Talk:Sidney Lanier High School

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[edit] Athletics

Why is the article on Lanier High School composed mostly of sensationalist athletic accounts and statistics?

• The Lanier Dynasty
• "He destroyed the competition, winning everything he tried."
• He clocked 13.5 seconds in the 120-yard hurdles, fastest time in the nation, then ran 18.4 in the 180 – which was 2/10ths of a second better than the prep national record. He also clocked the 100-yard dash in 9.6 seconds...

Football stats and play-by-plays dominate this article. I do not believe this type of material is really relevant for a Wikipedia article on a high school. WDavis1911 19:38, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

Your comment is not relavent because you are not a graduate of Sidney Lanier High School. Obviously, you were deprived of our pedigree, so you could never appreciate lanier's place in history. Your loss. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.181.33.86 (talk) 09:54, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

My pedigree does not determine whether my comment is relevant. I actually do appreciate Lanier's history, and I'm glad that there are contributors who know so much of it that are willing to write about it. My only problems are as follows:

1) The topic of sports overwhelmingly dominates the article. The school is known for its arts and academic achievements as well.

2) The sports accounts seem very biased.

"The first title under the playoff season came during one of the most memorable games in the history of high school football in the state."

"His replacement, Richard Moncrief, was released after his 2005 team lacked the discipline and character that Lanier's proud football program demanded."

No... not "seem". Are (see Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view#Fairness_of_tone). Great sports writing actually. Encyclopedic... not so much.

Great thing about Wikipedia is that until I or someone else actually cares and has the time to change it, it will probably stay as is. I don't have as much to add as the sports enthusiasts do, and I'm not going to remove information just for the sake of removing it. Please keep contributing all of this valuable information. Just know that it will one day be edited mercilessly for citations, notability, and bias.

In the meantime, if any other authors have non-sports related information they wish to add, please help us balance this article (knowing that your additions will, of course, be held to the same standards). WDavis1911 (talk) 06:09, 24 April 2008 (UTC)