Talk:Emmanuel College, Gold Coast

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Edit warring re litigation

Now that the page protection has expired, an IP registered to Australia has resumed their slow edit war to restore unreferenced "information" about their litigation with the school. This extraordinarily minor dispute concerning the school charging an extra fee for supplying duplicate report cards in the case of divorced or separated parents has received zero coverage in reliable independent sources. The litigant admits/claims on their own website that the school has won an order prohibiting him from publishing court documents related to the case. Even if they were available, this use of primary sources is not permitted here in the absence of any independent coverage of this case. Please stop trying to use Wikipedia as a soapbox for your non-notable litigation. It is contrary to our core policies. Further background to this is at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive800#Emmanuel College (Queensland). – Voceditenore (talk) 06:36, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Edit request on 3 July 2013

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/solicitor-chad-rowe-is-suing-emmanuel-college-in-a-dispute-over-school-fees-for-his-young-daughter/story-fnihsrf2-1226673329358 123.243.172.197 (talk) 05:06, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Not done: please be more specific about what needs to be changed. RudolfRed (talk) 05:57, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

I assume the editor wants to re-add the previously deleted information about this litigation, this time referenced to the above article in the regional paper dated today (July 3, 2013). He had previously edit-warred to add information about his previous lawsuits (referenced solely to the litigant's web site) after being reverted by multiple editors. In fact, an editor with the same name as the litigant [1] and several IPs have been at this since last March. This newspaper article is basically about a dispute between a divorced couple and child support issues, and only tangentially about the school. The mother wants to keep the child there, the father doesn't because he says he cannot afford his half of the school fees. The school says it requires the agreement of both parents to have the child taken out the school. As the article notes, this case is the latest in a string of unsuccessful lawsuits he has tried to bring against the school (and insert into Wikipedia). It has not even been to court, there is no decision, and there is no national coverage of this non-notable event. It doesn't belong in this article about the school itself, and as another editor pointed out at ANI, it embarrasses the litigant's ex-wife and his child (and the litigant himself), rather than the school. I'm not going to add it. Voceditenore (talk) 06:54, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Promotionalism and poor referencing

I have just gone through this article copyediting quite blatant promotional language, fixing the numerous broken links, clarifying what the sources actually are, indicating where the citation given fails to verify the claim made, and marking other assertions which require verification. I have also tagged it for relying too closely on sources which are not independent of the school.

This article has quite clearly been extensively edited by one or more editors with a close association to the school. A few examples:

• "featuring the latest equipment and IT requirements"
• "Extensive landscaping surrounding the new building was undertaken to complement the already beautiful gardens and play areas on campus."
• "Visual Art students visit exhibitions, enjoy artist-in-residence opportunities and they exhibit their own excellent works."
• "This is an outstanding overall achievement."
• We are very proud of our students for reaching these impressive levels and proud of our teachers for nurturing the potential of these students." (It's also blatant copyvio from the school's 2012 report)
• "The Emmanuel Journey Program provides specific and intentional opportunities for students to learn and practice values and virtues that form part of the College ethos. The program exposes students to the cumulative effect of years of practice of the virtues, namely, Faith, Hope, Compassion, Justice, Self-Control, Courage, Integrity and Wisdom." (It's also blatant copyvio from the school's self-authored entry in privateschoolsdirectory.com.au.)

I strongly suggest that these editors a. declare their conflict of interest, b. avoid editing the article directly, and c. thoroughly familiarize themselves with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines on editing with a conflict of interest, neutral point of view, and writing school articles. Voceditenore (talk) 09:37, 23 July 2018 (UTC)

Copyright problem removed

Prior content in this article duplicated one or more previously published sources. The material was copied from: http://docplayer.net/12853790-Government-faith-hope-justice-self-control-courage-integrity-wisdom.html and https://www.privateschoolsdirectory.com.au/school_print.php?school=5007. Copied or closely paraphrased material has been rewritten or removed and must not be restored, unless it is duly released under a compatible license. (For more information, please see "using copyrighted works from others" if you are not the copyright holder of this material, or "donating copyrighted materials" if you are.)

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