User talk:Drotoplasm

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May 2019[edit]

Please do not add commentary, your own point of view, or your own personal analysis to Wikipedia articles, as you did to Normanhurst Boys' High School. Doing so violates Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy and breaches the formal tone expected in an encyclopedia. Please discuss your additions on the talk page. Repeated additions of unsourced or inadequately sourced promotional material on this school article have become a significant problem. MPS1992 (talk) 01:15, 27 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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This article is a flippin mess. Please work with the other editors on the talk page to form a decent neutral article. This isn't the school's page on Wikipedia, it's an encyclopedia article about the school. You're change may be an improvement; I don't know. Please work with the editors at the talk page. My only concern is that this article get worked out properly. That way is to discuss on the talk page. Discuss your change with the other editors on the article talk page. That discussion will determine whether or not your changes stay. Thanks. John from Idegon (talk) 02:27, 29 May 2019 (UTC) co-coordinator, Wikiproject Schools[reply]

June 2019[edit]

Please do not add or change content, as you did at Normanhurst Boys' High School, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Further, you removed useful wikilinks and introduced WP:MOS errors. John from Idegon (talk) 01:13, 24 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

July 2019[edit]

Please do not add or change content, as you did at Normanhurst Boys' High School, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. Archer1234 (talk) 03:38, 1 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Normanhurst talk page[edit]

Please indent properly. Add one more leading colon than the previous message. WP:ILIKEIT is never a valid argument. If you do not have reasons based in policies and guidelines, or in fact based matters, reliable sources, please stop making arguments. Everyone here is a volunteer and it is disruptive for you to continually waste other volunteers' time. What you (or I, or even Jimbo) thinks or likes is totally irrelevant. The content in the notable alumni section is not in any way contentious. There is just one editor who won't listen and learn and refuses to drop the STICK. I'll leave it to you to figure out who that might be. Now we do have a policy called Ignore all rules, but you'll need a consensus to invoke that, and to get a consensus, you'll need to make some logical arguments, not just continually saying that you want it like that. The way you are proceeding on the article at hand is becoming disruptive. Please take some time to read and understand the many links (blue words) you've been provided. It might be a good idea for you to step away and read other articles and or edit in another subject area for a few days. I'm guessing you are a student at this school and if so, I hope you realize that doesn't give you any more say than other editors. It also means that if you continue to be disruptive by making repeated empty arguments on every facet of the article, you can be declared a WP:COI editor which could lead to you being prohibited from editing this school article. No one wants that to happen. Please study the information you've been given, and if you do not understand it, I'll leave you a link to a place you can ask for help. John from Idegon (talk) 20:45, 3 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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February 2020[edit]

Please stop adding unsourced or poorly sourced content, as you did on Normanhurst Boys' High School. This violates Wikipedia's policy on verifiability. If you continue to do so, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. John from Idegon (talk) 08:17, 17 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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