User talk:Luke213

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Longcroft School and Performing Arts College

Please refrain from adding nonsense to Wikipedia, as you did to Longcroft School and Performing Arts College. It is considered vandalism. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. Do not waste our time with fake db-attack tags. -- Netsnipe ► 12:11, 10 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I am one of the ICT Technicians at the school, and have had to edit the article. If you would look at the Article history you will see that some pupils, who we have identified and excluded from school added obscene remarks about the school and headteacher. I have been asked by the network manager and Headteacher to get the article removed and all history deleted due to the comments made. Regards, Luke. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Luke213 (talk • contribs) 13:01, October 10, 2006 (UTC)

Apologies for the brashness, but I have to deal with a few dozen of vandals a day = ). Just because an article is often vandalised, that is not grounds for instant removal from the encyclopedia. Please follow the correct procedures as stated at Wikipedia:Contact us/Article problem/Delete or undelete. Thank you. -- Netsnipe ► 13:15, 10 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Netsnipe indicated that he was going home from uni, so I'm going to try to help you. I don't think that the article qualifies for deletion (as it is not an article about you or the headmaster specifically, but the school); nor does it qualify for protection, as it isn't targeted by vandals very frequently. What I can do is add the page to my watchlist and be sure to revert any vandalism that comes along. Repeat vandals will be blocked from editing. If the situation escalates, we can then consider whether protecting the article is the best choice. As for e-mailing the history, that's not necessary: you can see every edit ever made to the article by checking its history. You can start with the creation of the article here and browse through the various edits by clicking "Newer edit". If you have any further questions, please leave a message on my talk page and sign your posts by adding ~~~~. Cheers. -- Merope ^Talk 14:14, 10 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

My apologies! I misunderstood. I deleted the personal attacks from the page history. Cheers. -- Merope ^Talk 14:49, 10 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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