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[edit] Welcome!

Welcome to Wikipedia. Nice job revising Committee of the Whole--keep up the good work!

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jengod 22:37, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Rosenberger thanks

Muchos gracias for adding that infobox to my Rosenberger stub. You definitely moved the article along -- I hadn't had time to get around to that. Thanks much.

GGreeneVa 14:47, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

  • You're quite welcome. I've been trying to add an infobox to a lot of the supreme court cases without them. I'm not too familar with a lot of the citations and stuff, but I think the box does help breakdown all the really important facts into one place. A bit easier on my eyes ;) -- Johnny06man 14:50, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: HHS article

Thanks for getting to me about that. I went to Stone Bridge and I live in the area that was affected by the move and my little sister went to Heritage after attending SB for a couple of years; she didn't like it very much, but others I know who went there the first couple years didn't like it either because of the very small junior class. While I was in high school before Stone Bridge opened, I remembered teachers handing out pamphlets about boundary changes which showed my neighborhood in the Stone Bridge zone, and the Loudoun County High zone while the school board was arguing about which neighborhoods would be affected. Unfortunately, I don't have those anymore because that happened a long time ago.

As for actual numbers and references, the Web Archive of LCPS's site may show some of these boundaries and articles about that. The Loudoun Times Mirror is another source out there that may have stuff about the opening. The VA Dept of Education's site gives numbers about enrollment figures at 9/30 of every school year, and LCPS sometimes adjusts that as the school year progresses. The statement I wrote about the "racial achievement" gap showed on a middle school's site (either Sterling or Simpson Middle School's site, but Heritage was mentioned there).

As for my comments on the general mood of the school, now that I'm reading it a day or two later, it is a let down on them. I'll delete those. Thanks for offering to help. I'll give you more sites/info for sources on the school.

20176

No problem. I myself just graduated from Broad Run so I do have a bit of interest in the LCPS articles. I went ahead and rewrote some of the history section to remove biased statements and add citations. I removed the racial achievement gap statement because based on the 2005 AYP report for the school, I didn't see the gap narrowing. It still seems pretty large and consistent with the rest of the county. What data did the middle school sites base this claim on? -- Johnny06man 13:39, 7 August 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Recent Broad Run edits

Some good contribs on Loudoun schools (thanks). I have a concern though about some of your recent edits for BRHS. Are you editorializing too much about Spartan Read and FLEX? I agree that there are some teachers that do not adhere strictly to the policy guidelines and certainly students and teachers have a variety of opinions about this (both about the policy and the divergences). Conversely, though, there are quite a few instructors that do utilize the time as outlined in the policies, and both teachers and administrators (and even some parents) see some benefits from these programs. An argument could be offered that these practices are "not a joke", effectively counter-balancing your published assessment.

Also, what is your supporting source for the Band History section statement that Kelley was "falsely accused by a disgruntled freshman upset with her grade in his class"? I recall the voluminous speculation at the time about the accusation's veracity, but the publicly-known facts about the case do not appear to support the false accusation assertion. Based on the cited news sources, perhaps this statement should be emended? Let me know what you think? Again, thanks for your contributions and keep adding them. Jim Dunning 15:53, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

  • Excellent work on all the legal cases, too! Jim Dunning
Looking back on my edits, I can understand what you are saying. Perhaps you can revise that section to properly balance the two viewpoints? I will agree with you that many teachers support the program, but at the same time I know a good deal of teachers along with many students feel differently. I would just like both points to be expressed in the article.
As for the band history section and the false accusation statement, I also agree it does not sound very neutral. But I do stand by the main point of the statement. My sister was involved in this scandal (friends with the accusers) and was witness to the original accusation. Basically what happened was the freshman girl was upset with her grade and falsely confessed to several students that she had been sexually abused by Kelley. It was only coincidence that one of the students who heard the confession actually was abused, along with another student. Hence, there were originally 3 accusations, but Kelley was only charged with 2 of them. The freshman involved was suspended for I think a week for lying to the administrators. Unfortunately because of privacy rules protecting the freshman, this information was never published by a news organization, hence I have no way of providing a citation for this fact. I would like to find a way to keep this information in the article because I think it is important, but I will understand if it needs to be removed. --Johnny06man 16:58, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
Your re-edits look great and I think you effectively make the points you want for Flex and Spartan Read. As for the other, I understand your position, however, since there's no supporting public record of the events leading to the charges readers may question the strength of your version. You may want to clarify that while the intitial accusation was bogus, the act of making it caused two real victims to come forth. Otherwise it appears those couple sentences are self-contradictory. How about, "Kelley was only caught after being falsely accused by a disgruntled freshman upset with her grade in his class. Although this initial accusation was bogus, it ironically prompted two actual victims to come forth with similar allegations. Director of the band program since 1997, parents and students were shocked by his arrest after knowing him for over 4 years. However, Kelley pled . . . ."? Jim Dunning 00:48, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
All of the information regarding the Broad Run band incident are true. The student who wasn't happy with her grade in Kelley's class, that I remembered was a rumor, but I went to Stone Bridge when all of this was going on. Nevertheless, I knew many people involved with the case more directly. 20176 02:48, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User JMU

