Talk:Balboa High School (California)

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All (potential) article editors should peruse WikiProject Schools, Manual of Style, About, and especially What Wikipedia is not. Thanks Zedla 03:02, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Mock Trial Section
The following IPs have consistently edited the mock trial section with weasel words in regards to a "controversial" mock trial season last year or "inevitably" losing: 69.85.188.175 and 69.85.188.91 Quixotic Rick 00:01, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
 * They appear to be 'good faith' but otherwise unseemly unsubstantiated edits, I left a welcome message for both IP's but if it recurs again I'd slowly start ratcheting up the warning levels (see WP:UWT) and pointing to specific guidelines/policies before asking for admin intervention. Zedla 00:18, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

GA Review
GA pass. I like this article, pretty good for a school with relatively few students. Good under Phoenix'''Two 02:29, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Phoenix2, Thanks for the superquick GA review and for explaining the use of Talk header (I was wondering why it was removed on the initial "B" assessment). Zedla 05:06, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

To-Do List: Expansions
I'm a current student and can find anything in regards to academic resurgence to expand it seeing as it is on the to-do list. I was just wondering if there were any specifics that any regular editor and contributor of this page had in mind. Also, I'd like to let the regular contributors of this page know that I will be fixing up the JROTC section to meet NPOV. Quixotic Rick (talk) 09:19, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I guess by regular you mean me ;) . It would be great if more could be said about the school academics before the 1990's. The nature of research by internet results in a bias towards events since the mid 90's.  If you'd like to expand more on what has gone on recently, there has been discussion in the media about the effect of Williams v. California so that could be expanded.   Just, please please please keep the wikipedia pillars on WP:Original Research, WP:Reliable Sources, and WP:Verifiability (aka it's not what you know is true, it's what you can prove is true) in mind.  I've added a few other things to the list if anyone wants to take those up.   – Zedla (talk) 06:25, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Of course, I mean you; I'll get to it. Thanks for all the work to this article. It's really improved from what it used to be. :) We've really made it incredible.

--Quixotic Rick (talk) 06:40, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

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Williams v. California
The link to Williams v. California -- and a new page -- were added because of the case and settlement's increased significance in California education system policies.

See https://www.google.com/search?q=eliezer+williams+v+state+of+california LoneStarNot (talk) 13:53, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

Undue Personification
Citing the names of individuals is an an undue weighting. Citing "California", "Californians" or "the State of California", etc, adheres better to DUE. It is only significant that the 40M citizens of California set a policy through their state government; who was in a particular office at the time is not significant. Those seeking info on an individual can go to that individual's page, where particular actions may or may not be catalogued, based on DUE.

A state governor not vetoing a law is not noteworthy. An award grantor or recipient name may be noteworthy; but a nominator name is not. Public officials executing routine tasks, part of their jobs, is not noteworthy. For such usual, routine actions of public employees, citing individual names is inappropriate aggrandizement and distorting personification -- a tragedy of the reputation commons which diverts credit from the group to the individual, inappropriately narrows readers' focus from groups to individuals, and distracts from understanding the need for groups, not just individuals, to effect such actions. By shifting attention and esteem from groups to individuals, such distortions feed cult-of-personality trends.

For example, it would violate DUE to cite Jimbo Wales regarding every action of our legion of editors. LoneStarNot (talk) 19:40, 11 September 2020 (UTC)