Category talk:High schools in Pennsylvania

Catholic Schools
Why were catholic schools taken out of "High Schools in Pennsylvania"? You'll notice it doesn't say public schools in Pennsylvania, it's all HS in Pennsylvania.I will be putting them back in that category.Tstrobaugh 03:53, 26 February 2007 (UTC) Category:High schools in Pennsylvania, they were not included in Category:High schools in Philadelphia. Please refer to Classification and Categorization.
 * Category:Roman Catholic secondary schools in Philadelphia is a subset
 * Yes, Category:Roman Catholic secondary schools in Philadelphia isn't completely correct. I was thinking of making a name change nomination to Category:Roman Catholic secondary schools in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.
 * --evrik (talk) 18:18, 26 February 2007 (UTC)


 * I would be happy to adjust the categories, but my understanding of Classification and Categorization leads me to believe that you don't have schools in two categories in the same hierarchy. --evrik (talk) 19:11, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
 * How many categories of High Schools do you propose? There are Baptist, Muslim etc. You have not discussed how you will categorize all the High schools, you have just started editing. Please stop until the categories are agreed upon.Tstrobaugh 19:49, 26 February 2007 (UTC)


 * There are enough Roman Catholic High Schools in the area to justify the subcategory. --evrik (talk) 20:33, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Why are you dividing the HS along religious lines? Please answer this question before we can go further. A more pragmatic approach would be geographically. It's obvious they should remain together, they play each other in district playoff sports.Tstrobaugh 20:34, 26 February 2007 (UTC)


 * These high schools weren't included in Category:High schools in Philadelphia. It made sense to create a new category. --evrik (talk) 20:41, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
 * You are still not discussing any the issues here. I don't know why not. You have not explained any of your plans or reasoning. I can only assume that either you are not able to explain what it is you plan to do, or you are not willing. Neither of those is conducive to a collaborative effort such as wikipedia. I'll help you. Here are the options if you truly believe the category HS in Pennsylvania is too big. 1. you can subdivide it along geographical lines (geopolitical really) such as it already is divided. HS in the US, HS in PA, HS in ... either major Metropolitan areas, or by county. 2. you can subdivide it along school district administrative lines, District 1, 2, 3 etc., They already exist, it's how the sports teams are divided up when in playoffs. 3. you can divide it along political lines, Pennsylvania Representative districts etc (there are 203 of them). Please discuss the pros and cons of each of these and then we will make a collaborative decision. Thank you.Tstrobaugh 22:03, 26 February 2007 (UTC)


 * I have discussed my thoughts. What else can I say? --evrik (talk) 22:04, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
 * While I can understand splitting the catgory, unless the two categories would be renamed "Public high schools in Pennsylvania" and "Private high schools in Pennsylvania" I am also not sure I see the rationale for the split. Having made school district maps for each county with more than one school district in the state, I think most of Pennsylvania has too low a population density to make the geographic categories smaller than the state make sense. If you do go for Philadelphia and Pittsburgh subcats, I would use the federal Metropolitan area defs for the geography (and not diocesan or congressional or other subdistricts). Ruhrfisch 19:49, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
 * I think the reasoning to creating a distinction between public and Roman Catholic schools in Philadelphia would be that they are the only two large categories of linked school systems in Philadelphia. There are a lot of Quaker schools, for instance, but they are not connected by one governing body, as is the school system of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. Rmilligan 09:38, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

Question: Why is it suggested that Bishop Hoban High School be merged with Holy Redeemer High School? They are separate entities, despite being housed in the same building. As a former student of Bishop Hoban, it'd be nice to at least have the Wikipedia article up so people can know it once existed. Don't merge it with Holy Redeemer. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.238.205.193 (talk) 19:39, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Diffuse tag
This category is large and could stand to be diffused. --evrik (talk) 20:33, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

PAVCS: another PA high school
Pennsylvania Virtual Charter School should be added to the list of PA high schools. --CharliePATpk 17:48, 17 October 2007 (UTC)