Talk:John Burroughs School

message: I do believe that the date for William S. Burroughs attendance is off by a few decades.  He was born, according to Wikipedia, in 1914.  I doubt that he was... what... 45 when he graduated highschool.
:yeah, if that is supposed to be the year he graduated, it is definitely wrong. he did not graduate from JBS at all. 1959 was, if memory serves, the year that Naked Lunch was first published. i removed it. 69.181.121.40 16:29, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
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message: You removed the improper reference to self-published sources tag from the John Burroughs School page, but did not add any additional sources. As it stands, the only reference on that WP page is to a fact page on the school site, which can only be described as a self-published reference. Are you planning on adding any additional citations, or did you deem the additional citations needed tag that was also in place sufficient? I believe that having both tags in place is proper, as the page needs both additional sources and improperly references self-published materials, and so I put the tag back in place. Thanks! Roscoestl (talk) 16:25, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree that the article needs more sources. Disagree that saying, "Here's some info provided by the organization's own website," then properly citing that website, is an improper ref. The intelligent use of Wikipedia requires every user to evaluate cited sources; one may take any citation, including organizations' own websites, with a grain of salt, depending on one's judgement. Therefore, removed one tag, left other. Moreover, I added "according to the school's website" to make the source clear, even to a quick reader. PRRfan (talk) 17:16, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: This is one of the many articles that I watch, have knowledge of, and would like to expand, but need to find the time. I guess the main reason I added the ref tag was because that was the only citation on here. Agreed after more thought on the subject that the additional sources tag is sufficient.Roscoestl (talk) 01:35, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
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message: I still don't see any cites that indicate this got national attention. The cite currently points to one Post-Dispatch columnist. Also, a dozen comments on a public bulletin board are neither particularly notable, nor a reliable indication of much reaction in the local community, so I have removed the Tree of Liberty cite. That leaves no indication that the controversy drew much notice outside the Catholic community. PRRfan (talk) 15:36, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Some comments on one bulletin board do not "national attention" make. The phrase connotes a much bigger deal, as if, for example, several news networks or major newspapers ran stories about it, bringing it to the attention of millions of people. I'm not saying major news coverage is the only qualifier for "national attention," but it's got to be a higher bar than a posting on a smallish bulletin board that draws a few dozen comments from readers who happen to live in various states. PRRfan (talk) 15:41, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

text: The farther this recedes in time, the less encyclopedic this seems. The apogee of community outrage would seem to be "dozens of posts" (both pro and con) on a single web site. Even given that the school ultimately apologized, the kerfuffle just doesn't seem to have been that big a deal. I'd support deleting the paragraph, or at least paring it down. PRRfan (talk) 21:14, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

text: It was pretty much exactly a kerfuffle; cheeky invitations go out, some people take offense, school apologizes. Lasting consequence: just about zero. PRRfan (talk) 16:19, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

text: Tightened; demoted. PRRfan (talk) 16:12, 14 March 2013 (UTC)
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