User talk:3227Egraham

I think the other editor is concerned about the very high amount of citations. Citations are GREAT, don't get me wrong, but usually simple facts need just one, maybe two. For instance, the statement that most sports play their home matches at Stow High School likely doesn't need much of any citation as it is common for high schools to have campuses with athletic fields around them. One citation to the athletics page would suffice. Also, if a fact is in both the infobox or the intro and is also present in the body of the article, it only should have the citation in the body and does not need the citation marker in the infobox or the lead. See WP:LEADCITE. --JonRidinger (talk) 20:13, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
 * I'd say so...basically, the only time you would need multiple citations on the same fact is if it's highly controversial or if its a short sentence with several cited facts in it. That can go for anything in the article.  Again, sources are GREAT, but too many just crowds the article.  As long as a fact can be verified, we're good.  Thanks for your help.  --JonRidinger (talk) 20:21, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

Answers my question
OK so you are the anonyous editor who has like 15 additional names. I never said "every little fact" had to be cited. You misinterpreted what I said. Having a good amount of sources is fantasic, but you usually only need one, especially for non-controversial statements. Like pictures, there is such a thing as overkill. For instance, saying that the school is commonly referred to as "Stow High School" would only really need one source (and really, the athletics page itself is a source since its name is "StowHighAthletics") if any at all since using a shortened name of the school (especially in a long name like "Stow-Munroe Falls") is pretty normal and hardly unique. You also don't need to source the statement that Stow is a suburb of Akron or that the school is located in Stow. Those are pretty much a given. Really, the places where sources become an issue is when you make outstanding claims. If I remember right, this became an issue with the academic teams, particularly the JCL, which does make some pretty outstanding claims. As for your question on athletics, a general reference to the Stow athletics page would suffice for the statement that most teams have their home games at the school, since the page has schedules for each team. Again, it is not abnormal for a school to have the majority of its athletic teams play in or around the building. Having one additional citation per team that plays elsewhere (like swimming and bowling) would be appropriate as well. Also, if the fact has a marked citation one place in the article, it doesn't need to be marked every time, especially in the lead and infobox. The high school article I have used as a guide along with the Schools Wikiproject is Plano Senior High School, which is one of only 2 featured school articles.

Also, what's the deal with all these different user names? Do you keep forgetting your password or something? --JonRidinger (talk) 20:52, 5 October 2009 (UTC)


 * P.S. actually, I wouldn't prefer you go away, I prefer you stay and work with people rather than against them. I wouldn't keep giving you suggestions and pointers and checking and rechecking Wikipedia and project policies and guidelines if I just wanted you to go away.  I also wouldn't use the talk pages here or on the articles to communicate my reasons for edits if I wanted you to just go away.  Your little outbursts yesterday and your constant creation of new user names leads me to believe you're not really here to work with people to improve articles.  --JonRidinger (talk) 21:08, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

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You are the subject of a sockpuppet investigation at Sockpuppet investigations/Smfhs photographer. Please respond there, thanks, Ruhrfisch &gt;&lt;&gt; &deg; &deg; 21:13, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

Response
A response to your comment is posted on my talk page. >>>> Posted By Alex Waelde (Leave Me A Messgae) 23:16, 5 October 2009 (UTC)