User talk:F.I.L.A.

Welcome!
Hello, F.I.L.A., and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:
 * Introduction and Getting started
 * Contributing to Wikipedia
 * The five pillars of Wikipedia
 * How to edit a page and How to develop articles
 * How to create your first article
 * Simplified Manual of Style

You may also want to take the Wikipedia Adventure, an interactive tour that will help you learn the basics of editing Wikipedia. You can visit The Teahouse to ask questions or seek help.

Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or, and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome!

Atlanta Board of Education
Hi! I don't think this page is necessary. It can be adequately explained at Atlanta Public Schools. If you disagree you can start a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Schools. WhisperToMe (talk) 03:45, 31 December 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for your feedback! I agree that currently, all the information in the Atlanta Board of Education article could be encompassed within the Atlanta Public Schools page. However, I hope the article will be expanded and, when it is, there are two reasons why I think the page deserves to be separate:

First, in general, I believe city school boards deserve a page because they are the groups of elected officials who make decisions about large amounts of public funds and having Wikipedia pages on the subject increases the transparency of information and decreases the asymmetry of information re: both the elected officials and the office they hold.

Second, the Atlanta Board of Education has a fairly unique recent history, with turnover of 2/3 of the Board in the last election and a think a section on that era of the school board, in particular, is relevant. F.I.L.A. (talk)F.I.L.A.
 * Maybe what you could do is spend a week or so writing the page, using secondary sources to do so, then asking the project and/or Project Georgia (US) whether they feel the two should remain separate or be merged. I know some municipal city councils have separate pages (for example Houston City Council). It probably depends on how much sourced commentary (from secondary sources) you can find about the board itself. Hit up the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and/or Education Week and see what you can find. WhisperToMe (talk) 21:32, 2 January 2017 (UTC)