Talk:Wells International School

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March 2009

I removed several sentences that may have been perceived as advertising or promotion, as the article had been tagged as such. These deletions should be sufficient to prevent further tagging, particularly considering the similar wording in other articles regarding schools in Thailand that have *not* been tagged as self-promoting:

From Thai-Chinese International School: "The students are motivated, hardworking, flexible, and quick to adapt to new environments."

From Chiang Mai International School: "CMIS remains committed to its first priority of serving the educational needs of missionary families, while welcoming international children from a variety of backgrounds, cultures and religious beliefs."

From International School Bangkok: "The school buildings were destroyed, a number of children and parents died, and many more were left homeless. Rescuing the school and community became a massive endeavor. The International School Bangkok community raised funds and helped rebuild the school to create a learning environment well beyond the one that previously existed. At the same time, faculty and other associates recognized the need for long-term continuous support of the students." The "campus is nestled in the western style community of Nichada Thani, in Nonthaburi Province. Owing to the centralized location, many of the students walk or ride their bicycle or motor scooter to school."

From Lanna International School: "Lanna believes that the diversity of its student body is one of its greatest strengths, supporting the school's mission to prepare its students to be responsible world citizens." The article on Lanna also describes the mission statement and philosophy in highly idealized language with no reference to an outside source.

From the New International School of Thailand: "There are many classrooms, all with bright windows. The computer labs are well equipt [sic] with 2007 Microsoft and carts with tablets (a kind of laptop that can be controlled by a stylus) are used around the school. The canteen is double story with a variety of choices ranging from Asian to sandwiches to western. Other facilities include a well set out playground with shading and hopscotch and much loved four-square painted around a central oval. Just over the road is a well used tuck shop (not part of the school grounds) and a small cafe outside the school entrance with coffees and cakes."

From Ruamrudee International School: "The top 10 graduating seniors usually receive admission to Ivy League schools as well as elite liberal arts colleges; scholarships are often a part of the admissions package."

These statements most often do not possess citations, unlike the article on Wells. To say that statements such as "a much loved four-square," "the diversity of its student body is one of its greatest strengths," and "students are motivated, hardworking, flexible, and quick to adapt to new environments" are appropriate, yet cited claims about Wells International School are not, is utterly ludicrous. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kuruzovich (talk • contribs) 08:43, 13 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for noting your concerns. However, that there are other articles also written in advertisement-like manners is not reason to assume that their tones and styles are appropriate, whether or not they are currently tagged as needing attention. Clean-up tags serve to quickly identify issues needing attention so that they may be fixed, not to dictate what is or is not appropriate. Most of the above examples do indeed need fixing, and you should feel free to tag the issues, or, even better, correct them.

Re-reading this article as it is now, I'm convinced that the presentation is fairly neutral and doesn't warrant an explicit advertisement clean-up tag. I shall take the liberty of removing the contact information section, though, as Wikipedia is not a directory, and the direct quote from the school's mission statement would ideally be replaced by a neutral description of how those are applied in practice. --Paul_012 ^(talk) 10:33, 7 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]