Talk:Sydney Secondary College Balmain Campus

message: Guys, thanks heaps for all the recent contributions to this article, but I have to point out that a lot of the recent edits have been non-encyclopedic. We are not writing to persuade students to enroll at this school; we are writing an informative, neutral entry into an encyclopedia. 
The sections that I think are in need of attention are listed here:
* Teachers: It goes without saying that "Teachers are dedicated to preparing students for success - blah blah". Also The way this section is written violates NPOV. To be honest I think we just dont need this section considering that there is no documented proof that teachers at Balmain Campus are any more noteable than teachers at other schools.
* Trivia Night: Remember we are not trying to write a newspaper, or an article for a school newsletter. I really don't think this is all that relevant enough to be included in a wikipedia entry for a school. However, if you really do think that this information is important I suggest you at least put it under a new section "School Traditions" or something along those lines.
* College Drama Night: Same as above, we are not trying to write a newspaper!
* Canteen: This section is not really needed at this stage of the article's early development. I reckon we should wait until this article is at least at "start class" level before expanding on the school canteen. Also this section is not written at an encylopedic standard (and most probably violates NPOV).
* Changes made in 2007: This section belongs at the bottom of the article.
It might help you guys out a bit if you check out these pages, Wikipedia:Manual of Style, Help:Starting a new page just so we can raise the standard up a little.
Hopefully we'll be able to change this over the next few weeks and get this article into better shape (I havent been doing much lately I've been really busy, basicley yr 11 sucks haha). But those matters aside, thanks again for the recent attention to this article, keep up the hard work. ;D
Jason McConnell-Leech 05:06, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: RECENT ADDITIONS

message: I attend this school and have done most of the editing so sorry if I wrote it like a newspaper im kinda new to this. Well there has been alot of vandalism to this page recently and I know who the people are that are doing this but they wont stop no matter what I tell them so we need to block those IPs temporarily. so can anyone help with that?RiseDarthVader 06:59, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You can't exactly block someone just like that.  My recommendation is to keep up the hard work, properly warn the vandals on their talk pages, and head over to WP:AIV if the issue continues. Jmlk17 08:40, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah don't worry, I'll semi-lock the page so those IP's cant edit it anymore. And also thanks again for your attention to this page, even if it is written like a newspaper a bit, I can fix it so it sounds better haha. Jason McConnell-Leech 08:41, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Note, this is not the best way to go about this issue. Jmlk17 08:48, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah but it's the best short term fix, and we simply do not have enough time to bother with all this vandalism. Thus I will temporarily semi-protect this article untill we can do something else to stop the vandalism.Jason McConnell-Leech 08:53, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not sure you understand.  Simply adding the template does nothing.  You must request the protection at WP:RFPP first. Jmlk17 08:57, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes I've done that, but even though the tag wont do anything until the request had been accepted, I think that having it there at the top of the page will hopefuly still deter some vandalism. I suppose if you seriously object to that we dont have to do it, but it's the best we can do until we recieve semi-protect approval.Jason McConnell-Leech 09:05, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

text: Yeah I'm going to report him and the other guy, considering this has not been the first time they have vandilised this page, they will hopefully get banned.Jason McConnell-Leech 11:11, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  We need help stopping vandalism 

message: This tag is no longer needed, the offending sections have been removed.Jason McConnell-Leech 08:54, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Advertisement Tag

message: I'm not sure that this section is all necessary at this point; it isn't extreamly noteable.. and if we are going to include this information in this article it should be under a subsection entitled "Welfare" or something like that.Jason McConnell-Leech 11:04, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Nice one. Jason McConnell-Leech 11:34, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Breakfast Club

message: 
I propose the removal of this tag as this article no longer "Does not cite any refrences or sources". (Come to think of it, even when the tag was first instituted there were at least two or three citations)
Any objections?
Jason McConnell-Leech 12:59, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That tag is indeed inaccurate, however some sections of the article still need citations so I have replaced it with a  instead. Camaron1 | Chris 13:13, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Unrefrenced Tag

message: This is a really good idea. Although it may need a few minor touch-ups, this section will contribute well to the article. Thumbs up
Jason McConnell-Leech 04:10, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Facilities

message: Okay, I've written to the school requestion some documentation regarding the school's history, and they've kindly replied, saying that the will try to arrange to have some information sent. So get ready for a big write-up of a "History" section sometime soon. This will probably be the most prominent section of this article (as it is with most Wikipedia school articles) so hopefully we can get a lot of input! 
Jason McConnell-Leech 07:51, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: History

message: A strong Start class article which I would consider close to a B class, also has Mid importance due to the film festival. To improve this article needs full references for all its sections and more in-depth information on the topics that the article covers such as "Curriculum". Camaron1 | Chris 13:28, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment

message: Notable Alumni
* Alex Lloyd (singer-songwriter)
* Karen Girling (- Librarian)
* Jodi Cramond (- Teacher)
The only person there I have heard of is Alex Lloyd the rest I have never heard. I do not see any reason to put them there unless we have some information on them. RiseDarthVader 13:06, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Notable Alumni