User talk:Sanchm

Edits to Dwight-Englewood
Your recent edits to the article for Dwight-Englewood School create a number of issues. The main one is that notables are expected to have both Wikipedia articles AND reliable and verifiable sources demonstrating a connection to the school, and those entries without articles AND sources will be removed. There is no article for Robert Barsamian (which is why the link is red), and duplicating the reference for another individual doesn't provide a source; Bruce Smith could be one of several people, and there seems to be no evidence linking any of these individuals to Dwight-Englewood. Also understand that graduation years are usesful, but are not part of the article link that should be included within brackets; so Anthony Bourdain '73 does not link to an article, but Anthony Bourdain does. Furthermore, sourced material should not be removed from the article without explanation. As such, these edits will be reverted, though attempts will be made to integrate some of your edits into the article, where possible. Alansohn (talk) 16:48, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
 * As explained above, notables added to the article must have both Wikipedia articles AND reliable and verifiable sources demonstrating a connection to the school. Robert Barsamian still doesn't have a Wikipedia article of his own, so he fails test number one, though it seems clear that the Bruce Smith you are referring to is Bruce Smith (poet), so he's fine from that perspective. The sources you added for both individuals are biographies about each of these people, though neither one makes any mention of any connection to Dwight-Englewood School, so these sources fail test number two. After doing a search on Google, I was able to find a source in which Peter Balakian describes working together with Bruce Smith (poet) at D-E, and that source has been added to the article, while the entry for Robert Barsamian has been removed. Please review the article with these changes to see how such entries are set up and take a look at the sources to see how the focus needs to be on establishing the fact that the person attended or taught at the school. Feel free to reply to me with any questions here on this page or on my talk page. Alansohn (talk) 16:37, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

I am the Director of ALumni at Dwight-Englewood School. I would like to add the class year to the notable alumni. I have verified their year of graduation from the school Please advise that you will honor the edits. Sanchm (talk) 14:36, 6 January 2013 (UTC)