Daveeeooo

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although we invite everyone to contribute constructively to our encyclopedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Manhasset High School, was not constructive and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you.Greswik 14:26, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

July 2007

Welcome, and thank you for your attempt to lighten up Wikipedia. However, this is an encyclopedia and the articles are intended to be serious, so please don't make joke edits, as you did to Manhasset High School. Readers looking for serious articles will not find them amusing. If you'd like to experiment with editing, try the sandbox, where you can write (almost) whatever you want. Thank you. Djlayton4 | talk | contribs 14:27, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

Manhasset High School

While I appreciate your frustration at the material removed from the Manhasset High School, Wikipedia policy requires that reliable and verifiable sources must be added to establish information added to any article. If you have such sources from newspapers, magazines or books about the claims you have placed in the article, I would be more than happy to help you add them. If not, they will be removed in accordance with Wikipedia policy, and such additions may be treated as vandalism. Alansohn 19:16, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

Schoolcruft

Oh, how clever. You vandalized my talk page, and then didn't sign your work, so I couldn't find out who did it. Not a problem; keep studying and you'll learn how to good things also. As for inserting words that are true in an article, WP:SCHOOLCRUFT will help you understand that there's a lot more to it than that. To learn more, read the articles to which that one links. Wikipedia is a little like writing an assigned essay for school, only tougher. If you wish, you can write things in your own talk page (this one) and ask me or others to say what's right or wrong with it. At least it won't be deleted by other people for not meeting standards, or anyway not by experienced users who know better. Recently a paragraph I wrote vanished from New York congestion pricing and indeed it wasn't good enough, so it doesn't bother me. Lesson learned. Jim.henderson 00:17, 11 July 2007 (UTC)