Talk:Paul Laurence Dunbar High School (Lexington, Kentucky)/Archive 1

Notable alumni
Congrats to Dunbar cheerleaders for winning 4 national championships!! GO BULLDOGS!! With the success PLD has had in so many sports, and the MSTC, there have got to be more notable alums than just Mills and Burton! Cmadler 22:12, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

I highly suspect that most, if not all of the additions to the academics section of notable alumni are vandalism. When put into a Google search they return this article as the first result and irrelevant results afterwards. Also, most of the edits are being made by an unnamed IP address, which added most of them on April 1st. I will remove the names until someone comes up with real notable alumni for PLD, of which I'm sure there are some.(Lithoderm (talk) 22:26, 15 April 2008 (UTC))

They are all vandalism. I have deleted the acadmemic ones. This article needs to be blocked because I had to undo an almost entire delete of the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Elin9 (talk • contribs) 12:29, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Dunbar schools
My neighbor grew up in Lexington, Ky and she told me that there was more than one Dunbar school in Kentucky and perhaps other states. Does the author have info about them.-- Dakota ~   °  05:41, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
 * I know there are other schools called "Dunbar" around the country (this article makes reference to that fact in mentioning demographics), though I couldn't say specificaly where (I believe there is one in Chicago, there is probably one in Dunbar's home town of Dayton, OH) or what the full names of those schools are. I am not aware of any other schools called "Dunbar" in Kentucky - I am reasonably confident this is the only high school by that name in Kentucky, but I have no idea about middle and elementary schools. Another point is "Dunbar" v. "Paul Dunbar" v. "Paul Laurence Dunbar." The proper name of this school is "Paul Laurence Dunbar High School", while Lexington's all-black school was "Dunbar High School." In practice, however, this school is referred to as "Paul Laurence Dunbar", "PLD", and "Dunbar." The only reference I have found to this school as "Paul Dunbar" is on the Kentucky High School Athletic Association (KHSAA) website. I hope this answers your question. Cmadler 12:37, 15 February 2006 (UTC)


 * My neighbor has read your article (she is a reader not and editor) . She said she went to a Dunbar ele. along time ago as she is in her 50's or 60's. Good article. Her question is answered thanks.-- Dakota ~   °  13:46, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Roster listing
I removed several sections of the Baseball section. This material may be appropriate in an article about PLD Baseball, but not in the main article about the school. PLD has taken many state championships in many areas(3 for soccer, 4 for marching band, many for the academic team) and even national championships (6 by the cheerleading squad), and listing the rosters for all of the championship teams would bloat this article beyond reason. Cmadler 11:16, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

Removed text follows:

In the final against Louisville Male High School, Dunbar held Male to just 1 run while scoring 3.

2003 State Championship Roster: Drew Bennett, Matt Byzet, Craig Dunn, Dustin Morrow, Kevin Paddock, Rob Scott, Mark Wethington, Jeff Bracken, Kevin Branham, Cory Hager, Brett Hunt, Kent Kobayashi, David Lashbrook, Jonathan Miller, John O'Dea, Robby Ward, Boo Morrow, Robby Reeves, Davis Stanely, and Bobby Vyverberg

Other noteables of 2003, pitching staff ERA of 1.60 (first in state and school record). School Record 2.40 runs against. 91 doubles on the year (2nd in school history). Josh Ellis ERA of 0.72 (school record). Robby Reeves ERA of 0.94 (3rd in school history). Dustin Morrow ERA of 0.99. Matt Byzet record of 10-0. Dustin Morrow BA of .442. Robb Scott and Craig Dunn's 49 and 47 runs scored, consecutively.

Academic Team
The Dunbar academic team had a number of state and national successes in the late 90's-early 2000's. Seems like a section on non-athletic extramural activites including the academic team and other organizations e.g. speech, beta club, youth in government, and their successes would be appropriate? Mnc4t 16:36, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I agree. If you are familiar enough with this topic or can find adequate documentation, please write it; I am not able to do so. Cmadler 23:47, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Holy crap...
An edit was made to this page that wasn't juvenile vandalism.... I'm gobsmacked! --Scott Cranfill 22:27, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Article Class
Some cleanup and pictures are needed for a b-class article upgrade. Thanks! Kycowboyntv 22:35, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

Regarding reversion to last edit by 65.114.124.197
You can see the changes ensued by the reversion here...

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paul_Laurence_Dunbar_High_School_%28Lexington%2C_Kentucky%29&diff=156337652&oldid=155614863


 * The notes about the academic team's performance at the state championship do not seem notable considering the team has won Beta Nationals and placed second in NAQT in the past.
 * Johnny Xu was not picked in an NBA draft.
 * Elliot's first name is Kermin, not Vermin.
 * Papa Chakravarthy won Jeopardy; not Amit Chakraborty, another PLD student.
 * Henry Ho did not win 6 Nobel prizes.
 * Eric Lin and Bob Sun did not, to my knowledge, participate in Jeopardy (someone please correct me on this one if I am wrong.)
 * I added back Bret Donaldson

--Anthony5429 20:08, 7 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Once again, the page has been vandalised. IMO, any admin who sees this should consider locking the article for edits only by established users and/or blocking the vandals usernames/IP addresses. --Anthony5429 18:46, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject class rating
This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 10:29, 10 November 2007 (UTC)