Talk:West Aurora High School

message: Alright listen here JohnDBuell, it isn't very nice of you to keep erasing my messages. How would you feel if I erased yours? I bet you'd feel pretty bad. So please, stop erasing my messages. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.79.197.128 (talk • contribs) 21:23, 12 November 2006.
:If mine violated policies, someone would be within their rights to delete them. Yours have continually violated WP:NPA and WP:CIVIL, and one could argue that you have also violated WP:SOCK due to multiple postings violating the first two policies that in turn come from multiple anonymous accounts, logged by their IP addresses. If you'd like to make contributions to the future, including contributions to actual articles, please make sure you've read over policies and are familiar with them. --JohnDBuell 03:30, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: User Dispute

message: The whois information is out of date, as Paul Byrd is no longer with the West Aurora public schools, but the official domains are sd129.org, d129.org, sd129.net (not in use) and d129.net (redirects to sd129.org). westaurorabaseball.com is only semi-official. It was registered by and run by one of the coaches, and it is currently linked from the official pages by the district's webmaster, but one of the district's plans is to move all athletics and activities onto their own pages on the official district website. I think it's overkill to add links to individual sports teams or activities, when they aren't that hard to find in their respective categories on the master website. --JohnDBuell 04:31, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Official district websites 

message: ...after Whitney Young Magnet High School, Chicago (CPS District #299). For proof, see  and click on the What's New or Gallery pages. Sorry if I burst any bubbles, but I'd told Donna the rights were available and WY was doing it already.... --JohnDBuell 14:04, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know who the vandal is, but I had a conversation about this with Donna Letzter, and she and I agreed that the current phrasing in the article (that WAHS is the first to perform the musical, fully staged) is correct, technically. It cannot be denied that WY performed music from the show in concert, their own website (linked above) says as much. --JohnDBuell 14:40, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  2nd High School to do Miss Saigon in Illinois... 

message: I just went through and deleted any students and/or staff.  Please read WP:SCH#WNTI, which is a part of the WikiSchools Project  that deals specifically with what not to include in school articles.  Students and staff are not to be mentioned, unless they are somehow noteworthy for something beyond just being a student or staff member (the subject of significant coverage in third party sources). Hapy editing! LonelyBeacon (talk) 22:23, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: What Not To Include

message: There was a robocall placed today to all residents of the West Aurora School District, informing them that sd129.org has been revamped, and is going to be relaunched over this weekend. That probably breaks a LOT of links to the official district website. Someone will likely want to go through the article and either see if they've been archived through something like the Wayback Machine, or if the same information has a new location on the new district website. --JohnDBuell (talk) 01:12, 3 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Links to sd129.org 

message: An encyclopedia by defininition is two things: Tertiary and neutral. It appears over time some have developed the notion that this article is for the promotion of the school. It is not. The edits  made today were approopriate, but not drastic enough.  refering to prior edits as vandalism was highly WP:UNCIVIL and indicative of an attitude of WP:OWN. This article is nothing resembling neutral and very little of it is tertiary. This will begin to change and soon. Please if you wish to edit this page make yourself aware of the policies on verifiability, burden, the BRD edit model and the school article guidelines. Thank you. John from Idegon (talk) 23:45, 4 October 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. I was mainly alarmed by the use of the term vandalism. The original edits (made by an admin, no less) were reasonable and fairly tame compared to what's called for. I retained a bit about the mascot controversy, since it seemed like something that could plausibly have sources. This Highbeam article might be one of them, but I don't have access to it. Lacking sources, its removal seems entirely justified. I think the music file is a nice touch, and it seems to me to be on the same scale as photos or logos or whatever. It appears to be having copyright problems, though, and again, I can see a strong case for its removal, so I'm not fighting to keep it in.  Grayfell (talk) 00:12, 5 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  What an encyclopedia is and isnt. 

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