Talk:Wakeland High School

Infobox image
Does someone have an image to use for the infobox beside the one with an anime character photoshopped onto it? (Side note: What on earth?) Baltro  [  talk  ] 03:27, 29 June 2013 (UTC)

Media Attention
The Coach Carden and Don Sparks additions should be here, they are some of the most well cited incidents in the media having to do with this school in particular. Feel free to clean up the editorial and add other key elements, but the revisions were made in good faith and should not be removed. Assume good faith — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.27.34.73 (talk) 17:36, 17 August 2017 (UTC)
 * I would disagree however. These are tangibly related to the school and the Don Sparks addition itself I have a great deal of concern over as it mentions an arrest and an accusation, but no conviction. We have a rather straight forward policy with regards to notating information on living people, and this would appear to be in violation of that. RickinBaltimore (talk) 20:44, 17 August 2017 (UTC)


 * I will revert omitting the don sparks entry and if you think the Coach Carden entry needs revision then you can feel free to revise it, however the substance is absolutely relevant. The guy was literally a teacher at the school when he was arrested.24.27.34.73 (talk) 20:51, 17 August 2017 (UTC)
 * I understand that, but it's not an item that warrants an entry in an encyclopedic manner. These events have occurred in numerous schools, and they have not been added to the school page. If this was an event that directly affected the school, and not just that he was a teacher there, that is different. RickinBaltimore (talk) 20:55, 17 August 2017 (UTC)


 * Wakeland alumni here, the stuff about coach carden should probably be on there because he was arrested in the middle of the school year and it was the talk around school for a while. Idk about don sparks, didn't really know him just heard about him after he got arrested. probably wait til after he gets formally charged and stuff.2606:F180:2:300:300:E36F:EF23:E2F8 (talk) 22:39, 17 August 2017 (UTC)


 * This is not encyclopedic content. See WP:NOTNEWS and WP:BALASP. Articles about schools concern descriptions of academic activity, basic history, and brick and mortar. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 00:47, 18 August 2017 (UTC)
 * It is irrelevant that these guys committed crimes in the context of the school. People commit crimes all the time. The crimes had 0 relationship to the school outside of the fact that the people involved worked at the school. If we made note of every crime committed by every employee of every organization that had an article on Wikipedia, there wouldn't be room for any other content. The only way stuff like this goes in is if either it occurred at the school or a school function or the school covered it up; and in either of those cases only if there has been geographically widespread coverage of the event that has extended over a long period of time AND the parties had been convicted of the crime. Even then, unless the person was already notable (in the Wikipedia sense of that term), we would not name names. As one of the coordinators of WikiProject Schools (Kudpung is the other), I watch almost 5,000 US and Canada school articles. This is not an uncommon thing. It seems big to the locals, but it is not in any way differentiating about this school. This comes up once or twice a month every year. Kudpung already cited the relative policies, as did Rick in Baltimore. It would behoove you to remember that the purpose of this article is NOT to inform the local school community, but instead to summarize the details about the school (not its staff or students) that are relevant to the world. John from Idegon (talk) 03:38, 18 August 2017 (UTC)


 * I'll add my support to what John from Idegon, Kudpung, and RickinBaltimore have already said. In the end, no, this isn't significant in the bigger picture of the school's overall development, which is true for virtually all similar local "scandal" situations. --JonRidinger (talk) 06:34, 18 August 2017 (UTC)


 * Thanks. Doug Weller  talk 07:19, 18 August 2017 (UTC)