Talk:Alabama School of Mathematics and Science

Please note that the inaugural class entered in 1991 and graduated in 1993. You can note this on the website in many places on the ASMS website: the list of alumni association representatives, a guide for prospective students, etc. --Will Hester (talk) 20:02, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Why is there a blank "notable alumni" section? There shouldn't be a section before there are names to put there. --Laura McFarland '04

Who is Josh Connell ? First hits on Google reveal that he was a track runner for ASMS in 2003.

Perhaps it is the name of the person who added that line? It might just be someone with an ego, if nothing can be found on him. I say it should be removed. Shikan 16:29, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

This is all I could find on him. -- I vote for removal. As a sidenote though, it shouldn't be hard to find more "notable" alumni (especially if we're going to count scientists that are merely famous within their own field). Does the alumni assoc have records on this? http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Josh+Connell%22+%22Alabama+School%22

Now Will Nevin is under notable alumni. Through Google, it would seem that he's the opinion editor of the Crimson White and has won an award at the Southeast Journalism Conference. Does this count as 'notable' and how exactly should such criteria be evaluated for this space? Shikan 00:09, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Notability is tricky. However, these are the general guidelines:
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_%28people%29
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons

I reorganized the page. I left HTML comments in areas where I thought future contributions would be nice. I know it's bad to have an empty section entitled "Student Demographics", but I really want to see info on that so I left the section conspicuously blank hoping someone who knows about this will take it up. Cheers. Romanpoet 19:51, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

I might be able to help fill out the demographics section in a few days, but I'd like to ask a question first: would in be considered inappropriate to include that, when compared to the state as a whole, the school has a disproportionately large number of people who are openly homosexual?-Zarathura 04:49, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

If it can be solidly documented, I see no problem with it. However, I don't see how you could ever get sufficient data on this -- merely stating that this "seems to be true", would obviously not cut it. Romanpoet 22:58, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Good point, Romanpoet. I'll just leave that alone for now, then.

Geek Fest and other stuff
Its mildly amusing to see a detailed information on geekfest's history, especially since I was on the first staff, but I think the history needs to stripped out because theres not a real way to cite any of that information. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.220.236.251 (talk) 04:25, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

The students continue to contribute to the information about Geekfest. What more is necessary than that? There are a few students who check up on the Wikipedia article for ASMS to make sure the information is (somewhat) accurate, and that alone is enough. Who knows more about it than the students themselves? They are the source. -an ASMS student —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.146.207.247 (talk) 01:35, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Well this is wikipedia, not a personal website on ASMS. It doesn't matter if the students know the information is fact or not, if its not verifiable (meaning written, recorded etc.) according to encyclopedia's own guidelines. As the example they give, a physicist who writes a theory, can tell you the whole thing is false, you still can't put it in the article unless they're something to verify it. Personally I think the history should be deleted all together, and out right deleting it. But since its a substantial section it has to go through deletion process. Meaning put a deletion tag, and wait for a debate to happen. Also if you want to rely on students information, I know a chunk of the first organizers wouldn't agree completely with the origins. 74.226.4.173 07:13, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Agreed. There is no real point to a history of each event, even the first ones, or it starts to get bloated with people wanting coverage for 'their' geekfests. Should include a description and events, something everyone can agree on. If we listed all the people that contributed to it, we'd be here for weeks arguing over petty matters.Wolfimus (talk) 06:04, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

I originally put in the information about Geekfest and Stressfest. I felt it was important to have a record of the creation of the event while I could still remember it vividly, but it is also impossible to cite any of that information. I'm not sure how this problem should be alleviated. We could cut out all the history and leave only specific information on the content of the event. Looking over the article, there is a disporportionate amount of information about events at the school then actual information about programs, buildings, resources, etc. cloud1900 (talk) 13:23, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

I think the only real purpose of keeping geekfest, stressfest, oculus, azimuth if they are incorporated as part of a student life section, If anyone bothers to put serious time to editing this article. That section should of course have a scope far greater than just a few school traditions (In fact ideally the school traditions would be listed with a very big description. ASMS is a public boarding school, that it self is pretty rare so there is merit in creating and expanding a section on student life. As well as one on academics.   As written the only place for that section is an ASMS Wiki not on Wikipedia. ~Nanashi 128.189.169.23 (talk) 22:01, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

www.asmsalumni.org link is to a private IP address. Who is doing web development for that site, and what exactly is going on there? This is going to piss off potential donors AND alumni. The website is not fully functional neither is it parked by any reputable domain name registrar. Get on the ball. -[quarkedcharm] —Preceding unsigned comment added by Quarkedcharm (talk • contribs) 00:05, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

Agree, not sure about that alumni website, plus it's not an active website anymore --Lahti213 (talk) 16:23, 2 January 2022 (UTC)

External links modified
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 * Added archive http://web.archive.org/web/20100527222542/http://www.asms.net:80/about.htm to http://www.asms.net/about.htm


 * Added archive http://web.archive.org/web/20110717025643/http://www.asms.net/sTUDENTLIFE/geekfest/website/history.html to http://www.asms.net/sTUDENTLIFE/geekfest/website/history.html

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