Have you considered adding the {{User JMU}} box to your infobox stack? This also adds your user page to Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: James Madison University. Hope you'll consider it. SchuminWeb (Talk) 07:52, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Now that I know about it, I will. Thanks! -- Johnny06man 15:22, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Citation

Thanks for adding the citation to the JMU article. I wasn't the one who added the fact tag to it, but I didn't think it was appropriate that it was removed as "common knowledge" because people on campus knew it, but I wasn't going to press the issue and get into a revert war over a four-letter word that starts with an F :) Keep up the good work on the article! I'm spending a bit of my break working on my own college's page but know that it'll be a little difficult since we're a little obscure. Thanks again for the citation and happy holidays, Metros232 16:59, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

No problem! I think I added that fact tag myself because, while I know it's there, not everyone will. Happy holidays to you too! -- Johnny06man 17:06, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Geo links in JMU article

Hi and thanks for your contributions to the James Madison University article.

I have one question: why did you change the geolink from the {{Geolinks-US-streetscale}} format to {{coor title dms}}? It seems most articles use the former format, for example University of Pennsylvania, University of Virginia, The White House and numerous others. I was under impression this was the de facto wiki standard for coordinates. Rtcpenguin 20:59, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

If you want to change it back, I have no problem with that. I had started to add the one to the top before I saw you had already included it at the end. I personally like having the link at the top, and I'm not too familiar with including coordinates in articles. If the us-streetscale format is more widely used, we can have the JMU page like that as well. -- Johnny06man 00:26, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
I'm not sure what you mean by "at the top". Do you mean having the coordinates displayed at the top of the article or having the wiki code located at the top in the wiki code? Rtcpenguin 19:15, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
The coordinates at the top. Using the {{coor title dms}} format displays the coordinates at the top of the article with a link to view different maps of the given location. The wiki code is still at the bottom of the page, around the category listings. -- Johnny06man 21:17, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
How is that different from the other option({{Geolinks-US-streetscale}})? Don't they both display at the top? See the University of Virginia article for an example. Rtcpenguin 01:18, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
I guess there isn't a difference. I did not realize that the streetscale template also included that information at the top. I knew it had the extra links at the bottom of the page, but I never noticed it added the coordinates at the top as well. Your code seems to satisfy both of our wishes, so we can go with it. I've added the necessary code to the page. -- Johnny06man 03:17, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Broad Run citations help

Johnny06man, 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. Thanks,

—  Jim Dunning  talk  : 18:50, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! I'm having a difficult time knowing what year it is. BTW, you've made Ron Richards so proud . . . .
—  Jim Dunning  talk  : 20:24, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
No problem. It really can be quite confusing the first few weeks of a new year. I always had to correct myself when I dated papers for school. As for Mr. Richards, I've always been a big fan of his, though I still am unsure if his article truly qualifies as "notable". -- Johnny06man 21:24, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
I went back to your original questions, and I am having difficulty remembering where I found those two pieces of information. The orchestra statement I think might have been more of something I heard from the strings teacher when I went to Broad Run. I remember seeing something on the LCPS web site, but I cannot remember what. Since I have no proof of this, I am going to remove that statement from the page. As for lagging AYP, I think I saw that on Broad Run's site, in some sort of administrative-faculty-student review panel report. I will look around to see if I can find it. -- Johnny06man 22:10, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
Found it. It was in the school report card found on the Virginia Department of Education's site here. The school pass rate in 2006 for science was 86%, while the county as a whole was at 89%. Broad Run beat the county average in all the other fields. -- Johnny06man 22:20, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Kingofattendance nonesense

Check this – User talk:Kingofattendance. Nice addition to your User page.

