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Welcome to the Old Bostonian Association Wiki
This Wiki is affiliated to the Old Bostonian Association: the alumni association of Boston Grammar School, Boston, England. The association is for former students and staff of the school, but this Wiki is for anyone with an interest in the school. You can find out more about the association on its web site.
Code of practice
The OBA Wiki subscribes to the MediaWiki and Wikipedia principle of "be bold", meaning that you should feel free to edit or create any article which you genuinely believe to be relevant to the wiki. Nevertheless, we will deal with any any user account created for the express purpose of posting only irrelevant information.
We will implement a number of measures in an attempt to minimise spam. Unfortunately some of these measures will cause some degree of inconvenience to legitimate users. As a legitimate user I hope you will understand and bear with this. Current measures in force are:
- Email address confirmation required before editing is permitted - Indefinite blocking of spamming users - Temporary blocking of IP addresses used by spamming users - Indefinite blocking of IP ranges repeatedly used by spamming users
Legitimate subscribers to the wiki have nothing to fear. If you start by making reasonable edits on the Wiki, or by setting up your "User:" page to describe yourself and your connection with Boston Grammar School, you can later start to be a bit more edgy and controversial. Any inappropriate edits may still be questioned, or even reverted, but indefinite blocking is unlikely unless your behaviour is extreme.