User talk:Tatonka79

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Notability tags
High schools are usually considered notable, per WikiProject Schools and precedent set through the Afd process. Rather than tagging every high school in Oregon, if that is what you are planning to do, I suggest that if you are truly concerned about the quality and notability of these articles, you start the articles for deletion process on them. Better yet, work to improve them--I agree that most could certainly use improvement. BTW, without edit summaries or other explanations such as a discussion on the articles' talk pages, your tagging of these articles appears to me to be somewhat disruptive, but I could be wrong. See this information about disrupting Wikipedia to make a point and let me know if you have any questions, thanks. Latr, Katr 22:25, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Just so you are aware, there's no consensus that high schools are notable per se. A high school article has to satisfy WP:N like any other article.  But Katr67 is correct in that the majority of high school articles end up passing muster, unless nobody bothers to address the deficiencies.  Katr is also correct that school articles should be brought to AfD rather than being tagged for speedy deletion, as their deletion is often not without controversy.  Happy editing! --Butseriouslyfolks 02:45, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Note I was referring to Tatonka tagging a series of articles with the notability tag, not speedy. Latr, Katr 06:15, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

Articles for deletion/List of high schools in Oregon
Please respond to my comment on that page. Thanks, Pablo   Talk  |  Contributions  05:48, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

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When editing an article on Wikipedia there is a small field labeled "Edit summary" under the main edit-box. It looks like this: The text written here will appear on the Recent changes page, in the page revision history, on the diff page, and in the watchlists of users who are watching that article. See m:Help:Edit summary for full information on this feature.

Filling in the edit summary field greatly helps your fellow contributors in understanding what you changed, so please always fill in the edit summary field, especially for big edits or when you are making subtle but important changes, like changing dates or numbers. Thank you. Latr, Katr 02:27, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

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Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. In the future, it is recommended that you use the preview button before you save; this helps you find any errors you have made, and prevents clogging up recent changes and the page history. Thanks again. Latr, Katr 02:28, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

Please reconsider your actions
Tatonka, you have objected to other editors participating in article-for-deletion discussions based on their interest in the subject, even though the evidence does not support your position. Meanwhile, you have had an account for about four days, and nearly every one of your edits concerns deletion of an article. If you have a position you'd like to defend on what gets included in Wikipedia - and I strongly support your right to your opinion, and to make an argument for it - the more appropriate action would be for you to develop a policy, rather than your current scattershot approach. Your nomination for the deletion of Philomath High School - perhaps the most notable high school in Oregon - should give you pause. If you have not taken the time to look into a specific article's notability, you should not be taking a strong position like nominating it for deletion. Doing so simply wastes the time of quality Wikipedia editors, who would rather be improving the content of the encyclopedia than fending off casual AfDs. -Pete 05:55, 29 June 2007 (UTC)