Talk:Westfield High School (Fairfax County, Virginia)/FAQ

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This is a list of Frequently Asked Questions relevant to Wikipedia's Westfield High School (Fairfax County, Virginia) article. This page was created in response to certain topics being brought up again and again on Talk:Westfield High School (Fairfax County, Virginia), sapping many editors' time and energy by forcing them to respond repeatedly to the same issues. The FAQ addresses these common concerns, criticisms, and arguments, and answers various misconceptions behind them. The main points of this FAQ can be summarized as:

[edit] Why should the names of Seung-Hui Cho or Michael Kennedy not be removed from the Notable Alumni List?

This discussion has been made many times by the main editors; in short is that if the two names were not listed, it would break the Wikipedia Guidelines for WP:Neutral Point of View that essentially state that an article can neither be for or against its subject. The article must simply state the facts, and leave interpretation up to the reader. The fact is these two people did graduate from Westfield High School, and as such should be included. Also, note that the subject is referred to as the Notable Alumni, not famous or infamous. Quite literally, the alumni listed there are worthy of note, and without any positive or negative connotations.

[edit] Don't you realize it will reflect badly on Westfield High School?

We realize that having this information may be interpreted badly by some readers, and indeed already has by the press.[1] We realize that the majority of people who want to remove them from the list are students/faculty/staff/alumni of Westfield, and only want the best for it; but in order for the article to be as accurate as possible, they must stay.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Urbina, Ian. "For School, Several Ties to Shootings", New York Times. Retrieved on 2007-04-18.