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Phillipsburg Catholic

Thanks for the advice on Wiki edits. However your modification un-designating PCHS as a parochial school is incorrect. In fact Phillipsburg Parochial was the name of the school from 1923 to 1961. A parochial school defined by Wiki is a parish school and that is what PPHS AND PCHS were.TomK 01:27, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

• Parochial school specifies that "In the United States the term 'parochial school' can refer to a school run by any religious organization.", so a parochial school can be Catholic, any Protestant denomination, Jewish or Muslim. "Parochial school" is not incorrect in any way, but Catholic school has the advantage of defining the specific faith behind the school. Alansohn 21:21, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

Old Bridge High School

I am curious why you changed the location of this school from Matawan to Old Bridge Township. If you click the referenced high school website link here [1] and then click Directions you will see that the high school website says it is in Matawan, both at the top of the page and in the directions at the bottom. Usually we believe the school's web site. Do you have some other source that says something different? Truthanado 02:01, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

Old Bridge High School is located in Old Bridge Township on Rt 516. Its mailing address and zip code are Matawan but is it physically located in Old Bridge. I live in Old Bridge, my children graduated from the high school.TomK 03:28, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the explanation.

PS - It would help if you type four tilde characters ~~~~ at the end of your comments on the Talk pages. That will automatically add your name (wikilinked), date and time. Truthanado 20:25, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Paul Robeson Campus Center

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Notable individuals

Wikipedia's notability standard for biographies of living people requires that reliable and verifiable sources be provided to demonstrate that an individual is notable. When listed as notables in an article, there must also be sources to demonstrate a connection to the school. This has not been done for either Scott L. Reda or Matthew T. Korp at Phillipsburg Catholic High School. If you have newspaper or magazine sources to demonstrate their notability AND their attendance at Phillipsburg Catholic High School, I would be more than happy to assist you in adding them in the proper format. Without the required sources, these listings will be removed. Alansohn 15:00, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

• As described above in detail, the entries for Scott L. Reda or Matthew T. Korp have been removed again. There are no sources for Korp, and the only source for Reda is his own website. Independent sources must be provided to establish both notability and a connection to PCHS, or the entries will be removed. As I offered previously, if you have newspaper or magazine sources to demonstrate their notability AND their attendance at Phillipsburg Catholic High School, I would be more than happy to assist you in adding them in the proper format. Further additions without the required sources may be treated as vandalism. Alansohn 18:07, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

The individuals entered are notable alumni of the school. The school is closed. There was a link to the alumni site but it was removed as well. Scott Reda is the CEO of Lou Reda Productions.The History Channel features his productions on a regular basis. Matthew T.Korp is a radio news director known as Matt Kerr on the local radio station. They are both well known in the area. There are 1000s of high schools on WIKI and every one has some obscure alumni mentioned. Why do you exhibit this animosity toward a now closed small high school in the farmlands of west New Jersey?? I read the WP:Bio standard and they are both notable. We can play this game for as long as you want but as long as you are not the one who owns Wiki, I will edit as I see fit. Threatening me shows your ignorance.

• I have no animosity to the school, open or closed. It's not whether you or I think that someone is notable; WP:BIO requires that independent sources be provided to establish notability, but none have been provided. There do seem to be sources available for Lou Reda, who might be the subject of a worthwhile article, but there is no evidence of a connection to PCHS. Korp seems to be more of a stretch. Obscurity doesn't preclude inclusion of an alumnus from inclusion in this article, but lack of sources is a very big problem. Alansohn 18:26, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
  • I whipped up an article for Lou Reda, but there doesn't seem to be much for Scott L. Reda, even on the bio on the company website. As of right now, all we have to go on is that you say they are notable and that they attended the school. Alansohn 18:57, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

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Important copyright issues

Hi, TomK. I appreciate your past efforts to create Wikipedia articles on New Jersey topics, but I'm afraid several of these have included passages that were very closely paraphrased from sources you usually didn't credit. This can be a serious problem on Wikipedia, under both our copyright policies and our guideline on plagiarism.

While facts are not copyrightable, creative elements of presentation are – including both structure and language. For some examples of overly close paraphrasing and uncredited sources, consider the following.

1. From your Timothy Wiltsey article (2007):

In April 1992, Timmy’s remains were discovered in a creek that runs through a remote, marshy area behind Raritan Center, a vast industrial park in Edison, NJ where Lodzinski once worked as a secretary.

Similarly from http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2014/08/post_357.html (published 2001):

Eleven months later, the child's yellowed skull was discovered in a creek that runs through the remote, marshy area behind Raritan Center, a vast industrial park in Edison where Lodzinski once worked as a secretary.

2. From your Raritan Center article (2007):

Raritan Center includes the New Jersey Convention and Exposition Center, several hotels, three banks, a travel agency, a day care center, the main studio and newsroom of News 12 New Jersey, and a U.S. Post Office, as well the regional operations for both United Parcel Service and Federal Express.

Similarly from https://web.archive.org/web/20040908042417/http://www.SAIrealestate.com/raritan-cntr.html (published 2004):

This includes the New Jersey Convention and Exposition Center, several hotels, three banks, a travel agency, a day care center, and a U.S. Post Office, as well the regional operations for both UPS and Federal Express.

3. From your Phillipsburg Catholic High School article (2007):

Formal Catholic education in the Phillipsburg area began in 1875 when Reverend Cornelius J. O'Reilly and the parishioners of Sts. Philip and James Church decided to erect a school for the academic and moral education of the parish youth.

Similarly from https://web.archive.org/web/20010503110155/http://www.catholic-church.org/sspj/about/history.htm (published 2001 or earlier):

Formal Catholic education in the Phillipsburg area began in 1875 when Reverend Cornelius J. O'Reilly and the parishioners of St. Philip and St. James Church decided to erect a school for the academic and moral education of the parish youth.

These are just three examples; there are many other sentences that also follow quite closely.

As a website that is widely read and reused, Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. Wikipedia's copyright policies require that the content we take from non-free sources, aside from brief and clearly marked quotations, be rewritten from scratch – and properly footnoted. So that we can be sure Wikipedia does not constitute a derivative work, these articles need to be rewritten to separate them further from their sources. I did this myself last week for the Timothy Wiltsey article; I hope you can soon make similar revisions for Raritan Center and Phillipsburg Catholic High School and any other articles where you may have had this problem. The essay WP:Paraphrase includes suggestions for rewriting to help avoid these issues. The article WP:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-04-13/Dispatches also contains some suggestions that may be helpful for reusing material from sources, beginning under "Avoiding plagiarism".

Good luck, and please let me know if you have questions about this important issue. —Patrug (talk) 21:41, 28 February 2016 (UTC)

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