Talk:Dandenong High School

Cleeland Secondary College
It is very disappointing to see that whoever wrote the section on Cleeland Secondary College does not know its history. The school opened in 1957 as Dandenong Girls Secondary School and was housed in the Dandenong Town Hall until the completion of the building in Ann Street. The first principal was Miss Boardman, who formally played hockey for Victoria. After her retirement she was followed by Mrs Bishop. The name was changed about 1966-1967, as it was considered the word Secondary may indicate to some that the school may be of second class standard. The school was then known as Dandenong Girls High School. It was known as that for some years and I believe only changed to Cleeland High School or Cleeland Secondary College some years later when the school became a co-educational school. The school colours were Royal Blue and Gold, which at the time were Australia's national colours and like the Torch were in recognition of the Olympic games held in Melbourne the previous year (1956). The same year plans were set in place for the opening of the school. My eldest sister started at the school in Ann Street in 1958 and I was the last of our family to attend the school leaving at the end of 1968. At no stage was it ever known as Cleeland while we were there. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Essexclark (talk • contribs) 05:58, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

Unsourced flowery additions
I've just removed a whole bunch of unsourced additions which contained far too much fluff, trivia and marketing hype. Comments on the Badge Assembly, Timetable, and text like "...a renewed sense of unity and togetherness..." are just inappropriate in a global encyclopaedia.

There may have been some useful detail in there, but hard to find among the hype. I think it needs a lot of discussion here to justify inclusion. HiLo48 (talk) 01:50, 12 March 2011 (UTC)

Additions have been sourced. Page needs photos.
The additions have now been sourced accordingly. The information on the Badges Assembly, ethos, student life, daily timetable are NOT 'marketing hype' by any means. This is useful information. This is the kind of information that has been included on the Melbourne High School Wikipedia page. Make additions/corrections to the new information as you wish, but don't delete it altogether as it is handy info to have on the page.

I also want to say that the page needs some photos on it, as it's currently looking quite bare. The school emblem/logo also needs to be posted up on there, so if anyone has any rights to some useful photos on Wikicommons, please post them up as soon as possible. Some photos on the new learning centres and buildings, scattered through the article, would look really good too, if anyone's able to do so. - User: AcademicallyIntelligent987


 * I cannot agree with most of that. Badge assemblies happen in every Victorian high school I'm aware of. So do SRCs. Student leadership happens everywhere. Timetables are trivia. I'm not impressed that it's on another school's site. It doesn't belong there either. The whole article reads more like a brochure that would be given to potential and new parents than what belongs in a global encyclopaedia. HiLo48 (talk) 09:50, 12 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Without responding here you have now made massive changes, claiming "the information is useful". I'm really not sure who it's useful to, but the real issue is that Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion is not usefulness, but notability. Most of what you have added is simply not notable. HiLo48 (talk) 10:27, 12 March 2011 (UTC)

Changes
I've removed specific sections of the article - daily timetable for example. Thanks for the suggestions. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AcademicallyIntelligent987 (talk • contribs) 00:43, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

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