Talk:Metamora Township High School

Sneakypie 00:41, 30 September 2005 (UTC)Sneakypie

Currently rewriting the entire article with headings and a table of contents. I'd really love for someone to spell-check that, as it doesn't come with a spell-checker. I'm still researching a lot about the history of the school, and will hopefully have it posted soon. I'd also love some pointers in how to format a talk page, as I can't seem to find that help anywhere, and also how to best format the actual article, as I'm having trouble. I'll be taking pictures of the school as well as scanning pictures of the school as it was in the past. If this article gets deleted, I'd love the pointers on how to format the talk page and article anyway!


 * Hi! I've reformatted the main article so you can see how topic heads are normally formatted.  I also moved around some content to get a more solid introduction/summary at the top.  Talk pages are pretty free-form.  Basically, you hit the "+" next to "edit this page" at the top to add a new section/topic (which I'm going to do next), or just edit the section you want to reply in.  Replies are usually prefixed with one more colon than the original message, so that the replies indent properly.  (Edit this talk page and you'll see how I did it.)  End the message with --~ to timestamp the message like I'm going to do here: --Closeapple 09:41, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

Spell checked the Article. I'll help clean it up when I get the chance. For future reference though, if you want to spell-check an article, just copy and paste it into Word. Then use Word's spell-check. After it's been checked, copy and paste the checked version. CW3 23:30, 13 Nov 2005 (CST)

Territory and feeder schools
I was going to ask if Spring Bay had a school (Don't laugh!), but I just realized that it's Riverview. I promised Sneakypie a new topic though, so here it is. On a related note: What townships go to MTHS besides Metamora itself? Are there any townships that are part MTHS and part somewhere else? Is there any part of Fondulac Township or the city of East Peoria that's in MTHS territory? --Closeapple 09:50, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

I've wikilinked the names of the grade school districts. Maybe this should be removed. I don't really think the grade school districts are noteworthy enough for Wikipedia; I only linked them so they'd match already existing links on List of school districts in Illinois.

Assessment
I am giving this article C / Low following a request for assessment. I'm giving it low importance as I can't see anything in the article which currently justifies a higher importance. The lead could do with expansion as the article gets bigger per WP:LEAD - it should introduce and fully the article. The school's logo should normally be at the top of the infobox. I don't think photos of both entrances should be in the infobox, one perhaps at the bottom will do. Not all images have to be in the article. I notice that the images used have been uploaded to Wikimedia Commons but are uncategorised; I would suggest creating a category for the schools on Commons and then linking to it from the article using Commons category. The history section could do with some expansion and more sources; there are large gaps from 1915 to the present. The campus section is detailed though it could do with some sources and try to avoid room-by-room descriptions. The academics section is well written and sourced. For further article expansion, I would suggest having a look at WP:WPSCH/AG. The amount of references is okay for the length of the article, though I would try and get more variety, given that much of the sourcing is from the same few websites. Camaron · Christopher · talk 15:13, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

Undue weight on lawsuit
An editor has added a section named "Legal woes" to the article. It has several problems: This section seems like a problem of Undue weight. It claims that MTHS is a hotbed of lawsuits ("a variety of incidents"), and then only gives one example, yet has a separate article section as if the recent history of MTHS is primarily about being tied up in court. Is there any evidence that lawsuits have been significant in the history of MTHS? Was the school never the same afterwards? Usually I'd just wait this out to see if anything else gets added, then remove the section if not, but the "undue" tag mentions discussing the issue and not removing the tag, so here we are. --Closeapple (talk)
 * 1) "Over the past few years Metamora Township High School has been in the news for a variety of incidents that the courts are now involved in." &mdash; there is no source or evidence given that this is even true, let alone that it is unusual compared to the typical high school or district.
 * 2) "The first and most widely publicized incident focuses on Steven J. Chromik" &mdash; There was a "variety of incidents" but the first one was in 2009?
 * 3) The original edit was written in two paragraphs as if the criminal case and the civil lawsuit were separate incidents the school was involved in, rather than the same incidents.  I combined the paragraphs.  Also, there is no evidence that the civil suit went anywhere after being filed, and therefore there is the implication that other specific living people are responsible, without any counterbalance, which is an issue of weight under WP:BLP as well.

Response to the legal woes section
This issue is actually talked about in town, and in the paper that was cited, there are more mentions of the case. It seems that this case comes up pretty often in local news. The food fight was also a big deal locally. There were many rumors about what happened that day, and many of those rumors involved legal issues. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.160.248.22 (talk) 11:08, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

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