Talk:San Ramon Valley High School/Archive 1

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Thank you to whoever started this article! Now I can tell my teachers about it and say, "Hey look, there's a Wikipedia article about our school! -dogman15 03:24, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

Joke Content

I removed the joke content. Though I personally thought it was funny, it doesn't belong on Wikipedia. Perhaps you should post it here. -VikingofRock 22:32, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

The Bubble Tea Club

Is this for real? I removed it, truly thinking it was vandalism, but then someone else added it, saying that my removal was vandalism. Then, I believe, they added a "{{test3}}" to my talk page What's this all about?
-dogman15 23:42, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

It's as real as the men civil liberties club... --69.111.133.147 10:37, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Stop Reverting!

Mike Dvorak retook the SAT and got a 2400. The rest about sports is factual information. stop calling me a vandal, I actually go to this school and am posting actual information, if you have a problem leave me a message -John Smith 47

cite your sources, there's no evidence that students at the other schools in the district didn't get a 2400. And your stuff about the sports team is clearly vandalism, "football team is now marred by mediocricty" is an example of vandalism. When you post something on wikipedia, it says clearly: "Encyclopedic content must be verifiable." Take a look @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability and you'll see whats wrong with the stuff you've been posting. --69.111.133.147 10:35, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Infobox

I originally set this page up with a table much like Monte Vista High School (Danville, California)'s, then I changed it to a Template:Infobox_Secondary_school, much like Berkeley High School but while browsing the Wikipedia list of infoboxes I noticed the Template:High_School_Infobox. I decided the High School infobox is a bit better, mainly because it mentions the athletic league (also the high school one seems a bit more official since it's actually on Wikipedia:List_of_infoboxes). However the secondary school infobox has more information and looks a bit nicer. If anyone has any suggestions or reasons to go back to the secondary school infobox, I'd love to hear it.

I've also seen just a school infobox such as Foothill High School. --sepht 08:22, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Maybe also something like Carondelet High School's Education in the US Infobox... --sepht 02:29, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

Alumni

Sam Finlayson is not technically an alumni and probably shouldn't be listed under the Notable Alumni section, at least until June-something-or-other 2007. He's still a senior at SRVHS and Webster's defines alumni as "a person who has attended or has graduated from a particular school, college, or university." I do think he should be recognized on the page for the time being, maybe under an athletics section? --sepht 10:12, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Same goes for Corbin Louks (Utah), Ryan Vandersloot (Yale), and Roy Helu (Nebraska), seeing as they all are attending their universities with football deals (scholarships?), it was published in a cctimes article and therefor probably should be listed on the page as notable. [1] --sepht 22:10, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Unofficial Clubs

I saw that this was deleted because of a lack of notability. However, it seems to me that the article on notability was talking about entire articles, not just information within them. So for the time being, I have re-added the section. The section should stay until a consensus is reached on this discussion page. --VikingofRock 05:45, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Well it seems to me you are illiterate. The article on Notability clearly defines itself in it's first sentence, "All topics should meet a minimum threshold of notability for an article on that topic to be included in Wikipedia." Topics doesn't mean articles, it means all topics mentioned or posted about. Hell if you want a definition of topic: "the subject or theme of a discourse or of one of its parts." As for the more specific definition of notability, "a topic is notable if it has been the subject of multiple, non-trivial, reliable published works, whose sources are independent of the subject itself." Nearly all of the information in the unofficial clubs section is, standing on it's own, clearly not notable; most of the information posted in said section has no citations and has yet to be published anywhere, let alone multiple times. If you want more of a basis, Wikipedia is not for things made up in school one day outlines that "School crazes, fads, and fashions can end up covered in Wikipedia, but only if someone first sits down and researches them, and publishes a book, an academic paper, or a magazine/journal article detailing that research. Such resources are reliable, and therefore the subject can become eligible for Wikipedia." Until someone publishes this information about unofficial clubs, it stays out, it's as simple as that. --sepht 20:56, 17 February 2007 (UTC)