Talk:Arlington High School (Arlington Heights, Illinois)
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[edit] Open discussion on adding Arlingtoncards.com
Arlingtoncards.com was recently deleted as a 'spammy link' Arlingtoncards.com is not a spam website. the high school content of Arlingtoncards.com has little or no advertising banners on its pages. It is surprising to me that there is a request to close this page to any more external links due to persistent spamming, since there have hardly been any in its history back to 2005. My recent attempt to return the Arlingtoncards.com links resulted in a conflict with another user and a block. That block has been released. In the discussion that occurred with Alphachimp on User talk:T54 Alphachimp made the following comments regarding the spam accusation:
(1) From a purely cursory glance, it'd appear that arligntoncards.com would be ok to include
(2) Although I don't particularly agree with accusing you of spamming, you were linking to a blog and a forum.
I did not link to the forum and since the blog is not 'well known' I do not plan to try to link to the blog. However, a general link to Arlingtoncards.com and deep links to a homecoming page, a reunion page and the archives section is reasonable.
--T54 06:36, 28 January 2007 (UTC)T54
- In what way would those links be relevant to a general encyclopedia reading audience? I've looked through the site and it doesn't seem to contain any real encyclopedic information. Without knowing exactly what you'd like to link to it's hard to comment specifically. the Arlingtoncard links that were removed from the page most recently were certainly inappropriate. More than one link to any particular site is generally inappropriate. A reunion page sounds completely inappropriate on the face, though I couldn't find it on the site so I'm not clear on exactly what it is. Ditto with a homecoming page. An archive section could potentially be appropriate, but having looked through the Arlingtoncards.com site I can't find anything substantial that would fit that description for the highschool. The Arlingtoncards site looks like it might be interesting to people who lived in the area or have a personal connection, but it doesn't seem particularly deep, rigorously researched (at least in the sense necessary for an encyclopedia) or well presented. -- Siobhan Hansa 13:37, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
Archives page: [Archives Button on front page] Reunion Info: [Reunions text link on front page] Famous Alumni [Hall of Fame button on front page] Homecoming Stats [Homecoming Stats] -- I'll admit that one is a little hard to find/deep linked ... don't want to bore you with explanation/directions.
Some of these pages are showing their age and due for some freshening up as this part of the website was completed in 2001 ... and a lot has happened to the web since then.
Thanks, Siobhan Hansa, for your comments. I appreciate your time and energy and 'free advice'.
--T54 02:02, 29 January 2007 (UTC)T54
- Ah, you must have thought me obtuse. I didn't realize the archive and hall of fame links from the front page were just for the high school - I thought the site was concerned with the town as a whole and I was looking for a specific schools section. I still can't see the reunion link on the front page, I must be skipping over it. Thanks for providing the direct links.
- The reunions link doesn't seem appropriate - as far as I can tell (with a brief look) it's simply a list of the reunion dates linked to the announcements. There's nothing encyclopedic about that. The same seems to be the case for the homecoming page - a list of who was homecoming King/Queen and what the football game score was hardly seems like information that impacts the world.
- The commercial nature of the hall of fame really bothers me. The first name I clicked on was to a page inducing me to buy albums by the person. I don't think that's at all appropriate for a link from here. In any case, we'd be better off building a list of notable ex-students in this article and wikilinking to their Wikipedia articles.
- The archive section seems to be almost entirely photos. Photos can be a useful, but I'm not sure, given the downsides of the site, that that is enough. I'd rather see photos uploaded to Wikimedia Commons so that we are actually building a GFDL encyclopedia. -- Siobhan Hansa 20:49, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
No, I don't think you were obtuse ... I always check to see if the design is to blame when there is the type of failure to find something as you described. Thanks for the comments. Sounds like you have good ideas ...
--T54 05:31, 30 January 2007 (UTC)T54
