Talk:Westfield High School (Virginia)/GA1

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GA Reassessment

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As part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles' Project quality task force ("GA Sweeps"), all old good articles are being re-reviewed to ensure that they meet current good article criteria (as detailed at WP:WIAGA.) I have determined that this article needs some work to meet current criteria, outlined below:

By definition a paragraph needs at least three sentences. That means anywhere in the article there are one or two-sentence groupings, they either need to be merged together, expanded with more information, or cut entirely.
There are several "citation needed" tags sprinkled throughout the article, and elements that are unreferenced but not tagged. For example:
- "An additional wing was planned to help deal with the overcrowding,[11] and was completed in summer of 2006."
- "It was adopted by the county school board to ensure that instructional time in middle and high schools meet limits set by the Virginia Department of Education. The directive limited events such as assemblies and pep rallies by categorizing them as after-school events, with the exception of homecoming pep rallies."
- "Chinese language and cultural elective classes are held on Sunday afternoons in the new building addition."
Images: What gives the uploader of File:WHSAerial08.jpg the right to freely release it? Similarly, File:WestfieldHSconstruction1.jpg does not have any indication that the uploader was in fact the author (and this seems unlikely.) It's nice that someone provided permission for File:TheGuardian2002-Athletics.jpg and File:TheGuardian2002-Cover.jpg, but we need verification, for instance forwarding of the respective emails to WP:OTRS; another problem is that the license used seems arbitrary (we can't just pick one if the copyright holder says it can be freely used, we need a specific license). The school mascot (File:Whsbulldog.jpg) is barely mentioned in the article, so why do we need a fair-use image?
There are a lot of quote boxes used in the article, some inappropriately. The fight song and "Black and Gold" poem are copyrighted, and there's no fair use justification for their inclusion (I have removed them.)
I'm concerned about the structure of the history section. Sure, it's a relatively recent school, but it seems entirely too controversy-focused, especially given the subheaders. For example, considering the drug ring mostly deals with alumni, I'm not sure why it merits its own section.
Partly off the above, I'm also concerned about misrepresentation of sources. For example the "Violence Controversies" section starts with "Westfield has come under scrutiny because two unrelated murders perpetrated by alumni occurred within one year." sourced to [1], but nowhere does it discuss "scrutiny". I'm also worried about occasional POV tone and unreliable references: for example, what makes FightFCPS.com or playscripts reliable?
The article appears out of date; it focuses on academic rankings that are more than 6-8 years old, and doesn't pass 2008 in recounting history.

I am putting the article on hold for one week pending improvements; if significant progress is made I will extend the hold. Please keep me appraised of progress on this page. Thanks, Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs^(talk) 19:29, 27 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

- As no apparent progress has been made on addressing the above in the time allotted, I am delisting the article. It may be renominated at any time at WP:GAN, but I encourage improvement along the above lines; trying to rework to article to gain some distance might help. If you have any questions, please use my talk page. Thanks, Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs^(talk) 17:16, 14 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.