Talk:Monta Vista High School

99.7% LOL —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.131.204.33 (talk) 23:52, 4 July 2010 (UTC)

old comments
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Keep deleting the line, it deserves to stay deleted.

I screwed up keeping track of who did what, and I WRONGLY tagged you with a NPOV violation that you certainly did not deserve. I left an apology over on your talk page. I truly sorry about that -- it was careless, and wrong. -- ArglebargleIV 04:04, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Mascot?
When did the mascot change? It was always the matador when I went there. Also, do they really misspell "torro"?? Elf | Talk 01:28, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Why not? They misspell "Monte", why not "toro"?  I couldn't find the mascot in a cursory search on their website, you might contact the athletic boosters at mvathleticboosters AT yahoo DOT com.  Zoe 01:36, August 16, 2005 (UTC)


 * Checking the website the best I could find was their newsletter, which includes a sort of "coat of arms" with a matador behind it. But maybe we should at least spell it "toro" until we get a confirmation of the spelling or identity. -Willmcw 06:00, August 16, 2005 (UTC)

How do I add a page for Monte Vista High School?
aka, the REAL monte vista, not the fake monta vista


 * Monta Vista High School appears to be a real school. To start up a different article (presumably about a different school in a different city, click on this red link and start editing. Monte Vista High School. Cheers, -Willmcw 22:29, 14 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Ah, the old rivalry about who spells it right. The trick is, though, that there are at least TWO Monte Vista High Schools, so I'm suggesting that the link you give becomes a disambiguation page that points to both Monte Vista High School (Danville) and Monte Vista High School (Spring Valley). I'll do that now. Elf | Talk 02:33, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

"White Flight"???
As a white junior at Monta Vista High School currently maintaining a 4.1 GPA, I can assure you, "MilpitasGuy", that I have never had any experiences at school in which I felt overwhelmed by the school's racial composition or unable to keep up with my classmates. Nor do I have any friends who have "stayed up all night cramming for an SAT or AP exam". Your recent addition claims that several student suicides have occured at MV over the past few years...I'd like to know where you found this statistic? There's been one suicide at Monta Vista since I began going there in 2003, and it had much to do with self-image and nothing to do with academic pressure. Considering you live in Milpitas, I'm assuming you've never actually attended Monta Vista, and would appreciate it if you would refrain from making negative comments about a school that you know little, if anything, about. -A


 * What sources are we using for this new material? Let's keep this article encyclopedic and verifiable. Speculating on the suicide(s) by students is inappropriate. Every high school has them, tragically but seemingly inevitably. However gossip does not belong. All factual assertions and criticism (or praise) of the school should have a reliable source.  Ah, I see it's from the WSJ. Hmmm, -Willmcw 08:13, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

"A", who was the one suicider? That girl mentioned in white flight who committed suicide when she went to college?--B0bby flay 07:53, 15 January 2007 (UTC) (UTC) Superscript text

Incidentally she was actually in her junior year of high school, and 'A' is correct, the situation under which this occured had to do with her own personal life and was unrelated to academics.

It's widely known that the quotes in the article were manipulated and the parents quoted did not intend to say what was printed. Take for example, Mrs. Gatley- she has spoken out about this and I think this deems the article less factual than it should be. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.234.70.204 (talk) 07:15, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

Athletics
Please don't put things like "we own everyone else" or brag about Monta Vista's scores. It's wrong for two main reasons: 1: its desrespectful to other schools. 2: its immature.

If you want to present the good skills and abilities of the school's sports teams, please present a short summary of the scores of the various teams. Please do not put massive paragraphs detailing a certain year's achievements. I suggest that we place an "achievements" area under athletics, so that we can put certain seasons that had exceptionally high scores.