Jim Dunning 01:25, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Nice. I guess I can finally say I've been on wikipedia long enough to have my user page vandalized! -- Johnny06man 05:57, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Peer Reviewer Thingamajigy

Johnny06man, the peerreviewer js is interesting, but I'm not sure of the validity of all of the results. What do you think? Without hitting on all items right now, here's a few quick thoughts —

  • How much longer would we want the lead? I could see maybe a paragraph to summarize team accomplishments and mention some unique items (Mandarin Chinese?), but it is just a high school after all. As I write this, though, I'm thinking we can definitely add some things . . . .
  • I'll look through carefully, but dates seems okay to me (we should go through with a fine tooth comb, but I think most everything was caught as a follow-up to the GA Appraiser's suggestions -- we can look again).
  • I didn't think we had any "citations needed" flags left {{fact}}
  • Links: do we need more? It seems there's a sufficient number now (maybe too much)?
  • "It has been" -- yes, not weasel words, but statement probably in need of a cite. The renovation one probably could use a more solid reference and I've been tracking down more info about when those took place (first one in 71-72 I think when they added the cafeteria and the library, and the most recent was the gym, 2003-4?). As for the "intense rivalry", maybe some local newspaper articles?

Anyways, we should continue to pick over this. I am now curious about seeing how the js works.

Also, the new infobox looks good. Should we adopt it for all LCPS schools?

Thanks, —  Jim Dunning  talk  : 23:53, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

I really like that Infobox. How about instead of the pale green background we find some light versions of maroon and gold so it reflects the school colors? I'm trying to find some rgb values that don't look like sherbet, though. Thoughts? Jim Dunning 01:12, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
Check out the talk page for BRHS. I posted my response to the automated tool now. As for the infobox, I like how it has more individual labels, but at the same time I don't think we should go overboard. The infobox with everything filled in looks pretty long already. We should strive to make it concise, but still informative. I removed your additions to the BR box for superintendent and assistant principals. The superintendent feels unnecessary to me, since his job has more to do with the whole county and not one individual school. I think that field is available because some school heads may still be called superintendents (though I've never encountered this before). Assistant principals, I think there are just so many they don't all need to be there. The principal is the main face of the administration. Maybe include this info in the article body, but not in the infobox. Same with the athletics. It's a long list that is already in the athletics section, so I don't think it needs to be in the infobox (saves us a few lines too). Athletic conference info should stay though IMO.
I love this infobox too. I think it would be great to adopt for each school, but I think it would be better to use the same color scheme for all the schools. Matching each to school colors is a neat idea, but I like how having them all the same kind of links them all together. If you would prefer a different color pattern to the one already made, we could always tinker with it. Again, I just picked the current colors b/c of the template you made for LCPS. -- Johnny06man 01:47, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Multiple AfD:Talk:Farmwell Station Middle School et al issue

Johnny06man, 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  :  04:23, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] GAC backlog elimination drive

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[edit] Robert W. Smith

Hey man, after looking around and seeing if any other webpages were like it, I'm not sure that we can rule out that what we have on the Robert W Smith page was actually copied from activemusician.com instead of them copying the page here. I think it's worth a look around if you can spare a little time sometime. Also, how do I add myself to the list of Kappa Kappa Psi brothers on Wikipedia? Charming to meet you, sir. AEA. Fliry Vorru 15:44, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

I looked into your suggestion, but I feel confident that Active Musician is copying from Wikipedia. Take a look at the Wikipedia bios for Michael W. Smith, Itzhak Perlman, and Stan Kenton (I just randomly selected these artists). Now look at their biographies on Active Musician here, here, and here. The similarities are uncanny, and I doubt Wikipedia would have so many cases of blatant plagiarism. Most likely, since Active Musician is more a store than an encyclopedia, they mirror the articles from Wikipedia without citing it.
As to adding yourself to KKPsi brothers, just add [[Category:Wikipedians in Kappa Kappa Psi]] to your user page. Which chapter are you from? I'm at Eta Omicron, James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Robert W. Smith is one of our honoraries, so I've been trying to cleanup his article a bit, but I cannot find decent sources to verify a lot of the article. AEA -- Johnny06man 16:06, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
I am from the Zeta Upsilon chapter at Troy University in Troy, Alabama. Robert W. Smith actually pledged at our chapter when he was in college and was initiated on April 2, 1977 so we have similar reasons for being interested in his page. Thanks for looking tinto the previous matter for me. I can personally verify some of his personal history from talking to him as a teacher, such as where he's from and his early years, but that's about it. I guess that's hard to cite. Oh well, let me know what else I can do to help the page. Fliry Vorru 18:56, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] AfD R. W. Richards

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