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Hello. I've just removed your changes to several biographical articles relating to their school, and ought to explain why. First, the formatting. On Wikipedia, we write in plain sentences, without unnatural formatting such as bold or italics except in very specific circumstances. The name of someone's school isn't one of those circumstances. Second, and more important, we aren't supposed to add information without backing it up with a reference to a reliable published source to verify the info. This is particularly important with biographies of living persons.

Please feel free to re-add the school info to any article, but please accompany it with a reference to a published source, add it somewhere appropriate in the prose (as you did at Chuba Akpom) and don't add content that isn't backed up by your source (like Mr Akpom visitng the school regularly and being an exceptional role model: that may well be true, but we can't say so unless published sources confirm it). Thanks, Struway2 (talk) 19:06, 12 April 2014 (UTC)Reply

I am relatively new to editing Wiki and it is not always as easy as it seems! I have ammended Tim Campbell again - this time including a reference, which took some messing to get the format correct. I hope that this kind of referencing proves to be acceptable.

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Don't know if you give advice but I keep an eye on this page, as it is well used by many to find out about our school and I have had to remove potentially libelous comments about staff. Is it possible to block or report an IP address? PaulHalliwell (talk) 20:08, 12 April 2014 (UTC)Reply

Your addition to Campbell is fine, though I've moved it to the personal section rather than the introduction.
If you have questions about editing Wikipedia, the people at The Teahouse are good at answering them or offering advice: just click this link and then click on "Ask a question". As you're clearly involved with St Bonaventure's School, it might be an idea if you had a read of this page, which offers advice to people who may be editing articles about something with which they have a close connection. hope this helps, cheers, Struway2 (talk) 20:50, 12 April 2014 (UTC)Reply

Thanks Will read. I learned my lesson when I spent ages updating the page and had it all removed. Trying to remain as objective as possible - giving just facts this time. PaulHalliwell (talk) 20:57, 12 April 2014 (UTC)Reply

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  Hello, I'm Denisarona. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, St Francis Xavier's College, Liverpool, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Denisarona (talk) 12:07, 28 April 2019 (UTC)Reply