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Newington College

It goes without saying that admins are carefully watching edits related to this set of articles. There has been a disturbing amount of edit warring, quarrelling and assuming bad faith going on in edit summaries and on talk pages, as well as questionable additions to and removals from the articles in question. While the checkuser finding has come back fairly inconclusive, the behaviour of all parties is under scrutiny and breaches of policy will not be tolerated. If this warning is not heeded, blocks may well be the next stage. Orderinchaos 23:30, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

You're free to manage the content of your own talk page. Per WP:TALK#User_talk_pages: "Policy does not prohibit users from removing comments from their own talk pages, though archiving is preferred." Orderinchaos 00:54, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

He left my actual addition intact - to be honest I was being bold by reverting the now 2-month-old talk page message. If you don't feel it should be there, remove it. He would be unwise to revert a change to your talk page by yourself (whereas he could argue that as I removed it from your page, he was doing you a service by restoring it). If he does revert you on your own talk page, then certainly let me know then. Orderinchaos 02:39, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Please be more careful when editing Talk pages. Your recent edit removed two comments from other editors. --ElKevbo (talk) 15:10, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

Bob Baxt

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Notability of Peter Charley

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Proposed deletion of Wesley College, University of Sydney

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