Talk:University Liggett School

March 2007
Hello all, and thank you for contributing to this school site. I'm part of the WikiProject_Schools/Assessment team, and I'm reviewing this page, I'm currently giving it a grade of Start on the Wikipedia 1.0 Assessment Scale and an importance of Low on the this importance scale.

My reasoning is as follows: This site while well-written, need some work to make it more clear. It also needs som improvement on WP:NPOV.

Does anyone know who the heck Liggett was? Despite being college-prep, why is the term university used when it's a high school. Is it to be pretentious?
 * Um, no. The present school formed from the merger of Grosse Pointe University School and the Liggett School.  The Liggett School was founded by a lady named Liggett; sometime I'll get my history of the school and add her full name to the article.  "University School" was/is a common part of some part of some private school names, implying a college-prep school.  Cleveland University School is another example.  A2Kafir 01:12, 18 April 2007 (UTC)The Rev. James D. Liggett founded The Liggett School for young women in Detroit in 1878.
 * I graduated from this school in the 1980's, and I can confirm what A2Kafir says. In that era, the name of the school was written as "University-Liggett" with a hyphen, which was supposed to decrease (a little) the confusion over whether it is a university (it isn't).  However, I see from their web site they've dropped the hyphen so I will not be changing the main article unless anyone things this point is notable.  E-hadj (talk) 15:53, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Expanded history, using material from the official school site, with OTRS permission confirmed (see below). DavidOaks (talk) 20:07, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Did Aaron Krickstein graduate? I don't have my yearbooks handy. A2Kafir 01:20, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Jean Harris
Someone placed a question in the text of the article about why this is notable, explaining this as the reason why s/he keeps deleting it. Aside from the fact that the discussion page is the place to put such questions, Tarnower was a famous person, the murder was notorious, she was connected with the school. Respectfully suggest that s/he should get a username; someone using that computer has a history of vandalism. DavidOaks (talk) 22:46, 25 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Doesn't the word 'notable' as in notable alumni/faculty have a positive connotation? Therefore, Jean Harris would not be notable.  If the murder was notorious, that does not make it notable.


 * No, that would be "admirable alumni/faculty." Check the corresponding list for the University of Puget Sound, where Ted Bundy is listed. DavidOaks (talk) 19:30, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

OTRS permission confirmed
For the material taken from the University Liggett School web site and incorporated into the article, that content has been released under the GFDL by the school's representative.

Logos note
The portion on the logos near the beginning of the page is vague, and probably should be moved somewhere else--or maybe deleted if irrelevant? MathMaven (talk) 23:21, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

Unrefereced
Although the article is pretty much accurate, this article is unreferenced, and also mentions things that are unnecessary. Someone needs to fix this issue. MathMaven (talk &#124; edits) 20:58, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
 * I have added some references to the article as part of an overall cleanup, but there are a few things that still need citations; if more things should be cited from non-Liggett sources, then that will be great. MathMaven (talk &#124; edits) 01:30, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

Assessment
I will be keeping this article at Start for the time being. There needs to be more referencing and any material that cannot be referenced must be removed. Also, the "Alami" section should be located near the bottom of the article, before external links but after "College Preparation". This article also requires more details of the schools curriculum. -- Joker264 (talk) 12:28, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

AP Classes
I am a student at ULS and it is relatively common knowledge among students and staff that there will no longer be AP courses offered. However, to my knowledge there is no documentation of these changes. I think it's important to preserve the factual accuracy of the page, but I also think that making this edit without proper documentation could be considered original research. Thoughts? Fissionprime (talk) 23:10, 18 July 2011 (UTC)