Feel free to post anything you feel fit! KTownUSA ( talk) 05:21, 27 December 2009 (UTC)
Hey Ktown! How often do you go to Pyote, Texas?
Someone needs to photograph the West Texas State School. It is at Interstate 20, P.O. Box 415, Pyote, Texas 79777.
You need to get a photo similar to this one: http://web.archive.org/web/20070702034003/http://www.tyc.state.tx.us/programs/westtexas/images/westtexas.jpg - We can't use that actual photo as it is copyrighted. We have to arrange for a Wikipedian to photograph the building himself/herself
Thanks, WhisperToMe ( talk) 05:22, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
Re. Photo Request
I usually don't go through Pyote very often, but if I have some spare time I might go out there sometime and get you a photo when I'm in Monahans since its not too far off.
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The two sections that I feel provide excessive detail and are unencyclopedic are the list of classes in the Academics section (all High Schools offer more or less the same classes, there's no need to list them all) and the lyrics to the school songs (for example, does the article United States of America have the lyrics to the Star Spangled Banner?). Removing these two sections would significantly reduce the overall length of the article without losing any information that a visitor would find useful.
As for neutrality, I would be conscious of your use of weasel words and avoid sentences like "Today, Kermit High School is organized into almost 20 departments/units, with a strong emphasis on science, math, social studies, and language arts. It is also well recognized for its extra-curricular organizations such as athletics and sports, band, choir, theater, and an active student council." This sentence provides only one fact - that Kermit High School is organized into almost 20 departments/units. This fact is also not interesting or useful to anybody except school employees. It's not even precise because it is "almost 20". The rest of that statement is opinion. - Drdisque ( talk) 12:34, 29 September 2011 (UTC)
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I see you are working on it. You do realize that the guidelines call for the removal of all those individual state championships and the less than state championship achievements, ya? Causes that is why I tagged it. John from Idegon ( talk) 06:19, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
- Cool, good to know. Since you seem to have such a vast knowledge of the guidelines perhaps you could give me a direct reference to the specific statute within the guidelines that prohibits such information being present on an article.
- From WP:WPSCH/AG#OS:
Major extra curricular championships will be defined as the highest possible championship a team can win from that activity's organizing committee. In the United States, this would nominally be a "state championship". Individual awards should generally not be listed. National championships, when referenced, may also be listed.
- Hope that helps! Perhaps you may wish to join Wikiproject Schools? John from Idegon ( talk) 06:40, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
- Ok thanks! I'll find a way to revise that. However, it is getting late so I will probably do it tomorrow.
You are probably not going to like it, but I blanked and redirected the article on the Junior High that goes with this high school. Only high schools are presumed notable. You had written an awesome history there, but as it was sourced to documents from the school district, the references did nothing to show any notability. Since middle and elementary schools do not get a presumption of notability, you have to prove notability by meeting the standard at WP:ORG (Notability for corporations and organizations), which requires that you show sources from diverse geographic sources. Middle schools will generally not have that unless they are on the NRHP or something really big happened there at one time. You can add some of the history you wrote in an appropriate section in the school district's article, and also the stuff you have dug up on the elementary school that is in your sandbox.
- Ok I understand. Thank you for at least taking the time to explain. I think it is a good idea to incorporate some of the information on those articles to the school district article as you mentioned.
- -Thanks,
KTownUSA (
talk) 05:42, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
- You're very welcome. You write well. Please keep up the good work! John from Idegon ( talk) 06:00, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
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Feel free to post anything you feel fit! KTownUSA ( talk) 05:21, 27 December 2009 (UTC)
Hey Ktown! How often do you go to Pyote, Texas?
Someone needs to photograph the West Texas State School. It is at Interstate 20, P.O. Box 415, Pyote, Texas 79777.
You need to get a photo similar to this one: http://web.archive.org/web/20070702034003/http://www.tyc.state.tx.us/programs/westtexas/images/westtexas.jpg - We can't use that actual photo as it is copyrighted. We have to arrange for a Wikipedian to photograph the building himself/herself
Thanks, WhisperToMe ( talk) 05:22, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
Re. Photo Request
I usually don't go through Pyote very often, but if I have some spare time I might go out there sometime and get you a photo when I'm in Monahans since its not too far off.
