User talk:G N Frykman

Welcome!

Hello, G N Frykman, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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Writing about subjects that are close to home

Welcome to Wikipedia, Mr Frykman. A word of warning to the wise: Be very very careful when writing about subjects that are close to home, such as onesself, one's relatives, or the school that one works/worked for. (See Wikipedia:List of bad article ideas.) There are rules about verifiability and no original research here (in addition to the infamous neutral point of view). Wikipedia editors don't just take people's words for things. (-: When I wrote Sam Pollard I made sure that every single sentence of the article can be verified from one, or more, of the sources cited. I wrote the article based entirely upon what the sources said, and didn't use any of my personal or firsthand knowledge. I highly recommend that as an approach. Jonathan de Boyne Pollard (talk · contribs) 22:50, 17 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Furthermore, consider Mora Clocks. Thousands of hoax articles are added to Wikipedia every week. And they are little different in form to this. There is nothing in the article to inform the reader, and indeed other editors, that this isn't simply more of the same. Your article is functionally indistinguishable from a hoax. Whereas if one cites sources, both readers and editors can check that is isn't.
Always cite sources. Don't worry about getting the form exactly correct, but do worry about making your articles verifiable. Jonathan de Boyne Pollard (talk · contribs) 00:22, 18 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Warwick School

The image of the school is from the school's web site, and is neither in the public domain nor released under a free copyright licence. It would be good if we could have one or two images that both (a) were either in the public domain or GFDL licensed and (b) showed more of the school. Could you persuade someone to take a decent photograph of the whole school from the air and donate it to the public domain/release it under the GFDL? Jonathan de Boyne Pollard (talk · contribs) 22:50, 17 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Mr Stooke

Hello there Gervald, Don't you remember me, Mr Stook, a former teacher there at Warwick school. Why did you undo my changes to the Wikipedia page on Warwick School, dismissing it as vandalism. I'll have you know, I know a lot more about the history of the school than most of its current teachers, and even you I dare-say.

Silly boy. You can't even spell "Stooke". Only contribute to my user page if you have something useful to say.G N Frykman 17:33, 21 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]