Talk:Brookfield East High School

You can always ask for a third view? welcome Victuallers 14:53, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Senior Lounge

 * Why should the senior lounge be part of the article?
 * Why should the senior lounge be part of the article?

"Non-notable"

 * In regards to what BaronLarf deleted, I think that the present information is relevant to the information about Brookfield East High School. Wikipedia is not paper, and I think that we should include anything that contributes to the information about BEHS. --Shawn 20:44, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
 * The thing is, they aren't notable at all. They simply graduated from the school and came back to teach.  For example, life-long scholar?  I've been a student all my life, so why wouldn't I qualify as a life-long scholar?  In regards to the state-champs: they aren't notable either.  Why don't we include all the state champs in every sport/forensics/chess teams/ad nauseum?  There needs to be a line drawn, and including high school students who can tell good stories does not qualify them for being notable.  It doesn't lessen their achievements not to be listed on wikipedia, it just doesn't make them encyclopedic.  I also will pose a question: are the only acheivements from East related to the forensics team?  Have they nothing else that is notable?  If so, why aren't you adding the names of the students for each team that wins conference, takes second in conference, etc.?  I appreciate that you have great pride in your school (and you should), but randomly listing people on the webpage b/c you like them is not a good reason to list them.  --PaddyM 00:10, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
 * You do make a good arguement, I guess that in an effort to note anything relevant to the school would be my goal. Why I don't list other things is because I am not knowledgable of the school's other acheivements.  Others are welcome to contribute on those matters.  I am not randomly listing people either, in fact a lot of the people on the page i don't know or aren't even friends with.  So to suggest that I am inserting people's names just to publicise them would be incorrect.  I appreciate your efforts to make a good article but I still think that these are notable.  At the very least, I think it's reasonable to note faculty alumni.  Perhaps we can shrink the national competition section and the state competition section.  Thanks again, Shawn 00:57, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

--Shawn 03:06, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Please read WP:NN and/or Notability (people). Cheers. --BaronLarf 16:36, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I know very well the policy, but i still argue it is notable. But since it's Wiki policy i don't really have a choice now do I? --Shawn 16:45, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Credits
I removed the listing of the school's credit requirements. This is an encyclopedia, not a student handbook. --mtz206 01:09, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

So we sugar coat things here at wikipedia? Thanks Blnguyen

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What this is
It appears some people have a misconception of what this is. This is Wikipedia's encyclopedia article on the school. It is not the school's page on Wikipedia. This is not social media. The purpose of this page is not to inform students or locals of what is available at the school. That is what the school's webpage is for. An encyclopedia is a tertiary source. That means that, except for the most mundane of material, everything here has to be verifiable to a reliable source, independent of the school. It is not a directory. It is not a newspaper.

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 * 2) For information like bond issues, controversies, etc, unless you can show with reliable sources that it was covered over time by sources removed from the general area the school is located, leave it out.
 * 3) Information that is directory in nature, we do not include.  That includes description of curriculum, grad rates, listings of clubs.  Listings of sports offered are allowed, as coverage of sports in the US is a given.  However, we only list achievements of the highest level and only team achievements.  That means anything less than a team state championship, we do not include.  You can reference a listing of athletic teams (or academic teams, or fine arts programs, such as band) to the school, but an independent source would be preferred (For Wisconsin, a good choice would be the WIAA).  Any achievement MUST have an independent source.  Again, we don't care what the school has to say about itself.

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