Talk:St. Thomas Aquinas High School (Ohio)

message: I deleted the line about the school requiring community service for graduation. I am currently a senior at St. Thomas, and no such requirement exists. Starsquare16 16:51, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incorrect 

message: Someone should make an infobox for the school, since the article contains quite a bit of sufficient info to be put into it. --Dan LeveilleTALK 03:52, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Infobox 

message: :Image:St. Thomas Aquinas High School (Ohio) seal.jpg	:Image:St. Thomas Aquinas High School (Ohio) seal.jpg
Principal                                            	Mr. Joseph Vagedes
President                                            	Fr. Thomas Dyer
School type                                          	Parochial, Co-ed
Religious affiliation                                	Roman Catholic
Location                                             	Louisville, Ohio, United States
2121 Reno Dr. N.E.
Mascot                                               	Knight (John McClellen)
School newspaper                                     	"The Lance"
School Yearbook                                      	"The Templar"
School motto                                         	"Truth, Scholarship, Excellence"
School colors                                        	Black, and Gold
i also posted this on the school's main page   enjoy  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Drewy747 (talk • contribs) 04:36, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: and here is your infobox

message: :Image:St. Thomas Aquinas High School (Ohio) seal.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.
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BetacommandBot (talk) 04:56, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:St. Thomas Aquinas High School (Ohio) seal.jpg

message: I removed quite a bit of stuff from the article as it was loaded with copyrighted and unreferenced material.  The entire section on the seal was a cut-and-paste from the school's website.  Not only is that a copyright violation (even with a link to the website), but it's in violation of Wikipedia's "Not a Mirror" policy. Also, unless the seal has been covered in the media somehow, it really doesn't need an entire section of its own in an article like this.  If it has some significant history behind it, it can easily be included in a history section if needed.
  
Next, there were lots of "was well known" or "is known for".  Remember, Wikipedia is for a worldwide audience, so few outside (and not everyone inside) "knows about" this school for their sports or academics, or whatever.  When a statement like that is made it needs to come from a reliable third-party source.  Most times, schools are somewhat known locally for certain things, but once you leave that small geographic area, no one has even heard of the school.  That goes with some of the word choices too, like "rigorous" or "quality", words that are point of view and are highly subjective.  Unless they have a reliable and neutral source (i.e. not the school's own website), the words shouldn't be there.   
 
Most of the notable alumni were removed because, well, they aren't notable.  Basically, if the person has a Wikipedia article, list them.  If not, don't list them.  There are rare exceptions to that policy, but the Notable alumni sections are to list notable people, not just successful people from the school.  The notability has to be from Wikipedia's notability standard, not the school's. 
 
I removed the whole "clubs and activities" section because it was just about the Junior Classical League club.  Those sections were mass added to numerous high school articles based on one website, regardless of whether the local OJCL chapter was even functioning or active.  
The article could use a referenced history section on the school itself and much more on academics (what kinds of classes are offered?  Any that are unique or notable?).  Remember when writing the article, it's not to promote the school; this is an encyclopedia article about the school.  Be sure to read WP:BOOSTER too.  --JonRidinger (talk) 04:45, 2 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleanup