Talk:Criser High School

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Good start, I am linking to this from the Warren County HS page. I know that after the schools re-opened they had the "freedom of choice" where students could attend their choice of schools -- so in theory, could a White student have attended either Mosby, Criser, or Warren County? (I know Blacks could choose between Criser or Warren.)

I imagine no White students actually attend Criser but was it in theory open to all races? On my Massive Resistance article I mention some lawsuits that were filed by folks in VA who objected to the de facto segregation. Shawn Pickrell (talk) 17:38, 28 September 2010 (UTC)

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Record this history before the people who remember it die
I rambled to this article after working on an article on Rock Hill Academy in Charlottesville. I worked on an article about John S. Mosby Academy, which was built the same year as Criser. The references are disappearing by the year. So are the people who remember these days. I recommend we work diligently to get good references, and to copy quotes into the references as insurance against the web sources disappearing. I'm asking John from Idegon to help, He is interested in schools. Rhadow (talk) 10:54, 30 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Y'all have a rash of library fires? Most online sources for historical schools are crap anyway. The reliable sources for an article like this are going to be found in area libraries. Newspapers, magazines, academic journals and books (books published by mainline publishers, not self published memoirs or books published by vanity press houses) are the best sources for historical schools. I'm on the other side of the country and am not going to be of any assistance with that.


 * This article as it stands is not an encyclopedia article, it is an original research essay. Please understand what an encyclopedia is. Encyclopedias are tertiary. That means that what is in an encyclopedia article is a referenced summary of what has been written elsewhere about a given subject. There is virtually no encyclopedic content in this article. It isn't written neutrally, it's full of name checks (a school isn't the people who attended or worked there, it is the brick and mortar structure and the legacy), and it is totally unsourced. The single external link isn't even a usable source.


 * The OP's basic premise in this thread shows a marked misunderstanding of what an encyclopedia is. It isn't our place to record what people say before they die. That's not what encyclopedias do. That is what historians do. We just paraphrase and summarize their works. That being said, I'm going to remove the PROD from the article, but I'd suggest that someone who has access to local libraries get some reliable sources on it quickly. Cleaning it up to conform to WP:NPOV would be a good idea too. I cannot do that either as there are no sources to work from. Deletion of this article can only be put off for a short time unless someone local actually adds some reliable sources that discuss this school in detail. I'd suggest concentrating on its opening and closing for now, as that is where you'll most likely find the most detailed sources. The parts in between can be fleshed out after enough sourcing is added to prevent deletion. John from Idegon (talk) 17:45, 30 August 2017 (UTC)