my 'old fart' view of life!
- Regards
- Peter Peter Eedy (talk) 03:32, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
Fair cool, I shall edit accordingly
- Hello JRA -- I really had in mind significantly less information than you have provided in your recent edit, then relying on the referenced newspaper articles to flesh out the story (for those who really need to know more!).
- I stand by my original assertion that this degree of detail is not appropriate in an encyclopaedia, notwithstanding Wikipedia policies. However, I don't wish to continue to argue the merits of this matter if you feel so strongly about your approach.
- Regards
- Peter Peter Eedy (talk) 11:10, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
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Cheers for comments, happy to oblige to be honest I have an interest in football everywhere it’s played. I thought the Australian football categories needed a bit of a tidy up and came across article while categorising similar. Djln --Djln (talk) 12:11, 20 December 2009 (UTC)
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Lead section History of association football (soccer) in Brisbane, Queensland
I removed the Overview heading because it was actually a good
- Also see MOS:UNLINKYEARS. Years are generally not wikilinked. - Shiftchange (talk) 09:53, 22 January 2011 (UTC)]
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- Hello Ankit Maity - I have uploaded this image with a link to a new article I have created here User:Peter Eedy/Bardon Latrobe Junior Soccer Club - this article has been submitted and is pending review Regards Peter Eedy (talk) 07:33, 24 December 2011 (UTC)]
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- Thanks Bryce - and thanks for your efforts to make Wikipedia better Regards Peter Eedy (talk) 04:28, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
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