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Hello, KTownUSA! WikiProject United States, an outreach effort supporting development of United States related articles in Wikipedia, has recently been restarted after a long period of inactivity. As a user who has shown an interest in United States related topics we wanted to invite you to join us in developing content relating to the United States. If you are interested please add your Username and area of interest to the members page here. Thank you!!! |
-- Kumioko ( talk) 21:23, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
- Welcome to the project and please let me know if you have any comments, questions or suggestions. -- Kumioko ( talk) 22:01, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
With the first of what I hope will be monthly newsletters I again want to welcome you to the project and hope that as we all work together through the year we can expand the project, create missing articles and generally improve the pedia thought mutual cooperation and support. Now that we have a project and a solid pool of willing members I wanted to strike while the iron is hot and solicite help in doing a few things that I believe is a good next step in solidifiing the project. I have outlined a few suggestions where you can help with on the projects talk page. This includes but is not limited too updating Portal:United States, assessing the remaining US related articles that haven't been assessed, eliminating the Unrefernced BLP's and others. If you have other suggestions or are interested in doing other things feel free. I just wanted to offer a few suggestions were additional help is needed. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions, comments or suggestions or you can always post something on the projects talk page. If you do not want to recieve a monthly message please put an * before your name on the members page.-- Kumioko ( talk) 03:32, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
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The two sections that I feel provide excessive detail and are unencyclopedic are the list of classes in the Academics section (all High Schools offer more or less the same classes, there's no need to list them all) and the lyrics to the school songs (for example, does the article United States of America have the lyrics to the Star Spangled Banner?). Removing these two sections would significantly reduce the overall length of the article without losing any information that a visitor would find useful.
As for neutrality, I would be conscious of your use of weasel words and avoid sentences like "Today, Kermit High School is organized into almost 20 departments/units, with a strong emphasis on science, math, social studies, and language arts. It is also well recognized for its extra-curricular organizations such as athletics and sports, band, choir, theater, and an active student council." This sentence provides only one fact - that Kermit High School is organized into almost 20 departments/units. This fact is also not interesting or useful to anybody except school employees. It's not even precise because it is "almost 20". The rest of that statement is opinion. - Drdisque ( talk) 12:34, 29 September 2011 (UTC)
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Yours, Maximilianklein ( talk) 03:58, 1 December 2012 (UTC) |
I see you are working on it. You do realize that the guidelines call for the removal of all those individual state championships and the less than state championship achievements, ya? Causes that is why I tagged it. John from Idegon ( talk) 06:19, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
- Cool, good to know. Since you seem to have such a vast knowledge of the guidelines perhaps you could give me a direct reference to the specific statute within the guidelines that prohibits such information being present on an article.
- From WP:WPSCH/AG#OS:
Major extra curricular championships will be defined as the highest possible championship a team can win from that activity's organizing committee. In the United States, this would nominally be a "state championship". Individual awards should generally not be listed. National championships, when referenced, may also be listed.
- Hope that helps! Perhaps you may wish to join Wikiproject Schools? John from Idegon ( talk) 06:40, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
- Ok thanks! I'll find a way to revise that. However, it is getting late so I will probably do it tomorrow.
You are probably not going to like it, but I blanked and redirected the article on the Junior High that goes with this high school. Only high schools are presumed notable. You had written an awesome history there, but as it was sourced to documents from the school district, the references did nothing to show any notability. Since middle and elementary schools do not get a presumption of notability, you have to prove notability by meeting the standard at WP:ORG (Notability for corporations and organizations), which requires that you show sources from diverse geographic sources. Middle schools will generally not have that unless they are on the NRHP or something really big happened there at one time. You can add some of the history you wrote in an appropriate section in the school district's article, and also the stuff you have dug up on the elementary school that is in your sandbox.
- Ok I understand. Thank you for at least taking the time to explain. I think it is a good idea to incorporate some of the information on those articles to the school district article as you mentioned.
- -Thanks,
KTownUSA (
talk) 05:42, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
- You're very welcome. You write well. Please keep up the good work! John from Idegon ( talk) 06:00, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
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