User talk:Fosterstclairson

April 2013
Hello. Your recent edit to Quincy High School (Massachusetts) appears to have added the name of a non-notable entity to a list that normally includes only notable entries. In general, a person or organization added to a list should have a pre-existing article before being added to most lists. If you wish to create such an article, please first confirm that the subject qualifies for a separate, stand-alone article according to Wikipedia's notability guideline. Thank you. Gtwfan52 (talk) 22:03, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

Regarding the above
Hi! It generally is never appropriate to write a long biography of an individual associated with the school or town into an article about a school or town. Rather, if you have enough referenced information to write that long biography (in this case the person seems to be an academic, so the appropriate standard would be found at WP:PROF), just write an article about him, then put a short bit like the following into the school article's notable people section: *exact tile of the subject's article - what is the most important fact about him, class of XX.

To do otherwise would put undue emphasis on a very small part of the school's story. We try here to keep the amount of editorial material in proportion to the importance of the subject of the material in relation to the article as a whole (see WP:UNDUE). Obviously, one student, even if he or she were to eventually become President of the United States, is still only a minor portion of the school's whole story. Gtwfan52 (talk) 22:15, 30 April 2013 (UTC)