User talk:140.247.241.118

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[edit] Edit Summary Request

I have noted that you edit without an edit summary. Please do your best to always fill in the summary field. This is considered an important guideline in Wikipedia. Even a short summary is better than no summary. An edit summary is even more important if you delete any text; otherwise, people may think you're being sneaky or even vandalizing. Also, mentioning one change but not another one can be misleading to someone who finds the other one more important; add "and misc." to cover the other change(s). Thanks! -- Kukini 19:37, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Editing Concerns

  1. Please do not change claims on Hilo High School regarding its primacy as an old school. Please note that Lahainaluna High School is much older (and on Maui). --Kukini 19:37, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

My reply:

Please unblock me. This is a school account and a lot of people on my server use Wikipedia.

from Lahainaluna's webpage:

"In the fall of 1923, Lahainaluna became a public technical high school, admitting both girls and boys."

If we want to split hairs, Royal Elementary has the claim to being the oldest non-tertiary school in the state. Punahou was founded in 1841, Iolani in 1863, and McKinley as Honolulu School in 1865. I did know that Lahainalua existed in the 19th century, but it served as a seminary and teacher's training school for nearly the first century of its existence. Hilo High School was explicitly founded because of a lack of secondary education on the outer islands, which was true at the time. Students who wanted to continue their education would have to go to Oahu to do so.

I am not trying to claim that Hilo High School is any way better or older than any other school. It was, at the time, the second public high school in the state, and only high school in the outer islands. If you want to pick hairs about bias and such, check out Punahou's page. I was simply leaving the note as a strand for what will eventually be an article on the English Standard School System. Now, if you want to talk about post-colonial babble and who has/who should not/and who has and should not have a claim to what in the state, then that would certainly be a starting point.

  • This IP account is not now, nor has it ever been blocked. You might want to sign in, as clearly there are serious editors as well as less-serious editors editing from the IP address at the moment, as evidenced by this [1] diff. --Kukini 15:42, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
Once again, this user and the page in question were never blocked nor protected. Also, please avoid language such as "watch it," which can come across as threatening. Best, --Kukini 18:05, 13 January 2007 (UTC)