Talk:San Mateo High School

Thivierr removed the link that acknowledged that San Mateo High School students were members of "The Junior Executives," a punk rock era band that was "connected" to other better-known bands at the time, and whose founding member M. A. Lucas went on to release influential music anthologies and also founded the popular San Francisco band "The Phantom Sufers" in later years. Perhaps Thivierr didn't recognize the band as being well-known enough to retain recognition at the SMHS Wiki entry, but evidently this person is not an SMHS alumnus, and assumedly doesn't know the context or significance of the band. I will re-introduce this brief acknowledgement when I'm able and would truly appreciate it if Thivierr and others would kindly respect the entry and not take it upon themselves to censor according to their own personal preferences or lack of perspective. The entry was hardly an irresponsible blight on the page, nor was it a prank. Thanks for your respectful understanding. - D. E., class of 1981 —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 64.157.228.170 (talk • contribs).

Curriculum
The list of classes in this section belongs to a class registration form, not Wikipedia. Skyscraper Phoenix 02:33, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject class rating
This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as stub, and the rating on other projects was brought up to Stub class. BetacommandBot 14:09, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Quiz Kids
personally i think we should put the Quiz Kids section as there is a marching band section —Preceding unsigned comment added by Estarrol (talk • contribs) 01:09, 8 May 2008

Yeah your right!!! 76.14.36.111 (talk) 01:09, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

That would be interesting, Tenten-senpai (talk) 01:21, 8 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Just because there's a marching band section isn't a good reason why a Quiz Kids section should be added. I'm not against adding one but there should be sufficient material to explain why QK is significant at the school (winning awards, winning streak, civic role, etc.) as verifiable against reliable sources. Adding the names of team members, captains, or teachers is generally unsuitable (Wikipedia is not a directory particularly of non-notable names) – Zedla (talk) 02:09, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

July 2012 Assessment
I am assessing this article after a request was made here.

This is the version being assessed

The editor requested assessment of this article.

These are the B-Class criteria:

1. The article is suitably referenced, with inline citations where necessary. - - The majority of the article is unreferenced including some contentious points. In addition some of the references link to pages that no longer exist.

2. The article reasonably covers the topic, and does not contain obvious omissions or inaccuracies. - ✅ - The article appears to cover the topic well, there are a few sections that could be added as per the WikiProject Schools article guidelines but they are more adding value, rather than their non-presence being an omission.

3. The article has a defined structure. - ✅ - Although see above.

4. The article is reasonably well-written. - ✅ - There is the odd grammatical/spelling mistake however on the whole the article is well-written. There are also a few areas of MOS non-compliance, e.g Several inline links. The full MOS can be found here: WP:MOS.

5. The article contains supporting materials where appropriate. - ✅ There is an info-box and a couple of photos. A plan showing the layout of the campus would be a nice (although not compulsory addition) along with some more photos to better illustrate the article.

6. The article presents its content in an appropriately understandable way. - ✅

Overall I think this is a good, well-written article and I am therefore assessing it as "C/Low". The referencing lets it down substantially and is currently keeping it at C-Class. To advance further (apart from referencing) the article could be expanded with more content as per WP:WPSCH/AG and the Extra-curricular section should be shortened and any award claims referenced with suitable 3rd party references.

If you need any further clarification or help with the article or disagree with any part of my assessment, please contact me on my talk page. Thanks GlanisTalk 09:23, 29 July 2012 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just added archive links to 2 one external links on San Mateo High School. Please take a moment to review my edit. If necessary, add after the link to keep me from modifying it. Alternatively, you can add to keep me off the page altogether. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/20060712043013/http://www.smuhsd.k12.ca.us:80/smhs/about.html to http://www.smuhsd.k12.ca.us/smhs/about.html
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/20061214234524/http://www.cbsnews.com:80/stories/2006/02/11/ap/entertainment/mainD8FMOHJ00.shtml to http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/02/11/ap/entertainment/mainD8FMOHJ00.shtml

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