Talk:Sausalito Marin City School District
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[edit] Experiment
This article was created using only information from one page at the National Center for Education Statistics as an experiment. The assumption being tested is that a reasonable stub or start-class article can be created using this single reliable source. The hope is that districts and high schools (at least) could be added automatically using this database, just as all Census designated places were added at once. The next step is to improve the article using only the District's official website. The final step (for me) is to improve it to Good Article quality using online sources only. I hope that a better infobox template can be created specifically for the information available from NCES, but I'm not up to that, yet.
Please feel free to discuss both the article and the experiment.--Hjal 09:50, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Experiment re NCES data, phase II
I have loaded all of the NCES data on the three schools in the Sausalito Marin City School District into the District article. It looks klunky, in part becasue I am limiting this edition to what's in the NCES database, and in part becasue I'm setting up the page to break the indivudal schools out into separate articles after searching the district's own website for more information. As a result, the page looks overloaded with infoboxes and geolinks, plus I ended up with coordinates for the two different campuses overlaying each other at the top of the page. I'm sure that some of the NCES information would look better in tabular form, but I don't have much experience with making tables yet, and I don't know what a bot could be capable of, so I'm keeping it simple. I left a couple of terms from NCES in, even though they aren't well known—I plan to add some discussions of terminology at the NCES article, so the redlinks will go away. I left in the NCES and California ID numbers for the District and its schools, but I'm not sure that they will be useful here. One thing that is obvious, is that this article would not fit into a typical locality article—it's already too long for that in its plain vanilla format. Besides, it would have to go into two articles—Sausalito and Marin City. With a district article like this set up, I can put a paragraph about education in each of the town articles with a link to the District article or the appropriate schoo articles.
Please review and comment, here or at Schools.--Hjal 07:42, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Vandalism?
Today, March 5 by PST, a prod template was clumsily added to this article. I just removed it. Please see User talk:Apterygiformesk for my discussion, if you are interested.
