User talk:Hsradioguy

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Hello, Hsradioguy, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{Help me}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or or by typing four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. Also, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! BusterD (talk) 03:53, 7 April 2015 (UTC) Getting started Introduction Contributing to Wikipedia The five pillars of Wikipedia How to edit a page Intuitive guide to Wikipedia Finding your way around Table of contents Department directory Help directory Editing articles How to develop an article Simplified Manual of Style Getting help Frequently asked questions Cheatsheet Where to ask a question Help pages New contributors' help page Article Wizard – a Wizard to help you create articles How you can help Community Portal Join a WikiProject Follow Wikipedia etiquette Practice civility Discover what's going on in the Wikimedia community

A suggestion as to how to get material about the radio station into an article unlikely to face deletion

Hi Hsradioguy! I noticed you'd posted on the talk page of the admin who'd speedy deleted the radio station page. Looking through histories, I see the high school's newspaper was also speedied back in 2007. However, high schools themselves are generally presumed to be notable, given verification in multiple reliable sources independent of the subject. Once the Vacaville Christian High School and/or Vacaville Christian Schools pages are established, sections could be created which detail activities like the radio station and the student newspaper. If I can be of assistance in helping your students develop such a page, I'd be only too happy to help. BTW, I've taken the liberty of removing your email from that page. Some editors later regret leaving personal information where it can be scooped and misused. That deleting admin can contact you via this talk page if desired. BusterD (talk) 04:11, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

Thanks BusterD! Your help would be greatly appreciated!

I'm not frustrated -- in fact, I'm encouraged that so much attention is payed to the information posted in Wikipedia.

I didn't know that there was a deletion issue in 2007 with the student newspaper. I looks like we have a bit of work to do to be included. Hsradioguy (talk) 21:05, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

Glad to be helpful. First subject, threaded discussion on talk pages. Notice that I've edited your last post a bit. I've added indents to your comments by putting a full colon in front of each fresh line. Click the "edit this page" tab at the top of this page, and you can see how I've done this. Notice I put two colons in front of my comment, to indent it further. This helps the talk page threads to be easily readable, but the colons are transparent coding. BusterD (talk) 23:28, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

Notice that I've added three colons on this post. Now, second issue, The Talon. Here's a link to the previous attempt to have it included. If you click on the "edit this page" tab you'll see I've put two brackets [[ ]] around the link and the words identifying the link with a "stick" (capital \) to separate them. BusterD (talk) 23:33, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

Third issue. Have your students look for newspaper or magazine articles about your school or your school community. This could include an article describing how your sports teams are doing, or perhaps the history of VCS or VCHS. Perhaps an interview with an alumni who talks about VC. We're looking for links or print articles which meet WP:Identifying reliable sources. They need to be be sources independent of VCS, so The Talon won't work yet. Once we've established WP:Notability we can use connected sources. So start those students looking through local papers, radio logs, local television videos. Here's an example of something which would help. If you read this post after clicking into edit mode, you'll see I formatted the internet link differently than the wikilink. One set of brackets, not two, and a space instead of a stick. I can Google just fine, but your students and their parents have better eyes than I and are connected better to local media. When you get a link, add it to a list. When we've got a number of links, we can start building the page. Remember, sources first. If we build a page from "what we know", then we're using WP:Original research or WP:Original synthesis and wikipedians don't allow themselves to do that.

For your reference, here's several examples of really nice high school pages: Amador Valley High School, Stuyvesant High School, Plano Senior High School. These are each judged as Featured Articles, representative of the best articles on Wikipedia. Looking at these can help us figure out how best to add material. But we'll likely start with something more modest. Look at items on this list. Cookeville High School is an example of a "stub" class article. This is the sort of thing with which we can easily start. Gather ye sources while ye may... BusterD (talk) 23:57, 9 April 2015 (UTC)