User talk:Originaldon

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Again, welcome! John from Idegon (talk) 19:11, 7 December 2017 (UTC) John from Idegon (talk) 19:11, 7 December 2017 (UTC)

Newport Harbor High School
Hi, and welcome again. Glad to see you're interested in editing school articles. Let me give you a few general tips and some specific advice on school articles.
 * 1) An encyclopedia article is meant to be a summary of what has been written about a given subject in reliable sources, totally independent of the subject. For schools, the independent part can be a bit dicey, as the sources are pretty sparce. So, for schools, we require independent sources for all statistics, any claims of achievement, and anything extraordinary. Things like existence of certain programs can be sourced to the school, but anything beyond that requires independent sources.
 * 2) Wikipedia is constructed like many websites, with a strong reliance on linking. You've been adding the size of the district, which is off topic to this article and belongs in the district's article, which is wikilinked from this article.
 * 3) An online encyclopedia like this shares some similarities with a print encyclopedia. We try to structure articles on similar subjects in a similar manner. To that end, you should take a look at the school article guidelines. Another note on cross article consistently: The source you used for the district's enrollment appears to be a good source for the school's enrollment, but....not every state DOE is as helpful as California's. Altho it is not set in stone, the preferred source for school demographic data is NCES. They provide the same dataset, formatted the same way, covering the same time frame for nearly every school in the US, public or private. It is also the source US News and World Report uses for their annual school survey.

If I can be of assistance, holla! John from Idegon (talk) 19:48, 7 December 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for the help! Originaldon (talk) 20:20, 7 December 2017 (UTC)