Wikipedia:Peer review/University High School (Los Angeles, California)/archive1

University High School (Los Angeles, California)
I am trying to nominate this article for GA status in schools. I'm looking for input on its formatting and content, and any general input on its importance rating. Feedback is appreciated and I will try to respond as well as i can. Thanks! Adam McCormick 21:00, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
 * I would love to see a photograph of the school. I would post it in the UHS article, in the LAUSD articles, and in various neighborhood articles (IE Brentwood, Bel-Air, Westwood, etc.) WhisperToMe 23:35, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
 * I'll reply to both of you here I guess. I'll go and take a picture of the school as soon as I have time--actually, I'll check and see if I have a good one on my computer, but if I don't I'll go up and take one.
 * Other stuff is not so easy. I've had enormous difficulty with this article because I know some information, but not enough, and the information I need isn't online.  I know the name change was controversial, and I'm fairly sure it didn't go directly to being University High, and the school is interesting or notable in a myriad of other ways.  Los Angeles schools have been going through all sorts of bizarre bell schedules, but University High switched to one that I believe hasn't been used elsewhere or at least not elsewhere in the Lausd and then was forced to change their schedules again--so they had three schedule changes within three years which led to more than a bit of conflict within the school and between the school and the LAUSD.
 * I'm also trying to find out about other things like the mascots for each class (University used to graduate two classes a year and each class had it's own mascot in addition to the school mascot), and sports did incredibly well for awhile and there's a whole case of trophies and photos at a restaurant which is a few blocks away.
 * The problem is is that none of this information is online. I couldn't even get a good picture of the school (I think I got of the flagpole) or a picture of the current mascot online.  I got a little of the stuff on the spring, and transcipts of certain types of LAUSD meetings are online, so I could fine general info on the mascot controversy but not so much information particular to Uni High.
 * I should be able to find all of this stuff if I go up to the school and to the spring and to the restaurant and ask the right people--and I should also be able to go through lists of graduates and stuff. Which reminds me--would a picture of Marilyn Monroe with her graduating class be fair use or what?  If someone could explain that stuff to me that would be great because just the list of stuff that I need to look up is incredibly long and that doesn't count anything I don't know about and I know some of this stuff has some great media attached to it.  For example Uni High used to have this incredible theatre with balconies and stuff, and after the earthquake it was converted and large parts of the school were changed, and just recently they closed those buildings altogether and put up temporary buildings in the parking garages because they discovered that those buildings were condemed and btw, they're sitting over a fault line and apparantly that's a bad place for a condemed building (no, I'm not kidding), but I have an old map of the school that was given out on those parent-whatever tours and I could grab a current map.
 * These are pictures from previous years' Before Columbus Day event, and if we could use one of these that would be great. Also, they have a great picture of the spring on their home page, better than anything I've ever taken, but I haven't done anything with this stuff because....
 * Anyway, I'm not planning to go up to the school right away, so let me know and let me know if you have other stuff for me to ask about or to take pictures of or look up--either at the school or at the spring. Miss Mondegreen | Talk  10:58, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

The only thing on the article I'd currently change is the notable alumni list. :It needs to be cleaned-up and formatted. I'd suggest by class year, since not all of them graduated, and I'd suggest putting it in slightly smaller print and in a table. The table I guess be Name / Class of / info. For people who didn't graduate--we could put a star in the class of column denoting that. *1967 winter and then at the bottom: *These alumni did not graduate from University High and the class year listed is the year they would have graduated.
 * Ahh, formatting. Well, as you can see a ton of content is not here, which I think makes a big difference.  I like it the way it is now, with the short intro.  But I like the idea of a general history and then issue specific sections.  I do think that this article needs media and I would not limit that to a picture of the school and one of the current mascot.  The inclusion of media may play some part in formatting the article.
 * This article also has a very small infobox and the info that is here is non-specific. I think that I'd personally perfer moving to the School infobox for wording and options, even though I don't think this article needs half of those fields.  Miss Mondegreen | Talk   11:56, 19 March 2007 (UTC)