User talk:BAHufford

Nomination of Northglenn High School for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Northglenn High School is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Northglenn High School until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Gaijin42 (talk) 16:36, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Please do not delete this page
This is my first time publishing a page, I am a teacher at the school and my students helped build the page. Please tell us what changes we need to make so that we can keep the page up.

Thank you, BAHufford (talk) 18:41, 27 August 2014 (UTC)BAHufford


 * See the comments below, but at this point it is looking like the page is likely to be kept. Gaijin42 (talk) 18:47, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

I have read the comments below... and tried to make the appropriate changes. I guess I would like to know what other changes I need to make in order to get the possible Deletion Warning off the top of the page. I am new to this so I am just trying to learn... Next time I will use the Sandbox. I just had no idea this time around. BAHufford (talk) 18:58, 27 August 2014 (UTC)BAHufford

Welcome! & Northglenn High School
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I noticed you're a new editor and that the article you created (Northglenn High School) was quickly nominated for deletion. I think that was a bad move, as the article meets the notability guidelines and the only issue was that some of the text sounded promotional. I think the more appropriate thing to do was for the nominator to tag the article with a template that notes that part of it doesn't meet some of our guidelines and place a message here on your talk page first. When I first started editing, it took a long time to understand some of the basic policies. I've made some changes to the article, including removing the list of alums that returned to work (I didn't see anything in the source provided that supports these claims plus that's not really something that is encyclopedic). Also, I see another user removed the section about STEM, because it was a copyright violation. Basically, most content legally belongs to the person who wrote it, so the school owns the copyright to the word-for-word text.(Note: That doesn't prohibit you from writing about/including the same information in your own words. Also, content on Wikipedia can be reused if credit is given)

Please don't be discouraged from editing Wikipedia. Here's a useful guide to getting started writing Wikipedia articles. If you want to write/add another article, consider point 6 that explains how to use your sandbox. If you create an article in your sandbox, a template is shown at the top that has a link that says "Submit your draft for review!" When you think the draft article is complete, click that link and a Wikipedia will review it to see if there's no significant issues with it, so that you can avoid what happened when you added Northglenn High School. Again, please don't be discouraged! If you have any questions, just ask below. AHeneen (talk) 17:52, 27 August 2014 (UTC)