Talk:Montgomery High School (Texas)

News stories
I see you've added some news stories back into the article that I removed earlier, citing WP:NOTCENSORED. I removed them because I thought they weren't notable events, per WP:NOTNEWS, or I trimmed their coverage per WP:BALASP. I'll go through them line-by-line to give you some more specific information:
 * Placing second in a non-notable lib-dub competition isn't a noteworthy achievement.
 * Drug use in schools is unfortunate, but common. The story mentions six arrests, not dozens. This is a routine news story from a local news channel.
 * A bomb threat can be scary, but nothing resulted from it. Only local news coverage.
 * Someone embezzling funds is an isolated, non-notable crime covered only in local news stories. There are two refs to this story, but they're actually the same story - notice how the author and headline are the same. The Courier of Montgomery County and The Houston Chronicle are owned by the same company, Hearst Communications, so they sometimes cross-publish the same content.
 * The hazing incident is perhaps worthy of inclusion, as it was published in a wider variety of news sources, including a national one (Newsweek). This is where WP:BALASP comes in - how much weight should be given to the incident? Given that it is an isolated event and the students only received "informal probation", it probably doesn't warrant an entire paragraph of coverage. The mention of high-level officials leaving their positions seems to be WP:SYNTH - there's not necessarily a connection between the officials leaving their positions and the incident. Consider, for example, that the superintendent left at the end of the year to become a superintendent of a different school district.

The issue here from the perspective of creating an encyclopedia is that if every mention of every incident mentioned in a local news story were included in the article, it gives these incidents undue WP:WEIGHT. Consider also the lasting historical significance WP:10YEARTEST. Stedil (talk) 15:19, 7 September 2020 (UTC)