Talk:List of notable Northfield Mount Hermon alumni

This page should be kept seperate. Many educational institues have seperate pages for notable alumni. Just look at Andover Academy, Exeter Academy, Deerfield Academy, etc. Keeping this page seperate will make the main Northfield Mount Hermon page more clean and organized.

This page also keeps the list of alumni organized.

Lego8 21:37, 6 August 2007 (UTC)


 * "Other stuff exists" is not a valid argument for keeping an article. Realkyhick 14:23, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

The article is a comprehensive list of alumni. NMH has the largest living alumni population among boarding schools in the US, so there should be an article where new entries can be easily added and previous entries can be easily viewed.

Lego8 17:34, 7 August 2007 (UTC)


 * The main school article should suffice for now. The list can simply by copied as is into a section on the main school article. If it gets to where it is way too large, like over 100 alumni, then we can reconsider. Merging the articles now does not preclude splitting them again later. I tend to disfavor splitting article into parts unless the main article is, or would be, simply too large. Readers tend to be a bit lazy and don't follow the links to the split articles, which means they aren't as likely to see your good work. Adding entries is just as easy in the main article as in a split. And again, if the list gets to be just too doggone long (technical term), we can always go back and split it off again. It's a fairly trivial task.


 * There's also a problem with the number of "red links" to articles that don't exist. Maybe some are notable enough for their own articles — a good project for you, perhaps? Or maybe you didn't really want me to give you more work. :-) Realkyhick 17:54, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Alright, I consolidated the list into the main entry. Thanks for your help. 69.113.10.128 20:02, 7 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Glad to help. And remember, if the list does become to large or unwieldy, we can always go back to splitting off the list. But this way more readers will see your work. Realkyhick 21:14, 7 August 2007 (UTC)