Talk:Mira Costa High School

message: I read somewhere, maybe in "A Walk Beside the Sea" or some other local history book, that the land Costa is built on was taken from Japanese people interned during World War II.  I know wikipedia is sometimes used by organizations as a second home page, but this unflattering fact (if true) deserves to see the light of day.
Does anyone have a source that can refute this?  Where did the city get the land?  Does anyone have "A Walk Beside the Sea?"
See https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0263775820909836: "By 1950, a portion of the Uyematsu’s former Manhattan Beach “estate” became the site of Mira Costa High School."  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Keweln (talk • contribs) 16:21, 2 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Land

message: Someone vandalized this page with consecutive edits. I reverted it back to the last clean version. Hopefully we won't have to lock this down...
   I changed the principal's name as it was clearly wrong.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Spencereness (talk • contribs) 19:11, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vandalism 

message: Tedder, I'm reverting your deletion. Did you notice I changed the heading from "Notable teachers" to "Outstanding teachers"? Fauver is an outstanding Mira Costa teacher, as is amply cited. This article is about that school. Almost all the details would be trivial by themselves, not being notable in and of themselves, but only in the context of the local school. This is fine for this article. It doesn't make sense to note the robotics program, the band, the choir, the orchestra, the color guard, etc., none of which are notable in and of themselves but, like Mr. Fauver, important only in the context of the school, while refusing to note the best-known, most famous teacher currently within the school. He's the "biggest" teacher there, and you're refusing to acknowledge him. Even Whirry, indisputably notable outside the Mira Costa context, does not have a WP bio. Regards, Yopienso (talk) 16:31, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Notability/outstandingness is defined by Mira Costa on Wikipedia, it's defined by Wikipedia's guidelines. Whirry doesn't have a bio but fairly clearly meets the standards. The reason I've suggested you write an article on Fauver, because Wikipedia has a process for evaluating the notability of individuals- and it isn't through leaving questionable material on school article pages. tedder (talk) 17:18, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: What is questionable? Did you check the citations? Do you doubt Fauver is famous in the school? Should we delete the band and orchestra and robotics and all the other stuff that's entirely non-notable outside the school? (It's hard to express attitudes in writing sometimes. I'm not upset or demanding, just trying to be logical.) Regards, Yopienso (talk) 17:34, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't doubt Fauver is famous in the school. That's fine. The other stuff, besides WP:OSE falls under WP:WPSCH/AG. It does need to be summarized more concisely. That's why I removed lists of students this morning. The general lists of sports teams also need to be removed, replaced by notable titles (State titles generally, but CIF-SS is okay) and any other notable events (if, for instance, they had a famous coach or some other newsworthy event). tedder (talk) 17:37, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: OK. thanks for your work. Fyi, I have no iron in this fire. Can't remember how I came across the article, but it had a tag on it and I tried to help. I'd never heard of the school before. Yopienso (talk) 19:32, 26 March 2012 (UTC)

text: Fauver could fit in this article, along with other teachers who have received Countywide or greater recognition (LA is a very large county, after all), but there seems to be too much current detail in his paragraph.  And if he fits, ther are dozens of other teachers over the school's history who would fit in such a list, which would require breaking it out into a standalone list article and then defending it at AfD. Good luck.--Hjal (talk) 20:06, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fauver 

message: These are at Wikipedia:WikiProject Schools/Article guidelines. It would be nice if this article followed them. Dougweller (talk) 17:30, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Guidelines for school articles 

message: I just wrote up a little summary of a controversy that occurred during the filming of a Snoop Dogg movie at Costa, and thought it's filming at Costa should be mentioned in the TV and Film section. Anyone with the admin privileges to do so should add it!--MyNameIsJason (talk) 06:59, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Mac and Devin Go to High School]] 

message: Please restore the material I verified and cited. It's pretty standard to list school activities. I am not promoting the school: I've never seen it, don't know anybody who ever went there, have no vested interest whatsoever in it. Thanks, YoPienso (talk) 03:01, 21 December 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Delete that stuff if you must, but not the appearances at Carnegie or the Grammy grant, etc. Compare Miss Porter's School. YoPienso (talk) 03:07, 21 December 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: You go ahead and delete that stuff. The moment you reinstate 12k of promotional drivel, you take ownership of it. Drmies (talk) 03:34, 21 December 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: ...but thanks for the suggestion. Drmies (talk) 03:41, 21 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removal of school activities