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[edit] Welcome

Hello, 20176, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the Newcomers help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} on your user page, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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[edit] Wikipedia Trivia

Please connect comment more directly to Westfield, and find some link proving this (a Washington Post Article for example). While this sounds self explanatory, please add why three high school openings in three adjacant counties is important enough for trivia. It's good, just needs a little oomph. :)

Zidel333 03:53, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

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I see that you added some information to Potomac High School. I am planning on working on that site and use some of my own ideas since I started it. So if I make changes please do not interfear. Thank you. John R G 06:20, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] HTML tables and schools

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[edit] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Virginia_Scholastic_Hockey_League

Thanks for leaving my site alone. I do appreciate it. I found this site that you may be interested in. It seems Stone Bridge is pretty good in Ice Hockey. I added a category page to the site and I hope that it is a good one. Categories are not easy to make. John R G 17:36, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Also check out this link http://www.bracketmaker.com/tmenu.cfm?tid=146834&tclass=Tier%20II John R G 17:47, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

If you want to you can add the schools from Loudoun County to this table I made. Category:Northern Virginia Scholastic Hockey League Teams John R G 18:41, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] VHSL Districts

I noticed you are making many pages related to the VHSL sports districts. I already made the one for the AAA Peninsula District, so if you would like to add information to what I already have, feel free to do so. I think it is great that you are doing what this for Wikipedia. Let me know if I can be of help. --No1lakersfan 02:29, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for telling me about your project. If you would ever like me to help you with other topics, let me know. I will try to add a little more information about what I know about the districts here in Hampton Roads.
Yes I have heard about Stone Bridge High School, not just because they played Hampton High School in the State Football Title game, but also because I have friends in that area. I am trying to make pages for the schools in Newport News first, since I am from there. If I am able to make pages later for other areas, I will try. Again, thanks for all that you do. --No1lakersfan 12:54, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Reg ur edits to Virginia High School League

Reg ur edits to Virginia High School League, I can understand that ur edits were in good faith. However I'd suggest the related meta information (like pages being created as quickly as possible) be included in the talkpage of the article rather than in the article. Cheers. Happy Editing. -- Chez (Discuss / Email) • 03:56, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Heritage High School

The history section seems riddled with a lot of guesses and opinion without any citations to back up the statements. For example:

After its tough opening, Heritage has become a source of pride in central Loudoun County.

Who thinks this? Is there any proof of this? This seems to be very much prevalent throughout the section. Some of your additions seem relevant but have no sources to back them up. Heritage offers a very wide variety of Advanced Placement courses for its students. Exactly how many does Heritage offer? Is their offering substantially different than courses offered at other LCPS high schools? If you could place a number on it that would be very helpful. I've seen you have done substantial work on this and many other LCPS articles, so I will wait to delete statements I don't think are supported strongly enough to appear in the article. If you could point me in the direction of available sources to substantiate some of these claims I would be happy to add citations to the article. -- Johnny06man 23:43, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Template:Infobox School

You are suppose to use the templates from Template:Infobox School and not HTML. John R G 03:49, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Maggie L. Walker Governor's School for Government and International Studies

Hey -- I rv'd your edits to the MLWGSGIS Athletics section. It's not the smallest school in Group AAA per the VHSL directory -- John Marshall in Richmond is only the first school I found smaller, at 620 vs. 648. Regarding Group AAA's size guidelines, I understand that here in NoVA they're taken seriously. But in Richmond, just about everyone dogpiles into Group AAA for tradition and geography's sake -- all of the Richmond City schools play up despite being AA or even borderline A-size, as do several other schools in the Central Region. Given those facts, it seems fair to qualify the guideline as general. VT hawkeyetalk to me 03:03, 12 August 2006 (UTC) (GSGIS '97, now a 20191 resident)

[edit] Recent edits on Broad Run

20176, I noticed you're a contributor to the Broad Run HS article and would like your take on this. On 8/7/06 a user identified as Johnny06man made a number of changes to the article. Most of the information provided by this editor is factual, but I question the spin she/he placed on significant pieces of it, specifically commentary that certain school policies are perceived by students and staff as "a joke" (Spartan Read and FLEX). Johnny06man appears to be venturing into editorializing.

Also, what is hidden in the manner in which her/his edits were performed is the insertion of the statement into the Band History section that the band teacher Kelley was "falsely accused by a disgruntled freshman upset with her grade in his class" with no supporting evidence. All earlier versions stick to the published news articles. There certainly was an awful lot of speculation about the veracity of the accusations during that time, but publicly-known facts are scanty and do not support this assertion.

