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Dropout Prevention
Dropout Prevention has been proposed for deletion. An editor felt this information might be based on your own conclusions or research, rather than published ideas. Please review No original research for the relevant policy. If you can improve the article to address these concerns, please do so, citing sources.

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AfD nomination of Txcare
I have nominated Txcare, an article you created, for deletion. I do not feel that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Articles for deletion/Txcare. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. Travellingcari (talk) 20:33, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Dallas ISD dropouts
I greatly trimmed your recent edit to Dallas Independent School District. The sources you provided were promotional in nature and of suspect reliability, so I replaced them with others. I could not salvage the last paragraph, there was no getting past the promotional tone with the information available. In order to salvage it, the information would have to be merged with other dropout-prevention programs at other middle schools, so as not to give undue weight to any one program.

Also, when providing copies of newspaper articles as sources, only use legal copies, not copies hosted without the newspaper's permission. If you can't do that, simply reference the offline paper copy and include a sentence or two in either the article or the reference to make it easy to search for the article using a pay archive service. davidwr/ (talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail)  02:53, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Jane Elkins, first woman legally executed by hanging in Texas May 27, 1853
For over a century it was suspected that Josefa "Chipita" Rodriguez was the first woman legally executed in Texas. She was hung on November 13, 1863 for murder. She was 63 at the time and accused of robbery and murder. See details at https://en.wikepedia.org/wiki/Chipita_Rodriguez

However, in written court records found in Dallas County Texas in about 1970 the record of the trial and execution of Jane Elkins was found. Jane Elkins was hung on May 27, 1853. (https://notorioustxcrimes.com/?p=331)