Talk:Madison West High School

message: First, the trivia point about the band Locksley needs to be fixed--right now, it contains the line "Kai Kennedy (lead guitar) who replaced Justin or Josh something."
Second, the trivia point about the freshman girls volleyball team degrades the quality of the article. While state championships and the like are notable facts, poorly articulated, commonplace events like placing third in an unspecified championship don't belong here.
:I have removed several points in this section, which are either garbage or need to be placed elsewhere, but do not belong in the article per WP guidelines on trivia. Chris 10:11, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Trivia Section

message: *Support Shawn 23:49, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge with [[Madison West High School]]

message: I am going to move the information in the courses section into Trivia if I deem necessary and all other information merged in with introduction because it can be implied that the high school offers "courses in advanced math" like any other average US high school.  I don't think Madison West's advanced courses have any notability. --20:36, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think so.  I think the 2 different facts deserve two different bulletpoints because they are not dependent on one another.  The fact that courses are offered in more languages than normal to a high school is seperate from the fact that 90% of students take a language.  Furthermore, I think it will make this process a little easier if you use edit summary and we all note on the talk page why we are making changes.  Leave a message here or on my talk page if you want to discuss further.  Thanks and Happy Wiki! --Shawn 23:14, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Courses 

message: This page has been semi-protected due to vandalism. DurovaCharge! 12:50, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected 

message: Grammar correction:  You should edit the "it's" to "its" in the opening paragraph for Madison West.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.208.76.106 (talk • contribs) 
:Done. Hut 8.5 16:19, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Requested edit

message: This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 10:22, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject class rating

message: I am currently a student at West High School and I was bored, so I decided to take a look at the Wiki to see if anything interesting was here. While browsing the section that includes the listings of the world languages taught at West I noticed that there is no mention of the Japanese program which ranges from the primarily Freshman course of "Japanese I" to the upper levels of proficiency.
I just thought that this was something that should be pointed out seeing as quite a few students take it, however, for some reason German was not considered a world language either so if this was an intentional exemption of the information I would like some clarification. A second question that I would like to ask of the powers that be is that if everyone decided that the alumni that would be included had to have a wiki page, why do about half of them not have links/pages at all? - Dee  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.92.47.68 (talk) 20:44, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requesting Edit 

message: I propose that the Notable Alumni list only includes a list of people who merit their own article.
If a person does not merit a right to be in an encyclopedic work, then why would he or she be deemed notable enough to be referenced elsewhere in the encyclopedia?69.129.197.95 (talk) 03:25, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notable Alumni 

message: It appears that the West staff has been rather bad at updating the Clubs and Activities page for the various clubs at the school, and as such many clubs that I know for a fact exist in an official capacity are not listed. What would constitute a notable source for these clubs that are not also original research? I'd rather not delete Sheepshead Club, as it has become a fixture in the school culture (no, I can't verify this) for over a year now, but I don't think I can find a good source for it.  Additionally, the Notability tag is misused in the clubs section. The notability page specifically says "The notability guidelines do not limit content within an article." If there is no objection, I will delete the notability span from the "Clubs and Activities" section. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Quartinus (talk • contribs) 07:27, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clubs and Activities Page Problems 

message: The user Mesconsing posted that they had removed so-called "peacockery" from many of the sections describing the text. While the text was verbose, this also made the sections read like a back-issue of a 1967 New York State Official Tax Manual's description of the extracurricular activities of the school. I propose adding back some of this "peacockery" or as some call it, good writing, in order to make the sections readable. 
--Quartinus 06:38, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: See WP:PEACOCK. Our articles are supposed to be neutral and not written in such a way as to promote the subject. This is supposed to be an encyclopedia, not a brochure for the school. Hut 8.5 12:21, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Peacockery" deleted 

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