User talk:RiJac

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July 2021

Please do not add or change content, as you did at Logan Park 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. —VeryRarelyStable 08:42, 18 July 2021 (UTC)

You are not an x pupil and the site is factually incorrect to remove Arch a principal that knew the name of 900 pupils and for a student from 1974 still to remember and respect Arch and sad his life was cut short - yes I could publish a school photo from 1974 - however I’m not playing games with you, you most likely don’t even live in Dunedin. Simply you are wrong ! Current pupils in my son’s class enjoyed learning of the 1st year ! RiJac (talk) 08:56, 18 July 2021 (UTC)

I attended Logan Park High School from 1991 to 1995. My mother taught biology there from the 1980s to the 2000s, for over half of which time she was HoD Science. I have younger family members still attending there. None of this gives me the slightest privilege in editing a Wikipedia article about the school. Anyone could come along claiming to be an ex-Logan Park pupil and making up any lie they wanted to about the place, and there are Wikipedia vandals who do exactly that.

For this reason, Wikipedia requires a published source to back up any factual claim. Let me repeat that statement with the key words emphasized: Wikipedia requires a published source to back up any factual claim. "I was there and saw it myself" is not good enough. Anyone could say that and be lying. That is why Wikipedia has core policies called Reliable Sources and No Original Research, both of which your edits on the LPHS article have persistently violated.

If the school was really founded in 1974 then there should be newspaper articles from the time that you could look up and cite, at the very least. But you need some published source on which to base your claims. This is not an optional extra. Without one your edits will simply continue to be reverted.

—VeryRarelyStable 09:24, 18 July 2021 (UTC)

Check with your mother if she started in 1980 although Arch had just lost his life she would know Arnold King previous Deputy principal and know what happened to Mr King over the loss of Arch. This should also confirm 1974. wiki tree has the story on Arch RiJac (talk) 09:43, 18 July 2021 (UTC)

My mother is not a published source. All factual claims must be based on published sources. —VeryRarelyStable 09:50, 18 July 2021 (UTC)

You'll notice Gadfium has once again put in the 1974 date, and this time it gets to stay. This is because Gadfium included a link to a published document, a brochure put out by the school. That's what is meant by a "published source". If you want to add information about Arch Wilson or other details, that is the sort of thing you need to be able to show us. —VeryRarelyStable 02:33, 19 July 2021 (UTC)