Talk:Pinewood School, Los Altos

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[edit] Edits On Their Way

This article is going to get a large update due to the efforts of Ms. Hayes's Freshman writing class.

isn't that wonderful? I can't wait to write about this! I hope this turns out wonderful... (Maybe someone might even look at it!) Alexandre-Jérôme

[edit] Los Altos Hills vs. Los Altos

Personal research/experience has led me to believe that the two campi located in Los Altos are more histoircally and originally important (not to mention doubly more numerous) so hence I changed the title Pinewood School, Los Altos Hills to Pinewood School, Los Altos Alexandre-Jérôme

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[edit] history- upper campus

Something is wrong with the dates in this section.

  • This, among others, has been a section witnissing annoying amounts of vandalism. Now that school is out, hopefully they will survive for a while longer. The current dates (see sig for today's date) are correct, I believe, according the administration and hopefully will stay that way. Alexandre-Jérôme 02:29, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Students - Alumni

I don't believe that Caroline Jordan was recognized as one of the top volleyball coaches in the country. Didn't she graduate from MIT in 2005/2006? You can see here that she was a top returning player in 2005. [1]

Is this one of the sections that was vandalized?

Also, I am not sure why this is a good section to have? Unless there was an extremely notable graduate.

My concerns for this section are:

  • Privacy concerns for the named graduates (did they consent to the listing?)
  • Minor "fame" just clutters the section and takes away from the good stuff.
  • This wikipedia article should not end up being an alumni board, there are other places for that.
  • There is too much possibility of abuse for that section.

All that being said, I would strike the entire section and maybe mention Charles Oliver, John Chu and Larisa Oleynik. True famous alums.

I'll check back in a few weeks and see if there is any other discussion before I move to make the edits.

Don't get me wrong, I knew and/or taught most of the students in that list and they have great accomplishments. This article should not be about getting your name in Wikipedia, but about Pinewood School.

Wtbates 23:10, 11 September 2007 (UTC)wtbates

[edit] Proposed Deletion

Pinewood does not appear to conform to Wikipedia's notability guidelines. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_%28schools%29 ErikHaugen (talk) 20:12, 16 April 2008 (UTC)