Talk:Riverdale Country School

message: "Riverdale Country School puts very little emphasis on balancing a student's academic, arts, and athletic careers."
This might well be true, but the sections on athletics and arts seem to suggest that much emphasis or at least some emphasis, rather than very little, is put on balance. Shakescene (talk) 08:23, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Correct wording about balance? 

message: Wow.  This article is a mess.  It reads like a marketing tool for the school.  Just a warning:  It is not going to stay that way.  There are guidelines about what should and shouldn't be in a school article.  They can be found at WP:SCH/AG.  There are also policies on neutrality (WP:NPOV) and promotion (WP:PROMO) that this article clearly violate.
Be advised this is an article about the school.  It in no way belongs to the school, nor is it for the school.  Its purpose is to summarize what others have written about the school in a manner that informs the entire English speaking world about the school. 
I am writing this here to give others who may care about the school a chance to try to clean this article up.  I have no access to anything about this school that is not on the internet, so be advised.  Within a week, I will begin to re-write it using the information I have available to me.  Given that that is not very much, the article will be about 4 paragraphs long.  And that will be a big improvement over what is here now! John from Idegon (talk) 04:14, 17 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  sheeeeesh 

message: Under Notable Alumni I notice Edward Rendell (past Mayor of Philadelphia, Governor of Pennsylvania, DNC Chairman) is not mentioned but should be. Please include him.
71.230.244.25 (talk) 17:52, 10 August 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: There is no referenced content in his biographical article here on Wikipedia connecting him to the school.  Provide a reliable source reference to his attendance and I will be happy to add him.  BTW, his bio is at Ed Rendell. John from Idegon (talk) 19:15, 10 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 10 August 2015 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Leopold Mannes and Leopold Godowsky, Jr., both of whom created the first practical color transparency film, Kodachrome. Sean Altman, founder of Rockapella. Varian Fry, a journalist. John Lahr, a theatre critic. Neal Conan, a journalist. Philip Proctor, a voice actor. Lee MacPhail, a baseball hall-of-fame former front-office executive. John Kao, author. Josh Appelbaum, television writer. Claude Kelly, singer-songwriter. Fred Melamed, actor. David Levin, CEO of McGraw-Hill Education. Jeffrey Vinik, owner of Tampa Bay Lighting, and minority owner of Boston Red Sox. Robin Pogrebin, journalist. Francis Fukuyama, political scientist. Jackson Harris, singer. My source is http://www.ranker.com/list/famous-riverdale-country-school-alumni-and-students/reference. I have many more notable alumni I can add to the page, but these are the most notable of them.
http://www.ranker.com/list/famous-riverdale-country-school-alumni-and-students/reference
173.77.203.231 (talk) 23:45, 5 March 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: In order to be included as notable alumni, a person has to be notable (shown by having a bio on Wikipedia) and an alumni (attended the school for any length of time. Graduating is not necessary.) If they have a bio on Wikipedia they are notable, but reliable sources are required to show their attendance. These can be in their bio but if not must be here.  Ranker, a search result and Wikipedia itself are not reliable sources. After checking half a dozen of your additions,  I reverted them all. John from Idegon (talk) 04:11, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Here are some more people I think should be under notable alumni: 

message: @Gbabuch added a whole plethora of tags, so can we discuss which of them is really necessary, or in some cases: what do they actually mean?
*Which ideas, incidents, or controversies are UNDUE?
*Which facts are disputed?
*Where is the promo? 
*What is not sufficently neutral?
*What's the point of the "biography of a living person" tag?
*Where do we need additional citations for verification?
Melchior2006 (talk) 07:22, 18 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Since no one chimed in on this, I will take the tags out. --Melchior2006 (talk) 07:54, 23 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggestions for improvement 

message: This section is appropriate to the extent that it neutrally informs readers of some controversies about the school but some of the language failed to make clear the distinction between facts and allegations. I attempted to make it neutral and to remove trivial/redundant information. D.Holt (talk) 22:29, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I disagree. The replacement for the Pledge of Allegiance and naming Bion Bartning who withdraw his children from the school, protesting "a kind of religion taking hold in American education" is well-sourced and relevant detail, certainly not trivia. Then we have the use of "leftist indoctrination" as a quote from a source. This accurately reflects the criticism coming from parents. --Melchior2006 (talk) 16:33, 17 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Since no one chimed in on this, I will restore the original version. I did, however, keep D.Holt's "allegedly" to tone down a bit. -- Melchior2006 (talk) 10:05, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  In the Media section