User talk:Lancxster12x34

November 2018
Please do not add or change content, as you did at Malden Catholic High School, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. John from Idegon (talk) 01:07, 9 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Most people come to Wikipeda with a variety of misconceptions and apparently you are not an exception. First, a school website is made up of multiple webpages. A specific citation is required. Second, for the most part, an encyclopedia article should be made up of information paraphrased from reliable secondary sources. We are not interested in what the school has to say about itself. Information we do allow to be sourced to the school are as follows:
 * Absolutely mundane information such as the school's address and its principal are best sourced to the school. The principal (and for private schools like Malden, the head of the corporation and the founder, if sourcable) is the only employee we name.
 * Strictly factual material, without any interpretation or promotion, may be sourced to the school if no secondary source exists and it is within content guidelines for school articles. Examples might be curricular info (of which we allow very little), or lists of sports offered (which, since interscholastic athletics require some sort of agency independent of the school to facilitate virtually always are sourcable to secondary sources).
 * Information deemed vital to the article when no better sources can be found, as long as it is presented neutrally without any promotional tone and does not contain mundane information of little interest outside the school community. Pretty much, this only applies to history.


 * Keep in mind that a Wikipeda article about a school is not for the school, but pretty much for everyone in the world outside of those already connected to the school, including students, staff, parents and alumni. If I'm remembering the correct article, you added info on the school allowing girls for the first time, ya? That's fairly newsworthy, so it stands to reason some newspaper covered that change. Keep in mind this fact is RECENT and encyclopedias take a long view on facts. It would be appropriate to add as the last line of the history section "Starting in September 2018, Malden began admitting girls.", cited to a secondary source such as a newspaper to verify that. John from Idegon (talk) 03:50, 9 November 2018 (UTC)

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Again, welcome! John from Idegon (talk) 03:50, 9 November 2018 (UTC) John from Idegon (talk) 03:50, 9 November 2018 (UTC)