Talk:List of high schools in Oregon

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Links

I vaguely remember linking all these a long time ago, but maybe I'm imagining something. Anyway, they should be linked again. --Liface 22:57, 19 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm done! Respond here if there are any problems. --Liface 20:13, 9 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Assessment

I am marking this article as List / Mid class. Appears to be quite an important list for the project, so it will need to checked that it is complete. Camaron1 | Chris 10:09, 28 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Redlinks

Please read WP:REDLINK and then discuss. Latr, Katr 02:26, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm tempted to say that the redlinks to the high schools would qualify as geopolitical links. High schools are not citiess or rivers, but school districts are geopolitical entities, and high schools are sort of like school districts. Okay, I guess that tags me as having grown up in a rural area where the school districts I knew only had one high school. Still, I think the redlinks would have value here for the same reason that geopolitical redlinks have value.

* Geopolitical redlinks: If relevant to the article you are working on, it is generally a good idea to retain links to geographic places (such as cities, provinces, rivers, and roads) and notable political figures (presidents, regional governors, government offices) even if they are redlinked at the time you are writing. The rationale is that these geopolitical articles are generally going to be notable eventually. When new geopolitical articles are being written, a common method for content generation is to click the "what links here" function of wikipedia and scan the linkages to the new geopolitical article. (The "what links here" function works even on redlinked articles) The article that was formerly redlinked could then draw on the article you are editing on as a source of content for this new article.

-ErinHowarth 20:58, 1 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your input. My comment was in response to a bad faith effort to remove all the redlinks to the article. Katr67 22:06, 1 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Mascots

I'm interested in the issue of using Native America icons as mascots for schools, universities and professional athletic teams. I want to create a list of Oregon high school mascots, and this seemed like a really good place to do it. I think it would have value to other readers, but I wanted to pose the question here first. Is it a bad idea to add mascots to this list? Should the list include images? Should I start a new article? Is such a list inappropriate for the encyclopedia? You're comments are most welcome. -ErinHowarth 20:58, 1 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Are you still interested in this? Katr67 (talk) 07:30, 9 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Clean up notes

I made a subsection for a city if it had 5 or more schools. Katr67 (talk) 07:24, 9 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Completeness and naming

I believe this list now contains all the public and private schools competing in the OSAA as of today. Or it will soon. It is missing several public alternative schools and likely many private schools, as these seem to constantly be in flux. All schools that include additional grades other than 9-12 are listed under the actual school name (e.g. Foo School) as determined by checking the ODE directory and the schools' websites, though the OSAA and the press may still refer to them as Foo High School. Katr67 (talk) 07:54, 9 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

In a related note, I have been making cats at the county level, but to avoid OVERCAT I have only made them for those counties with a minimum of 10 high schools. At this point all of those cats have been created. Once Umatilla and Yamhill reach ten, then I'll create cats for them too. Aboutmovies (talk) 08:42, 9 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Format

I just noticed this has a ton of whitespace between the TOC and the first table when viewed in IE. Can that be fixed? Katr67 (talk) 00:47, 3 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It's not so much an IE problem, as a screen width problem. If you shrink down IE or Firefox to a smaller screen, then at somepoint the TOC and table can no longer co-exist next to each other. I made a few minor adjustments, so let me know if that fixes the problem at your screen size. Aboutmovies (talk) 08:32, 3 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Much better, thank you. The TOC smooshes against the "L" in alphabetical, but it's a lot better. Normally I use Firefox, but sometimes I notice the whitespace problems when I'm forced to use IE. I dunno about screen width, I'll have to check my settings. Katr67 (talk) 18:18, 3 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

FWIW, it was happening in FF, which I noticed because I'm currently working on my small-screened laptop. tedder (talk) 20:28, 3 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, I figured it out. I get confused between bigger/smaller/higher/lower resolution. Anyway, the screen I use IE with is set at "Make the text really honkin' huge" because of what I use it for. Apparently most folks set it the same though per www.screenresolution.org so I suppose we should make sure our articles are viewable at that. Katr67 (talk) 21:13, 3 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

One option here, would be to go with the collapsed TOC. At least then it only creates a big whitespace if you uncollapse it. But, hopefully we can expand the lead some via some summary (number of high schools, # public, #private, largest, smallest; maybe even number of schools in each county or number of high schools that include grades other than 9-12). Aboutmovies (talk) 22:36, 3 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

(left) Really, they should all be in the same table. Thanks for all you've been doing on it, AM. tedder (talk) 01:03, 4 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

One table is fine with me, but let's wait till I finish the last two counties. Then we'll need to add a county field. If we go with one table, how do we want it sorted as the default? Alpha by school name, city name, county, etc. Personally I think school name makes sense as the default, as I think most people already have a school name in mind, but the second best would be city name. Aboutmovies (talk) 03:30, 4 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I'm not in a hurry because you've been doing a great job. Sorting by school or county is fine. Probably need to add the OSAA conference too. tedder (talk) 05:31, 4 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm done with my work here, so feel free to add columns, tweak the formatting, etc. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Aboutmovies (talk • contribs) 09:34, 10 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Puzzled

I added an image for Wallowa High School just now, but it doesn't show up. I've fiddled around to no avail. It's probably something obvious that I'm looking right at, but I can't see it. Can anyone fix this? I've got a couple more, Union High School (Oregon) and Powder Valley School, that I uploaded but can't seem to install in this list. Finetooth (talk) 02:53, 2 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed. You're welcome.

tedder (talk) 03:09, 2 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Tedder. I see now. Finetooth (talk) 03:17, 2 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Schools Needing to be Moved to Closed Section

I was updating my info for the new OSAA alignments, and came across a few schools that need to be moved down to the closed section: Fairview Christian (Albany, closed 2009), Crook County Christian (Prineville, closed 2010), and Cascade Locks (closing date unknown, converted to elementary school). Mtndrums (talk) 21:40, 5 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Updated, thanks. Aboutmovies (talk) 06:49, 6 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]