User talk:Paulsnorman

wey Valley school and Sports College

The wey Valley school and Sports College page has been deliberately edited to give misleading, negative and factually inaccurate information about the school with the sole aim of impacting on the school's improving reputation.

The previous editors have tried to make it appear factual, but through omission, paraphrasing and direction attempt to mislead and distort the facts about the school whilst maintain a veneer of plausibility.

Staff and students at Wey Valley and their wider community do not deserve these attacks.

If those who are responsible feel that they have a point it would be far more meaningful to confront the school with it directly and under a real name, rather than maintaining anonymity through wikipedia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Paulsnorman (talk • contribs) — Paulsnorman (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.

Conflict of interest

If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Wey Valley School and Sports College, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:

1. editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
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Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. --Orange Mike | Talk 02:02, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

I repeat, "For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations." If you have different information from that in the article, post that information to the article's talk page with proper citations to reliable sources (i.e., not school internal documents or other non-published data) and ask that it be used by an editor without your obvious COI. --Orange Mike | Talk 14:34, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

Because I don't see any serious promotional or biased motivation in your edits, I have restored your edits to Wey Valley School and Sports College. You are free to contribute to the article (such as adding sourced statistics and references), and as an editor with a conflict of interest, the more the better. Your discussion page explanations seem perfectly reasonable, but still, make sure you understand the above warning before editing further. Swarm^(Talk) 06:25, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

I'm glad this has been straightened out. Perhaps you could start working on some other Wey-valley related articles now? --Orange Mike | Talk 18:02, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

(I wish every editor with a conflict of interest would behave like this guy. Choyoołʼįįhí:Seb az86556 ^{> haneʼ} 11:29, 11 February 2010 (UTC))

The Will Mackaness Trust

The trust was set up following the untimely death of the former Head Boy (2007-2008) of The Wey Valley School and Sports College, Will Mackaness.

Will was an avid sportsman who, however, took a full and active part in all aspects of school life, despite undergoing intensive treatment for the most aggressive form of brain tumour.

One of Will’s passions was water sports especially windsurfing. It is for this reason that the trust has been set up to help give more water sport opportunities to our pupils, so they can experience the fun and exhilaration of windsurfing, sailing, canoeing and kayaking for themselves. Water sports are such an expensive but immensely enjoyable activity and the trust aims to help support pupils who want to take it up or wish to progress further.

A number of activities have taken place since the start of the Trust with local people undertaking fund raising activity on its behalf. This includes a sponsored cycle ride and long serving teacher, Clive Burgess, requesting that money be given to the trust on his retirement. --Paulsnorman (talk) 20:15, 19 June 2010 (UTC)