John from Idegon
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Thank you for all your work on school articles. It hasn't gone unnoticed. Time perhaps to list you as an official coordinator of WP:WPSCH. . --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 00:53, 1 October 2015 (UTC)
- Ty! I'd be honored. John from Idegon (talk) 00:54, 1 October 2015 (UTC)
Erledigt - that also evens the score a bit from us Limeys ruling the roost! --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 11:04, 1 October 2015 (UTC)- John, be sure to have this page: Wikipedia:WikiProject Schools/Article alerts on your watchlist. The bot runs every 24 hours and will automatically inform you of major maintenance tags affecting school article. If you then see an item on a report that needs addressing, you can do it, vote on an Afd, or remove a POD, help on an GA/FA, etc. If something needs admin action you can let me know. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 15:16, 2 October 2015 (UTC)
Re: People from Grand Rapids
With all due respect, are you reading the edit summary? Colleen O'Shaughnessey and Colleen Villard are the same person; O'Shaughnessey changed her name following her marriage and is now credited under her married name of Villard, as seen in recent series she's appeared in such as Sonic Boom. If you click the O'Shaughnessey link, you go to the Villard article; that redirect has been in place for almost a year. I'm not removing content, nor is this a case of adding uncited material. This is replacing a redirect with a direct link to the exact same content and nothing more. -- 68.37.227.226 (talk) 01:11, 2 October 2015 (UTC)
- I would pose the same question to you. I've stated in the edit summary that the problem is there is no referenced content in her bio tying her to Grand Rapids. Notability is proven by the existence of the biographical article; tie to the community must be shown by reference, either in her bio or on the list. --John from Idegon (talk) 01:19, 2 October 2015 (UTC)
- All three of the external links present on her page tie her to Grand Rapids. Even if they're not used as in-line citations, they're still on her page and clearly labeled. -- 68.37.227.226 (talk) 01:24, 2 October 2015 (UTC)
- None of those links are reliable sources. Please read WP:RS and WP:NLIST. --John from Idegon (talk) 01:40, 2 October 2015 (UTC)
- The warning on my talk page was uncalled for. You asked me to provide a source, so I tried to find one as you suggested, and went with one that I saw cited on other Wikipedia pages, assuming it was considered acceptable. I haven't violated 3RR either, so I'd appreciate a little more recognition of good faith. -- 68.37.227.226 (talk) 04:12, 2 October 2015 (UTC)
- None of those links are reliable sources. Please read WP:RS and WP:NLIST. --John from Idegon (talk) 01:40, 2 October 2015 (UTC)
- All three of the external links present on her page tie her to Grand Rapids. Even if they're not used as in-line citations, they're still on her page and clearly labeled. -- 68.37.227.226 (talk) 01:24, 2 October 2015 (UTC)
Gene93k
Hey there! Remember way back in May when you supported Gene93k to be Editor of the Week? He was finally presented with the award this week. It looks as if Buster tried to ping those of us who nominated or supported him, but the ping didn't work (at least in my case). You may want to go to Gene's talk page and congratulate him. MelanieN (talk) 16:08, 2 October 2015 (UTC)
Mark Hanna Watkins, born in Huntsville, Texas
Hi! Your comment on my addition to notable people from Huntsville was very quick. The page on Mark Hanna Watkins is now created and he was indeed a notable person. Margaret Wade-Lewis in her article about Watkins writes: "Watkins’s journey through life was a historic one. He was a first in a number of ways—one of the first known black Americans to receive a PhD in anthropology (Moses 1999:85–100), the first American to write a grammar of an African language, the first anthropologist to participate in the creation of an African studies program in the United States, and the first black member of many professional organizations, among them the Society of the Sigma Xi.≤ He was one of the founding fathers of anthropology and linguistics in America." Kanjuzi (talk) 20:42, 3 October 2015 (UTC)
- So might I suggest the better procedure ongoing might be to create the article first, then add the individual to notable lists? This avoids wasting all the time this took both of us! Happy editing. John from Idegon (talk) 21:06, 3 October 2015 (UTC)
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About Gaither High School
It was about a military thing, so I think it should be left. ThisGuyIsGreat (talk) 01:06, 4 October 2015 (UTC)
- So what policy, guideline or reliable secondary source supports your action? John from Idegon (talk) 01:13, 4 October 2015 (UTC)
I just think any military article should have a place. ThisGuyIsGreat (talk) 01:21, 4 October 2015 (UTC)
- You are new. You need to understand something. I'll say this as nicely as I can, but it is something you need to know. No one here cares what either you or I "think". Everything that is here is based on the three things named above. Opinion may be your "why", but unless you can mount an arguement based on one of those three things, no one will care. This is an encyclopedia, not a blog. John from Idegon (talk) 01:29, 4 October 2015 (UTC)
Dude, Im not trying to start an edit war. Can we just leave it at what I wrote? ThisGuyIsGreat (talk) 02:08, 4 October 2015 (UTC)
- No. None of the achievements are encyclopedic. Until I can find a place to write the unit's existence in in a different place in the article, I will leave the section there. John from Idegon (talk) 02:32, 4 October 2015 (UTC)
I've undone your redirect of Gabriela Mistral Elementary School for several reasons:
- I believe your lack of notability claim to be incorrect. A school being created in this area in 2015 because it was masking a failing school of low socioeconomic population is notable and significant in this area.
- You made a redirect to the school district page and made no effort to preserve any of the work that went into creating the school page.
- The page is under active construction (check the edit history and you'll see that I'm building it up a piece at a time), and also making sure that everything is properly sourced and attributed. Saying that it doesn't meet content guidelines when new sections were added as recently as yesterday seems a bit excessive.
Given that you could see that edits were happening frequently to the page, deleting the page without discussing it on talk seems really quite rude.
jbailey (talk) 13:49, 4 October 2015 (UTC)
- Erledigt Thanks - for everyone else, followups to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gabriela Mistral Elementary School