User talk:Mmrk010509

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New Albany High School (Indiana)
I just reverted your additions to New Albany High School (Indiana). There were several problems. First, you can't just copy and paste information from the school's website--all info in WP must be re-written. The only exception would be if that site is not copyrighted (public domain), but, while federal government documents are automatically public domain, I don't think state school board docs are. However, if you're sure it's public domain, the information could be included if proper attribution is given; let me know if it is public domain and I can show you how to do that. However, even if that info is re-written or is PD, it probably shouldn't all be included anyway--it's a bit excessive compared to the amount of info we generally want in this type of article. Key facts should be kept, but not all of the details.

Additionally, we definitely do not allow the listing of all of the school's staff; our policy WP:NOTDIRECTORY says that we are not trying to provide every single piece of factual info, but rather only that which covers the broad, encyclopedic level info. Qwyrxian (talk) 09:51, 11 September 2011 (UTC)