Talk:Taipei American School

message: I have removed the recently added controversy section, which has been removed by others, due to its unverified and non-neutral nature. See Wikipedia:Verifiability and Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view. This section addressed an incident and presented certain claims about it that cannot be independently verified. The cited article merely indicates that there was a dispute and presents statements made by multiple parties without verifying or invalidating any of the statements. The additions made included unnecessary speculation about motives, which further indicate the contributor's failure to abide by neutral point of view (NPOV) guidelines. 
An inappropriate addition was made by a second contributor seemingly attacking the first and also making unverified statements about the incident in question. This has also been removed.
If anyone continues to wish to see this issue covered by the article, I invite you to discuss how we can do so in a neutral, verified manner before making any edits to the article itself. 
--Waphle (talk) 08:27, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: New Controversy section regarding potential sexual assault case

message: Most of this article is written by people affliated with TAS. It makes TAS seem a lot more important than it really is. I think we should delete unnecessary details. Nr9 11:34, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vanity 

message: 
can someone change 
 "military era."
in the third paragraph of the "History" section to
 "military era".
for me? Thanks. J. Finkelstein 04:59, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  edit request for protected page 

message: The WASC report always report positive and negative things about every school.  Should we then include a WASC report for every school listed on the Wikipedia?  What would the people editting the pages of the other WASC schools think?  There would be discussion boards erupting with everyone shouting at each other in such as case.
Let's do a case study: Berkeley High School in Berkeley, California was once stripped of its WASC accreditation and this information appeared on the Daily Californian, the independent student-run newspaper of UC Berkeley.  If Taipei American School did lose WASC accreditation, then this would be serious stuff that would be acceptable to be posted on the Wikipedia because the lost of accreditation would be public and open.  Note that the Wikipedia article on Berkeley High says nothing about that school losing its WASC accreditation.  Maybe somebody could add the Berkeley High WASC-status information and tell me what happens several days later.
The Wikipedia is an open-content encyclopedia.  I'm very disturbed by the following statement:  A WASC report for private schools is shared within a school community but it is considered a confidential document and only the school can decide to make it public.  In that case, there is a violation of confidentiality rules because a confidential document is not supposed to be open content without prior permission.  The Wikipedia can get into legal problems over this unless it received permission from either Taipei American School or WASC.  People who post the WASC report here without permission from TAS or WASC might end up forcing the WASC to adopt more confidential methods in protecting its reports about all schools in the future.
As for Vanity, if we applied a loose definition of vanity, then I dare say that a majority of people should not be contributing to the Wikipedia.  Rules are meant to regulate rather than to overdo things.  A loose definition of vanity is overdoing things.
The average Taiwanese/ROC Joe and Jane doesn't really think much about TAS.  None of my co-workers here in Taiwan have any negative or positive opinion about TAS: they don't care about its existence.  Be careful of using the ROC press in justifying your claims, especially when the US State Department Human Rights Report for Taiwan has started to note that the press in Taiwan has been violating the right to privacy and when there are reports that the press do not properly verify their sources. Allentchang 02:56, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Then perhaps it is fair to include a WASC for EVERY school

message: The WASC report has stirred up quite a discussion here at TAS especially during the election to the Board of Directors on April 24. Many parents expected a high voter turnout in support of two candidates with a background in education. 
Many were surprised that instead the turnout was only 37.1%, none of the educators were elected and a professional lawyer got the most votes. 
I have some evidence that the vote was not fair (more details at My Blog )  but the board confirmed the vote.
 
The current voting procedure does not include a secret ballot. The members of the election committee are selected by one person, the chair of the board.
There is no independent oversight of the vote counting process. That means the are no checks and balances in place to prevent vote rigging by the election committee.
GMayer 09:19, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This is a discussion page which serves to update relevant information about the subject, here specifically to better understand TAS culture. 
It is also noteworthy that TAS does not have an internal electronic forum where members of the TAS community can exchange views and opinions. The administration finds that they don't have the manpower to supervise a discussion forum within TAS. So the discussion page on Wikipedia is the only forum today to discuss general TAS issues.
GMayer 16:38, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

text: Wikipedia is not a discussion forum, regardless of whether or not others exist. Also, please do not edit your previous comments. I'm sorry if you have any personal grievances against TAS due to you not being elected to the board of directors, but Wikipedia is not the place to discuss it. -- Mattrixed Talk 07:53, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

text: The Discussion tab is meant for a discussion on how to change the article for the better, and for any disputes about the article's content. In this case, it isn't meant to be a discussion on the politics of TAS. Also, Wikipedia prohibits original research, so however accurate your claims are, they cannot be included in an article unless they come from verifiable sources (which from what I saw when I looked at your website, doesn't seem to be the case). Also, my vandalism of the George Clooney page is irrelevant. It was my first time on Wikipedia and I wanted to see if I could really change the page. -- Mattrixed Talk 04:44, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changes at TAS? 

message: This is another new development at TAS: As far as everyone can remember the past, there was always a waiting list (up to 200 long) for student admission and students sometimes had to wait for several years before being admitted to TAS. 
Following the WASC report, the board election, and the dismissal of the superintendent, this situation has now changed dramatically: Not only have the lower school waiting lists evaporated over the summer but even as of the beginning of the second week of school there are still spaces available for grades 1,3,4,5. 
If you live in Taiwan, you also might be interested in the discussion on forumosa.com
GMayer 18:24, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: How does that information relate to this article? -- Mattrixed Talk 22:20, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

text: Thanks for the link. I agree with the guy who said it may be too expensive for some English speakers to attend TAS. I was lucky enough to have my dad's employer cover it since I was only there for 2 years. Having said that, I still think one of the main reasons for drop in enrollment is that fewer businesses are bringing foreign employees to Taiwan. Business has boomed in China, and the Taiwan business boom is ending. -- Mattrixed Talk 11:40, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  TAS still looking for English speaking new students + Superintendent 

message: Scott Sommers posted an extensive summary of the current TAS crisis on his
Taiwan Weblog
GMayer 02:38, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Taipei American School on Scott Sommer's Taiwan Weblog 

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