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February 2017

Hi. Please stop inserting self sourced information into the encyclopedia article on Mount Si High School. This is an independent encyclopedia article about the high school. It is not part of the school's social media presence. An encyclopedia article is not written about a given subject; instead it is to be made up of a summarization of what others have written about the subject in reliable sources. Thanks. John from Idegon (talk) 02:13, 17 February 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for your help John. I understand that now and I won't provide anything more from the school's own website. I assume that includes the school district as a whole as well, correct? I'm puzzled, however, on why you would delete all the information I provided with outside sources. The Newsweek best schools is sourced at the Newsweek article. I provided exact citations for each year of the AP award. I provided a scholarly section on the school being studied, which seems relevant. I also did a lot of cleaning up of language, but you just reverted everything so all those edits were lost. I also reorganized the pages in a thoughtful way, for example, moving the two scandals to the end because they aren't historical. I've seen this repeatedly on Wikipedia pages where controversies is a section at the end. I don't understand why you would just revert the whole ting. I did a lot of work on this, otherwise following all the instructions and I'm feeling quite discouraged. How can I get back the proper things I did?

Every page has a "history" tab somewhere at the top (location varies with which interface skin you use and I cannot remember where it is in the standard skin). Your edits are all still there. I reverted your edits with a semi automated editing aid called twinkle. Once I see three or four things that are problematic, I just revert all of it. The US News & World Report stuff was not cited. And altho lots of articles have controversy sections, they are discouraged as they are magnets for unencyclopedic gossip. We have a policy here called WP:NOT. As the name implies, it details several things Wikipedia is not. One of those is a newspaper. If something hasn't been covered on a widespread (not just locally) and enduring (longer than the immediate time frame of its occurrence) basis, it just doesn't belong in the article. Not speaking specifically about what you added, but generally, that is what controversy sections contain. It is completely irrelevant (not to mention a violation of biographies of living people policy) whether, for example, a teacher was arrested for drunk driving. Or for that matter, convicted of statutory rape of a student (sadly, that is a lot more common than anyone wants to know). Remember, the target audience is the entire English speaking world. Much of what is a big deal in the school, or even in the school's community, is really pretty small potatoes in the bigger scheme of things.

One further small thing: don't forget to sign your talk page posts, and please make note of how I used colons to indent your reply and my reply to that. Proper threading makes talk page conversations so much easier to follow. Remember your talk page messages are visible to everyone and anyone can comment on them. Clarity is important. Thanks for your contributions and welcome. I'll leave you a link to a q&a forum for new editors. They are an immense help. John from Idegon (talk) 16:39, 17 February 2017 (UTC)

Oh, yes, sorry, let me remember to sign. And, so, regarding the colons, do I now put three in front of this comment, to indent further? Or just two? Regarding the controversy section, I totally see your point. It really isn't relevant. Should I cut it down a lot or just remove it? Thanks so much for all your help! I do really value Wikipedia, and give money every year, so I thought I should try my hand at editing.~--ReadWrite222 (talk) 17:03, 17 February 2017 (UTC)

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Barnstar for you!

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		You did a great job editing, cleaning up and reformatting article Mount Si High School! -glove- (talk) 22:47, 19 February 2017 (UTC)

Aw! Thank you! It was fun.--ReadWrite222 (talk) 22:54, 19 February 2017 (UTC)

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