Talk:Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dubuque

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Moved from Archdiocese of Dubuque to Roman Catholic Archediocese of Dubuque for (1) uniformity with other Roman Catholic diocesan articles on Wikipedia and (2) clarity based on Wikipedia namespace standards for articles and possible articles with similar names. --Gerald Farinas 22:23, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I have made some comments in the talk section of the article on _Dubuque, Iowa_ suggesting a link to this page, among other things. You get a disambiguation page if you search on _Dubuque_, and THIS page should probably link to this disambiguation page. See my further remarks at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Dubuque%2C_Iowa&action=edit --FourthAve 7 July 2005 20:49 (UTC)

Help needed on an unrelated article

I tried to construct a article on public schools similar to "Roman Catholic sex abuse cases." It is under severe attack by the deniers. The article is Sex abuse cases in American public schools (Iowa).
Disclosure about my pov: I have nothing against teachers. I think most of them are doing a great job under the burdens society has levied on them. I have never been molested!

I was careful to only include cases which could be verified and were of a serious nature. I deliberately omitted porno at school, drug pushing at school, even violence. I also omitted "outside" misconduct by teachers. That is, if they met the student outside the school, it was a crime (from my pov) that could have been perpetrated by any occupation. So I omitted it.

Since newspaper articles only go back a few years online, without a fee there are very few documented cases.

The article is under extreme attack by the deny-ers. They assert a) the abuse never happened, b) the abuse did happen but it wasn't important. I could use some help (an understatement!). Thanks. Student7 12:30, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

Recent Events

I really think that some parts of the "recent events" section of this article need to be cut down in size. I am thinking in particular about the passion of the christ section talking about the cartoon. Is that really relevant enough to be included in an article about the archdiocese? If I wanted to read an encyclopedia article encompassing all the important aspects of the archdiocese, would people's reactions to a cartoon be one of the most important things to include? I invite the author to make their case. And also, to cite their information, as this section is currently not cited. Inquisitive89 (talk) 06:10, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Aquinas Institute

I think some mention should be made of the Aguinas Institute and the educational work done by this Dominican Seminary, even if the Dominicans are no longer present or active in Dubuque. Mention might also be made of the Trappine monastery--Our Lady of the Mississippi.

WP:NOT and school lists

@Elizium23: Hi! It is customary for to list all schools operated by that authority, not only current high schools. This is the practice for over a decade.

While Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not#Wikipedia_is_not_a_directory, Wikipedia absolutely is a gazetteer (as per Wikipedia:Notability_(geographic_features)) and such lists of schools are intended for the gazetteer aspect of Wikipedia.

In addition in the process of writing sections about schools you start with a list like this. Then you search for newspaper articles which cover school construction additions/renovations, school closures, changes of superintendents/principals etc. It is necessary to start with a list like this, and the encyclopedic content comes after that. A list of schools is not a "white or yellow pages" - Note that the WP:NOT example states "Contact information such as phone numbers, fax numbers and e-mail addresses is not encyclopedic." as being unencyclopedic. The list did not contain that.

Additionally lists of schools has many daughter articles, showing that such lists are standard practice.

Thanks, WhisperToMe (talk) 23:25, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

If some schools were notable, I could perhaps see exceptions made, but for a whole raft of non-notable schools, there is no reason to list them and it attracts more cruft than is good for a presentable article. Elizium23 (talk) 23:34, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

@Elizium23: The school lists absolutely include schools which are not "notable" for the purpose of writing an article about them. The guidance on how to deal with them is these two guidelines.

• Wikipedia:WikiProject_Schools/Article_advice states: "Non-notable school articles are generally blanked and redirected to the school district's article (USA)"
• Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Common_outcomes#Schools states: "Most elementary (primary) and middle schools that don't source a clear claim to notability usually get merged or redirected to the school district authority that operates them (generally North America)[...]"

Since redirects generally require that the redirect subject is named at the destination article, this means there should be a list of those non-notable schools at the destinations. This means archdiocese articles should list non-notable (meaning not notable to have their own articles) elementary schools, and commentary on leadership changes, new buildings/renovations, and school closures sourced to local newspapers would be used to fill them out. Many Catholic schools have closed over the years, and ample material appears in local papers.

WhisperToMe (talk) 00:13, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

@Elizium23: Thank you so much! I will notify the school projects and inform the discussion about the guidelines above. WhisperToMe (talk) 00:33, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

Discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Catholicism#Lists of parishes, schools, religious on diocesan article pages

 You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Catholicism#Lists of parishes, schools, religious on diocesan article pages. Elizium23 (talk) 00:16, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

July 2021 Latin Church revision

As of July 2021, this article was modified to eliminate the nondescript term "Roman Catholic" in favor of the more precise distinction of "Latin Church" (the sui iuris church) and "Catholic Church" (the denomination). If you believe this edit to be in error or improper, please make the relevant reversion and open discussion on this talk page or my personal talk page. Thank you. ~ Pbritti (talk) 03:35, 16 July 2021 (UTC)