Talk:Thomas S. Wootton High School

Baltimore City College is a B...? Yours is almost. Reapply when you have a few more pics and refs. Victuallers 19:08, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

I'm not one of those "we must have no school articles" editors, but honestly, do we need this? And if we need it, can I at least cut the "secret interview with Ian"? Jwrosenzweig 20:42, 15 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Please change!

the article mentions something that happened with the wootton cheerleaders, and i would like to have it removed because it is irrelevant to wootton's cheerleaders' reputation now and only succeeds in making them look horrible now. I know for a fact that the cheer squad these past few years has placed high in all of their competitions and has a more than respectful image. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Juiciejuice241 (talk • contribs) 21:34, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

What matters is not the reputation of the cheerleading squad, but rather its impact on the school or community. Because the 2005 incident concerning the squad was pretty significant to both the school and community, it should be kept. However, if you can find information (with citations) about the squad winning awards/recognition, you can include that in the article, too. But it would probably go in an athletics-related section, rather than with the information on the 2005 incident. DAK4Blizzard (talk) 06:54, 23 May 2010 (UTC)

from VfD

On 5 Mar 2005, this article was nominated for deletion. See Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Thomas Spriggs Wootton High School for a record of the discussion.

Cleanup

This article has real merit, but really needs to be cleaned up. The list of Notable alumni and staff, recent events.... "Noted for Jewish and Asian populations?" --BaronLarf 17:19, Apr 22, 2005 (UTC)

• I've done my best to clean up the article. Please post here if you have any problems with the changes. --BaronLarf 05:13, Apr 23, 2005 (UTC)

Great article

This is one of the best article's I've seen, I really like the layout and the pictures. This thing is going on my watch list in case someone tries to damage it. --ShaunMacPherson 07:53, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

Yes, it's come a long way. I remember when I first found this article on 21 Feb 2005. Carrp marked it for cleanup four days later. I was very disappointed. Now, the article is much longer and better than before, thanks to the help of many good editors. I appreciate your comments and any constructive critisism in the future would be greatly appreciated. — MATHWIZ2020 ^{TALK | CONTRIBS} 00:36, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

OAR

Does anyone know to which middle school the four OAR members went? (They are Wootton alumni, which means they either went to RFMS, CJMS, or transferred). Thanks. — MATHWIZ2020 ^{TALK | CONTRIBS} 22:31, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

Well before like 1995, only Frost feed into Wootton

Vandalism

Over the past few days, Thomas Sprigg Wootton High School has experience numerous vandalism by:

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I would like to add that all of the users above have contributed to this article anonymously and that their only edits have been vandalizing this article. I have added {{subst:blatantvandal}} to the talk page of all of the above users (except to one talk page, since User:Pgk got to him first). Please help me stop these vandals! Thanks. — MATHWIZ2020 ^{TALK | CONTRIBS} 23:14, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

Sports NPOV Dispute

The stories of the football and soccer team appear to be written to glorify the individual team, as if written by a member of that team. Because of the fact that "stud-muffin" was originally used as an adjective in the soccer section, it's safe to say that it's not being done from a neutral view point. Also, the soccer section points out the relative lack of "winning tradition" presented by the football team, a point that was stated in the previous paragraph, proclaiming the football as instilling a winning tradition to the school. Thoughts? --Metros232 22:35, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Since no one has any comments or thoughts to add, it appears, I'm going to edit the sports sections to make them just state facts rather than tell stories. This will apply to the sports section and the Cross Country section, which will be combined into the sports section. I'm a Cross Country runner at the NCAA D3 level in college, and I see no reason why they need their own section in this article, so they should be combined into sports.--Metros232 15:37, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

And to further prove the bias, there are many sports that were not mentioned in the original article that won MANY state titles, like volleyball in the 1980s. You can argue that current students might not remember that so it wasn't included by them, but what about girls' soccer that won a title in 1998 and made the finals the next 2 years after that? So, yes, that section had to be changed. --Metros232 16:10, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

I was a starter on the 1996 Baseball team which won the 4A State title but we also were ranked #1 in the entire Metro Area AND were ranked #16 Nationally in USA today. I believe these should be mentioned in the blurb. And why is cross country, who hasn't won any titles recently as far as I can tell, being given a paragraph at the beginning, as if it was the most important sport at Wootton (which it wasn't)? Tvardek (talk) 16:06, 1 September 2008 (UTC)Tvardek —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tvardek (talk • contribs) 16:03, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

im pretty sure flounder from DC101 went to wootton

but im not sure he graduated, i remember hearing him talking about it on the radio.

Disambiguation question

I disambiguated Patriot to Patriot (American Revolution), but I'm not sure if it would more properly be disambiguated to Patriotism. Unless my assumption that the mascot is specifically referring to a rebelling British colonist is correct, it should be changed. Thanks! -- Anaraug 05:38, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Please leave this page the way it is

I'd like to cite this Wikipedia article on Facebook, please don't change anything —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.47.114.226 (talk) 02:56, 23 September 2010 (UTC)

Make a "Signiture Programs" section?

A few signiture programs (such as the Humanities and Arts Program and the STARS program are already listed, however there a some more (such as AOIT, etc.). If one were to add these into the page, should we make a new "Signiture Programs" section? Thanks! Themarioman (talk) 16:10, 6 February 2012 (UTC)