Wikipedia talk:Dashboard/schoolwatch/Archive 1

message: This article survived a Vote for Deletion. The discussion can be found here. -Splash 02:35, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Vote for Deletion

message: This one needs some expansion. --TimPope 10:15, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Northview High School, Duluth Georgia]] 

message: Without meaning to, over the past five months I've become a principal commentator and enthusiastic cheerleader in the absolutely fascinating debate on schools.  I've enjoyed interacting with just about everybody involved.  Again without meaning to, I've somehow become the principal maintainer of the lists--I update and prune the list of schools up for deletion, copyvios, etc, and I have created and maintained an archive of school deletion discussions, as well as summarising the results in the table on the main page.  More recently I've created a week or so of snapshot of new school articles.
It was this latter that shocked me out of my little bubble.  It's evident to me that the AfD discussions, except insofar as they result in the improvement of school articles, is a sideshow.  School articles are being created at a much greater rate than they are being deleted.  In the circumstances I feel that I could spend my energies more effectively elsewhere; nothing AfD could do would ever stop the growth and improvement of school articles on Wikipedia.
So I'm moving on. Effective immediately, I will no longer maintain any part of schoolwatch.  You'll still see me around, but you probably won't see me involved in school deletion discussions to the same extent.  Remember that at least one other editor maintains a schoolwatch subpage in his user space.  If anyone has some spare time, and a broadband connection, it takes about ten minutes to search the Afd day log (linked from User:Tony Sidaway/Deletion) for the current day, copy the names of any schools from the contents list, and add relevant links to the watch list and the archive.  I usually search on the character strings "colleg", "demy" (for academy) and "school".  If you do that once a day the watchlist and the archive will be maintained.  Which would be nice, but not so nice that I myself am prepared to keep on doing it.  Five months or so has been fun, and I've seen some interesting and promising changes. --Tony SidawayTalk 19:38, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: I'm moving on

message: Why do we list schools here, if there listed at Wikipedia:Watch/schoolwatch/Votes for deletion archive, which shows the most recent additions on top, where there easy to find?   It seems the list here is often out-of-date, and it would be best to remove it (keeping everything else as is).  --rob 10:35, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Get rid of duplication 

message: Er, not exactly clear on the procedures for getting school articles improved (I'm sort of in a hurry here), but this new article on a high school needs sufficient cleanup and wikifying. --FuriousFreddy 15:25, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[South Luton High School]] 

message: FYI, there's a new subpage for adding notable alumni, for school's without having articles yet.  Rather than just making a substub with the one alum, or throwing out the info, I made Wikipedia:WikiProject Schools as a repository.  When a school has a enough notable alumni and other signficant information, an article can be made, and the info transferred.  Also, when picking which school to write a new aricle on, one factor to consider is how many notable alumni the school has.  This is out of article space, so no regular users will see it.  --Rob 06:01, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedia:WikiProject Schools/alumni 

message: I'm pretty much opposed to the agenda of the "pro-school-inclusionists" in Wikipedia ( usual reasons ). But when a school becomes "notable" I feel we should have an article. Accordingly, I'd like to request an entry in Wikipedia for Bennett Elementary School in Bennett, Colorado, following today's controversy over the showing of an opera video to some students. WMMartin 18:50, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: If you wish an article on this school, then go do it.  You show a rather negative attitude in your comments, and it would be unfortunate, if anybody responded to you by doing your bidding (though if they were going to make an article on it anyhow, that would be fine).  Do you plan on posting a talk message every time you read about a school in the news?  Schools do make the news all the time, and if you wish to write about any one of them, go ahead and do so. --Rob 23:45, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bennett, Colorado