Hacking
In regards to the "hacking" incident.. I believe this should be taken out for now, as it is really not clear that the students were after the final exams, which were actually on a different server than the one they "hacked." They were doing it more for "bragging rights" and "recognition". B0bby flay (talk) 07:01, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

Middle College
Hey- I'd like to add a section on the middle college and college now programs- possibly even create pages to link to. Any ideas as to what category it should be put under (or should I create a new one?) --Tsimbat (talk) 06:42, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Sorry, I don't know where else to put this comment- sophomores never take AP Government as stated in the article. I thought I'd clarify that. It is strictly a senior course taken with economics. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Loveamour (talk • contribs) 07:19, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

recent edits 1/8/2014
Please familiarize yourself with the guidelines for school articles found at WP:SCH/AG. Article content on Wikipedia is decided by a consensus of editors. The established consensus for high school articles is that we do not discuss individual achievements and that no achievements are to be included without reliably sourced references. Scholarship winners are individual achievements, and frankly National Merit Scholarships are not that big of a deal. Well over 100,000 of them are awarded annually. John from Idegon (talk) 06:47, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

School article scope, viewpoint, ownership and content
Editors who are familiar with the school, either as students, staff or alumni, are welcome to edit this article. However, all content needs to be within the school article guidelines found at WP:SCH/AG. Also, edits based on personal knowledge are not welcomed. All information must be sourced.

Please keep in mind that this article does not belong in any way to the school or its students or alumni. It is not in any way for the school's publicity efforts.

The content in the article should be written to interest and inform readers from the entire English-speaking world. The emphasis should be on things that make your school unique, not just mundane listings of day to day things.

Today, I removed most of the "Campus" section as totally unneeded and written in promotional tone. Since nearly every school has a gym and a library, there is absolutely no need to mention those things. Detailed descriptions of the campus are simply not needed.

The most ridiculous thing was the content that basically said the gym is used for athletic events and the library has reading material. I don't know who wrote that, but do you really think that is something people need to be told? If the library had only paint by number sets and the gym was used for grazing cattle, that would be valid content, because that would be something unique about the school. The other, not so much. John from Idegon (talk) 17:22, 24 April 2014 (UTC)

External links modified
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 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/20081230120923/http://mvhs.fuhsd.org:80/content/SchoolProfile/SchoolProfile0809.pdf to http://mvhs.fuhsd.org/content/SchoolProfile/SchoolProfile0809.pdf

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External links modified
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External links modified
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 * Added archive http://web.archive.org/web/20050511002045/http://www.msnbc.msn.com:80/id/7723397/site/newsweek to http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7723397/site/newsweek/
 * Added archive http://web.archive.org/web/20070205210048/http://www.msnbc.msn.com:80/id/12532678?s=100&np=12&sort=raa to http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12532678?s=100&np=12&sort=raa

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Majority of Content Removed By Lone Wolf Editor
In March/April (of 2019), a user removed a majority of the content on this page. Additional content was removed in April 2018 by a user with a similar screen name and is possibly the same person. When I tried to restore this information, and add new information, the same user deleted the restorations and additions.

Among the content removed was information about a Wall Street Journal article covering the school, notable demographic information, significant awards received that are acknowledged elsewhere in Wikipedia and objective academic performance measures. The school's coverage by the following third party sources was also deleted in its entirety: the Washington Post, U.S. News and World Reports, Niche, Business Insider and the Los Angeles Times. Additional information about the school's special programs and campus was also removed.

As a sense of the magnitude of content removed, one of the deletions brought the content from 11,913 bytes to 4,704 bytes.

Much of this content is informative and useful for those interested in the topic. All was reliably sourced. Most was objective and verifiable.

The user claims WP:SCH/AG. On its face, the user's rationale is incorrect. For example, he claims a school district can never be a valid source of information. This is false. WP:SCH/AG explicitly says that "A school's own website ... can be an acceptable source for information sections involving no value judgments...." Most of the information was sourced well beyond the school itself. Further, some of the objective, verifiable and quantitative information was also notable on a nationwide basis, e.g. performance and awards that have nationwide interest.

See the edit history for today (8/23/2019), March/April of 2019 and April 2018 for more information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.161.48.161 (talk) 17:58, 23 August 2019 (UTC)