Talk:Grosse Pointe South High School

message: It is much more helpful to try to work with people to cite their sources or to try to cite their sources yourself than it is to delete large swaths of clearly well-intentioned articles. Particularly if all you're doing is a drive-by edit with no regard for the state of the article after your earth-scorching. It's like seeing a plant in need of some water, sunlight, and a little fertilizer and instead of tending to the plant you take a blowtorch to it because whatever power trip you're on blinds you from seeing any potential. You are not helping increase the knowledge of humanity by doing this.
It is also important to be mindful of how you approach editing articles highly relevant to specific communities. For instance, this article is of very minor importance to people in, say, Oregon, but is of very major importance to people living in Grosse Pointe. I reckon that most people who have ever visited or edited this article are people who either attended the high school or have lived in Grosse Pointe. So if you're a person sitting at your computer in Oregon, who likely has never been to Grosse Pointe let alone attended Grosse Pointe South High School, and are about to delete half the article that you never would have visited if not for your power trip, please keep in mind you're deleting the work that an entire community spent years doing. Musicals, school plays, concerts, athletic and scholastic achievement, pictures of all of it. Gone with a click. You are not helping increase the knowledge of humanity by doing this.
Especially so if you're doing all this because someone years ago forgot or didn't know how to add citations for a book they've read. I mean, seriously, you're deleting half an article because you didn't see book citations? What are the odds you would've even got a copy of the book to verify the citations? I'd say close to zero if I'm being generous.
I'm writing this because a few months ago half of the contents of this article was removed in a single day by a single Wikipedian who made absolutely no effort to help. A fair portion of the deleted contents were even things already verified or easily verifiable.
You are not helping increase the knowledge of humanity by deleting text like "In 1993, Grosse Pointe South was added to the National Register of Historic Places for its significance in architecture, art, and education" due to not seeing a citation. Especially when there was a link to the NRHP listing already in the article and all you had to do was click that link, verify the information, and add the citation.
So, please, fellow Wikipedians, either try to help or leave the article alone. The whole point of Wikipedia is to learn things. If you're an editor and you spend most of your time deleting things and reverting edits, you're probably doing Wikipedia wrong. I get that deleting and reverting are super easy things to do and you can do a whole bunch of them in a single session. But I guarantee you'll start feeling a lot more fulfilled if you actually start trying to improve articles. You might even learn something.
'lectric eye (talk) 16:15, 8 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  A suggestion for Wikipedians doing drive-by edits on this article 

message: seems to be copied from :http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/detroit/d3.htm.  It is not going to last much longer unless someone explains something. Carptrash 20:48, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I wouldn't remove it outright. The NPS site is public domain, so there is no copyright violation, just lazy editing. Some pruning and revision would certainly be in order though. older ≠ wiser 20:56, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Much of this article  

message: Article has gotten out of hand re: mention of faculty, students, trivia. WP:WPSCH/AG offers guidelines related to school articles; for instance: 
:# Mention significant championships for the sports teams. Specific students should not be mentioned unless they are notable in their own right.
:# Notable teachers/faculty — The names of current and former teachers should only be included if they are notable in their own right (for example, they are published authors or they have won a teaching award) or they have been the subject of multiple non-trivial press coverage.
Like a lot of high school articles, this has become a newsletter. JNW (talk) 00:38, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Speaking of pruning...

message: I don't see how this is relevant.  It's a blip in the history of the school. Bill Heller (talk) 04:08, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Martin Luther King Visit 

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*Added archive https://web.archive.org/20080516215014/http://hof.jrn.msu.edu/bios/button.html to http://hof.jrn.msu.edu/bios/button.html
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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Hello fellow Wikipedians,
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*Added archive https://web.archive.org/20160128235649/http://gpschools.schoolwires.net/gpsouth to http://gpschools.schoolwires.net/gpsouth/
*Added archive https://web.archive.org/20120914061822/http://gpschools.schoolwires.net:80/gpnorth to http://gpschools.schoolwires.net/gpnorth/
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thread_title:  External links modified