Talk:West Valley School District (Spokane, Washington)
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New West Valley School District (Spokane) Logo
editThe school district has a new logo.
Here is the link to the new logo: http://wvsd.edlioschool.com/album/44611.jpg
Location of school district described in paragraph
editI can't figure out why the school district page shouldn't say the accurate cities it is located in. From the about us page: "The West Valley School District is located eight miles east of downtown Spokane. Encompassing an area of approximately 25 square miles, the district is bordered by Spokane on the west, Woodruff Road on the east, the Dishman Hills to the south, and extends north of the valley." It doesn't say it is within Spokane, even though the address does.
To be clear, I'm only talking about the first sentence: "West Valley School District is a..." @509Freedom:@John from Idegon:—Naddruf (talk ~ contribs) 20:51, 2 February 2020 (UTC)
- It can be confusing and counter-intuitive, but this school district has been around since 1910 in unincorporated Spokane County, and everything in the entire area used to just be referred to as "Spokane" in a generic Spokane County sense. New cities have since formed underneath WVSD, most notably City of Spokane Valley in 2003, and WVSD is still using the historic "Spokane" addresses. The push for outlying cities and communities to actually have their own identity other than "Spokane" is somewhat recent. Regardless, WVSD is objectively not located in the City of Spokane. Linking to the City of Spokane page for addresses not located in City of Spokane, is objectively false information on Wikipedia. I think it's just a holdover that nobody has bothered to fix, or referring to all their schools as "Spokane" was just kept in a nostalgic and/or historical sense. I've now emailed a few school district administrators about it, so hopefully it will get fixed on their end at some point soon.
@Naddruf:@John from Idegon: 509Freedom (talk) 20:00, 6 February 2020 (UTC)
- Please provide sources we can discuss. All the assertions in China will make no difference. We don't write about the subject, we write about what others have written about the subject in reliable secondary sources. As I told you before, I will continue to oppose your proposed changes (which are what, exactly?) until you make arguments based in reliable secondary sources and Wikipedia policies and guidelines. John from Idegon (talk) 20:12, 6 February 2020 (UTC)
- Here's a link to all of WVSD's schools. Click on the "map" link for any and/or all schools. What city are they located in? Are any inside City of Spokane? Continuing to link to the City of Spokane wikipedia page, on pages for a school district that isn't in the City of Spokane, is spreading patently false information. All schools and locations in the WVSD are located in the City of Spokane Valley, City of Millwood, and unincorporated Spokane County based on the common sense of objective address locations, and the map links from WVSD's website. This is also common sense proof that they're using the generic location of "Spokane" as the address at the bottom of individual school webpages. @Naddruf:@John from Idegon:--509Freedom (talk) 06:14, 7 February 2020 (UTC)
- Let's try this yet again. Please provide us a clue specifically what you want to change, exactly what you want the article to say there, and reliable published secondary sources to verify it. John from Idegon (talk) 18:13, 7 February 2020 (UTC)
- Here's a link to all of WVSD's schools. Click on the "map" link for any and/or all schools. What city are they located in? Are any inside City of Spokane? Continuing to link to the City of Spokane wikipedia page, on pages for a school district that isn't in the City of Spokane, is spreading patently false information. All schools and locations in the WVSD are located in the City of Spokane Valley, City of Millwood, and unincorporated Spokane County based on the common sense of objective address locations, and the map links from WVSD's website. This is also common sense proof that they're using the generic location of "Spokane" as the address at the bottom of individual school webpages. @Naddruf:@John from Idegon:--509Freedom (talk) 06:14, 7 February 2020 (UTC)
I want to remove links to the City of Spokane wikipedia from addresses on WVSD pages, because none of their locations are in City of Spokane, and change it to say City of Spokane Valley, City of Millwood, or Spokane County where these locations actually are. Exactly what you reversed on multiple pages and said was wrong, despite now saying you have no clue what's even being proposed. This is borderline trolling from you at this point.
Here is a link to all WVSD schools from the WVSD website, with links to where they are on Google Maps. Here is a link to the WVSD map from the WVSD website, from the bottom of the above page. Here is a link to a map of Spokane County, from Spokane County’s website.
Are any of these locations in the City of Spokane? If not, they need to be linked to the actual city in which their address is located to facilitate accurate information on Wikipedia. Which would instead be City of Spokane Valley, City of Millwood, and Spokane County. They are maps from WVSD and Spokane County. If you're claiming that I need to now find secondary sources that "interpret" to you how to read a map, you're moving the goalpost into absurdity. This is so straight forward that I genuinely don't know what else to tell you. It's address locations on a map. @Naddruf:@John from Idegon: --509Freedom (talk) 19:47, 8 February 2020 (UTC)
Orphaned references in West Valley School District (Spokane, Washington)
editI check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of West Valley School District (Spokane, Washington)'s orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
Reference named "NCES":
- From Shadle Park High School: "Shadle Park High School". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved February 12, 2021.
- From University High School (Washington): "University High School". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved May 11, 2020.
- From Mead High School: "Mead Senior High School". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved June 12, 2021.
- From Lewis and Clark High School: "Lewis & Clark High School". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved February 12, 2021.
- From Mt. Spokane High School: "Mt Spokane High School". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved June 12, 2021.
- From North Central High School (Spokane, Washington): "North Central High School". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved July 14, 2021.
- From Joel E. Ferris High School: "Ferris High School". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved February 12, 2021.
- From John R. Rogers High School: "Rogers High School". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved February 12, 2021.
I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 15:04, 5 October 2021 (UTC)