Talk:Long Beach Polytechnic High School

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Contents 1 Add citation or remove some alums without sources 2 Updating Page 3 updating page 4 athletic records 5 updating asb officers

[edit] Add citation or remove some alums without sources

According to http://www.nndb.com/edu/836/000080596/, only four of sixteen notables are confirmed alums. Would somebody be able to add citations for the other. Otherwise, I think they need to be removed. --Rob 17:07, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

NNDB is a beta website, and I've found it to be of limited usefulness. I would not use it for deleting any information from this or any other article. ^BlankVerse 08:27, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

If nndb.com is completely unreliable then we need new sources for *all* alums, or else remove all. Is that what your suggesting? I'm unclear. Currently, there's no sources for most alums here. I'm not suggesting nndb.com must be the source. I'm using nndb.com as a reason to *keep*, not as a reason to *delete*. --Rob 12:19, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

I'm not saying NNDB is completely unreliable, but that there are huge holes is their currently not that comprehensive database. I don't think there is any one-stop source for alumni. I've seen problems with birth cities and other data in IMDB, and IMDB rarely lists high schools. There is one source for baseball atheletes that is great and identifies high schools, but I've misplaced that link. ^BlankVerse 19:11, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

I'm not really sure if we even have a difference of opinion (or ever did). We agree nndb is just one of many sources of alumni. We agree nndb is incomplete. I've often had to go to multiple sources to verify a list of a school's alumni (actually, I always try multiple sources). If nndb didn't list any names, but all the names were listed elsewhere, then that would also be fine with me. But, one way or another, every name has to verified somehow. That's all I'm saying. Do you agree that there has to be *some* source for each alum; and that without a source, it must be removed (after all source attempts fail)? That's really my whole point here. Also, if you find that baseball alum source you mentioned, please add it to Wikipedia:WikiProject Schools#Notable alumni sources. Also, feel free to add any comment about the reliability or non-reliability of such alum sources there, if you think its worth noting. --Rob 19:24, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

As someone who lives in the Long Beach area, I am pretty sure that all of those individuals listed in LB Poly article went to school there. It may be awhile, however, before I can find the time to verify those names.

If you are going to start doing this for all the lists of alumni for schools, and especially for colleges and universities, you are undertake a huge task where the quality of most of those lists are much lower than the LB Poly list, and notability of many of those listed are certainly less than the LB Poly list. ^BlankVerse 07:59, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

I acknowledge there is some backing of some names here, and you've added greatly to that by adding that baseball link. So I'm not removing anybody this second. In fact, I haven't even had a chance to research each individual name, which is what I would need to do, before removing them. I'm not in some mad rush. As for the larger problem of unsourced alum lists, I agree its a widespread problem. I'm just one person, and I'll fix 'em where I can. I have removed a number of alumni from a number of lists. I've been looking through a *lot* of alum lists as I've standardiezed the section name to "Notable alumnni" (which is how I noticed this article), and periodically remove names (a number of cases are blatantly absurd). I didn't instantly remove them from this article, as there's some backing to some of them. But, ultimately, one day, not today, I do beleive all assertions of notable alumni do require some published references at some point. Of course, in an ideal situation, info would be added with sources in the first place. --Rob 15:18, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

Since you are doing the research anyway, there is one thing that you could add to the lists that would take care of something that really bothers me about many of them, and that is the fact that often the lists have no annotations, but are just lists of names. When I see a list, I often have no idea of who Joe Schmoo is, so it would be very helpful to see the listing changed to Joe Schmoo, CEO of XYZ Corp.. ^BlankVerse 06:57, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

I agree, that bugs me too. When I'm making or updating alumni lists (such as adding footnotes) I like to add that (if I remeber). I'm often wordier than your example, like "Joe Schmoo (graduated 1990) - CEO and founder of XYZ Corp the largest maker of ABC in Country D." Aside from being informative, they're also a great way of distinguishing real notables, from high school buddy lists. --Rob 08:59, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

What has surprised me is that it is private schools or exclusive colleges that seem to get more of the buddy list entries than public schools. ^BlankVerse 09:56, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Updating Page

Anyone who was a student at Long Beach Poly during the time Neil W. Phillips was our principal called him Big Daddy. Even his daughter, Gale who was class of 1964 occasionally called him by that name.

In addition to Giving the school the motto, "Home of Scholars and Champions," in his opening day presentation in an assembly for incoming students, he reminded us all that, "There are only two types of people in Long Beach, those who went to Poly, and those who wished they did."

[edit] updating page

The new student leaders are: ASB PRESIDENT: Nicholas Cheung ASB Vice President: Ngoc Nguyen ASB Secretary: Jezreel Apelar

and the motto is "Home of Scholars, Champions and Musicians"

Mr. Jackrabbit Pageant started in 1996 with only male contestants. The Pageant was held in the gym.

there are more changes to the jackrabbit pageant. ill update soon

-Nicholas Cheung ASB President

[edit] athletic records

anyone researching athletic records? such as the 10 consecutive moore league, 3 state, and 5 CIF championships of Poly's cross country team in the last decade? and that's just cross country, the football and basketball stats must be mind-boggling.

[edit] updating asb officers

ASB:

Presidnet: Nicholas Cheung Vice President : Ngoc Nguyen Secretary: Jezreel Apelar

in your article, you have ngoc as the secretary and jez as the vice president.