User talk:ThinkingInBinary
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Hello, world! Welcome to ThinkingInBinary's talk page!
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Hi ThinkingInBinary, sorry that I didn't explain things better, I didn't realize you were a new editor. If you have any questions about the policies feel free to drop by my talk page and we can discuss things in more detail. Hope I haven't gotten off on the wrong foot. I would love to work with you to improve the article (once the inappropriate content has been removed). Kaldari 19:48, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
- One thing you could add to the article is information about any notable alumni that have attended the school, as this is usually easy to verify from sites about the famous person. Has the school ever had any championship sports teams or won any major awards? Anything that makes the school unique would be useful to have in the article (assuming of course, its verifiable). Kaldari 23:16, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
- BTW, it may be useful to know that there is a long listory of controversy on Wikipedia surrounding school articles. In the old days, most articles on schools (besides colleges) were just deleted unless they were quite famous, as most people did not think they belonged in an encyclopedia. Gradually, however, Wikipedia has become more inclusionist and the tolerance for school articles is actually quite high now. School articles are still something of a sore spot, however, as few school articles are well written or completely up to Wikipedia guidelines as they tend to be written by people associated with the schools rather than impartial 3rd party editors. There are exceptions, however. Check out Caulfield Grammar School for a good template to go by. This article uses footnotes and references to make things easy to verify. It also does a good job of avoiding the gossipy tone that afflicts many school articles. I realize that the verifiability requirement is going to limit your article to mostly information from the official school website, which is probably not that interesting to students, but that's the only way that other editors (and readers) can be sure the information is factual. If you think something at the school is worth putting in, but isn't verifiable, see if you can get the webmaster at the school to add it to the site, or see if you can get a local reporter to write a story about it. Kaldari 23:40, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