I'm suggesting we revert that section (Band History) back to the earlier version and remove any editorial comments. Unfortunately, there is no user page for Johnny06man, so there's no way to include her/him in this discussion. What do you think?

Jim Dunning

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[edit] Battlefield High School

Just to let you know that I've reverted your edits to Battlefield High School - the old version also contained the infobox, logo etc. so it looks just as professional. The version you had put in (aside from being a blatant violation of WP:COI as it was written by a school employee) isn't consistent with WP:NPOV, which is one of the three core content policies and is therefore non-negotiable. Cynical 14:21, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Don't worry too much about policies - if you make a mistake, people will generally point it out nicely. I've been two years and I still haven't read all of the damn stuff, hasn't done me any harm :P Cynical 11:47, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Request for comment on my campaign to become an administrator

Hello 20176, I hope that you are having a happy holiay season. I have recently been nominated to become an administrator here on Wikipedia. I am asking that since I have worked with you in the past that you stop by my nomination page and consider entering a vote, hopefully in support of my becoming an administrator.

  • Please feel free to communicate with me on my Talk page at User talk:No1lakersfan if you have any questions or reservations. Best wishes for a safe and happy holiday season. Thanks, --Willy No1lakersfan (Talk - Contribs) 00:00, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
Yes, the process was ended early because several people thought that I was not worthy enough yet for adminship. I will let you know when I am nominated again, but I will have to see how that goes because one of the faults against me (and the person nominating me) was that when we contacted people, we were supposedly asking for votes, which is not allowed. When the time comes again I will make sure that in some way you are aware of it. --Willy No1lakersfan (Talk - Contribs) 04:13, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Kudos re LCPS

Thanks, 20176, for all of your great and unflagging work on improving Loudoun County Public Schools articles. Your creation of and contributions to athletics info expecially adds important dimension and personality to each school's pages. Jim Dunning 15:36, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Broad Run citations help

20176, in building the Broad Run High School article you provided two key pieces of info:

Do you have the sources for these data? This is good info and if we can add the cites, the article will be fully Wikified.

Also, see Talk:Broad Run High School Div I & II Athletes; you seem to be into scholastic sports and might know if this is verifiable.

Thanks,

— Jim Dunning  talk  : 18:43, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for pointing that source out to me -- a lot fo good information there! And I appreciate your "rounding rationale. This helps quite a bit.
— Jim Dunning  talk  : 12:12, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] River Bend Middle School

I have proposed this article for deletion via an Articles for deletion discussion; please see the link in the article if you would like to contribute to the discussion. --Brianyoumans 01:53, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sterling Middle School

I have proposed this article (and in fact all the Loudoun County middle school articles) for deletion; please use the link at the top of the article if you would like to join the discussion. --Brianyoumans 20:30, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

20176, check out my message here — User talk:Brianyoumans#Multiple AfD:.5B.5BFarmwell Station Middle School.5D.5D et al. Multiple AfD Discussion.
— Jim Dunning  talk  :  04:25, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
20176, I see you have same concern re mass deletion of ms. I appreciate some of the points regarding notability that others have made, but I have a problem with the way it was done. Also, if the pages are all redirecting to LCPS, how do you restart an individual school's article if the notability issue is resolved. It bothers me that Brianyoumans is unable to answer that although he makes a career out of mass deleting artciles.
— Jim Dunning  talk  :  12:56, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re: School page deletions in NOVA

So it seems User:Brianyoumans is being difficult wiht lots of people this past week. His user page says he is a stay at home dad...*snicker* Maybe hes got problems at home and it makes him feel good to get pages deleted (Not a personal attack). All the FCPS elementary schools got merged into the fairfax county elementary schools, half the MS's got kept and the other half got no consensus kept. WTH? Anyway, on oyu comment about somthing fishy, yes, I agree. Now, I am a male, so when you bring your problems to me I will agree with you that there is a problem, but don't nessicarily expect an answer. So therefore, I say Yes, there is a problem. Now what are you going to do about it? I would bring the matter to an admins attention. Get together everyone who said keep on all the AfD discussions and get a petition? See resolving disputes theres a boatload of info there. Somthing is wrong here, and you have decided to be bold enought to fix it. Good work. KeepOnTruckin 02:26, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

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