User talk:16mccormickl

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Waterford High School

Hi. Welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions to Waterford High School (Connecticut). A regular editor has removed some inappropriate content from this article according to the WP:WPSCHOOLS/AG article guidelines for schools, and editing has been suspended for a short while contributors familiarise themselves with the article guidelines, and policies about mentioning people. Please refer to the article history to see and understand the changes. Thanks. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 08:17, 9 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Again, welcome! Gtwfan52 (talk) 20:33, 9 June 2013 (UTC) Gtwfan52 (talk) 20:33, 9 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Waterford High School

Hi, 16mccormickl. I'm Gtwfan52. I am a member of the editor retention project and also the school project. I am also the editor that has been reverting your contributions at the above article. I am not doing this to be mean, as I think you know. Most of the reason I have been reverting your edits come from the school article guidelines, but somewhat due to WP:UNDUE. I do realize you are doing this as a school assignment, but unfortunately, the goals of the encyclopedia must come first.

OK, that being said, here are my specific problems with your proposed edit.

We never mention names in school articles, with two exceptions. One is a sourced list of principals and/or the listing of the current principal in the infobox. The other is people who are notable enough to have a Wikipedia article written about them.
Secondly, let me ask you a question. Do you think it fair to have a big section on one student activity and little to nothing on others? Of course it isn't. This is where WP:UNDUE comes in.
Third, your school hasn't been around long, but think about the future. You are working on a class project right now, but who is going to keep up with the plays that are staged in the future? And think about how big that is going to make the section if someone does in say 20 years.
Fourth, all the copy on the staging of a play is misplaced. If someone needs to know about how a play is staged, do you think they would look in the encyclopedia under your school?
Last, and most important: Keep in mind that your high school is all that has happened to you, but you are not your audience. Somebody in Boise or Calcutta isn't going to give a hoot that your school staged whatever play in 2011. That is your audience. School articles are to be written to the world-wide English speaking audience. The school guidelines state that information that is primarily of interest to the school community alone is not proper content for a high school article.

So my proposal for what your edit should be is this:

add WATERFORDrama to student activities section, followed by (drama club). If you want to improve the article, please clean up the prose in that section and reference it to something (is there a listing of student activities on the school website? That would be ideal).

I am guessing that this isn't the answer you were looking for, but remember, content needs to be consistent with the guidelines. If you wish any specific help in making your article better, please feel free to contact me anytime. You might wish to have your instructor read the article guidelines so he/she can properly guide your assignments. Gtwfan52 (talk) 23:13, 9 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Another good thing to do for the article would be to reference the state championships in the athletic section. I am not familiar with where to look for that in Connecticut, but in most states, the high school athletic sanctioning organization maintains that info on their website. Example--in Indiana you would look at The IHSAA website. Gtwfan52 (talk) 00:08, 10 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much for your input, Gtwfan52. I greatly appreciate your advice and I will try to fix my edit to the best of my abilities. If I need any more help with any editing I will be sure to contact you.

Thanks again, 16mccormickl (talk) 01:10, 10 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]