Talk:List of high schools in Oregon

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Contents 1 Links 2 Assessment 3 Redlinks 4 Mascots

[edit] Links

I vaguely remember linking all these a long time ago, but maybe I'm imagining something. Anyway, they should be linked again. --Liface 22:57, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

I'm done! Respond here if there are any problems. --Liface 20:13, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Assessment

I am marking this article as List / Mid class. Appears to be quite an important list for the project, so it will need to checked that it is complete. Camaron1 | Chris 10:09, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Redlinks

Please read WP:REDLINK and then discuss. Latr, Katr 02:26, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

I'm tempted to say that the redlinks to the high schools would qualify as geopolitical links. High schools are not citiess or rivers, but school districts are geopolitical entities, and high schools are sort of like school districts. Okay, I guess that tags me as having grown up in a rural area where the school districts I knew only had one high school. Still, I think the redlinks would have value here for the same reason that geopolitical redlinks have value.

* Geopolitical redlinks: If relevant to the article you are working on, it is generally a good idea to retain links to geographic places (such as cities, provinces, rivers, and roads) and notable political figures (presidents, regional governors, government offices) even if they are redlinked at the time you are writing. The rationale is that these geopolitical articles are generally going to be notable eventually. When new geopolitical articles are being written, a common method for content generation is to click the "what links here" function of wikipedia and scan the linkages to the new geopolitical article. (The "what links here" function works even on redlinked articles) The article that was formerly redlinked could then draw on the article you are editing on as a source of content for this new article.

-ErinHowarth 20:58, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your input. My comment was in response to a bad faith effort to remove all the redlinks to the article. Katr67 22:06, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mascots

I'm interested in the issue of using Native America icons as mascots for schools, universities and professional athletic teams. I want to create a list of Oregon high school mascots, and this seemed like a really good place to do it. I think it would have value to other readers, but I wanted to pose the question here first. Is it a bad idea to add mascots to this list? Should the list include images? Should I start a new article? Is such a list inappropriate for the encyclopedia? You're comments are most welcome. -ErinHowarth 20:58, 1 September 2007 (UTC)