Talk:Barnstable High School

Barnstable High School was a Social sciences and society good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

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Date	Process	Result
October 20, 2006	Articles for deletion	Kept
June 1, 2009	Good article nominee	Not listed

Current status: Former good article nominee

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Barnstable High School Marching Band was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 23 April 2009 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Barnstable High School. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

VERY impressive school![edit]

I'm personally glad this article was not deleted. Although not an alumnus of BHS (Barnstable High School) myself, I graduated from one of the neighboring "rival" high schools (D-Y). BHS is DEFINITELY in a class of its own, especially after the expansion and addition of the Performing Arts Center. Any "naysayers" need only see the school for themselves. It is impressive! -J

GA Review[edit]

This review is transcluded from Talk:Barnstable High School/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

I don't think this article is anywhere near GA yet, and I'm inviting you to withdraw, since it's bound to fail

The lead does not summarise the article Wikipedia:Lead section
Much of the text lacks references
The refs that are there are lacking information and are not necessarily formatted correctly per WP:MOS. As one example, ref 5 does not give the website, the date of publication or the author
The section headings are incorrectly capitalised per WP:MOS
At least one ref is also an external link
the prose needs checking and formatting the book tiles should be italicised too. I think you mean alumni, not attendees unless they are still at school.
The text is not encyclopaedic or neutral, eg
- The music department is renowned in town because of its many accomplishments. is spam unless you can give it an independent verifiable source - there are many similar unsourced claims
- The school itself has had a long and tumultuous history. one of several non-encyclopaedic sentences

I think there's too much to do to get this through in a reasonable time, this is the sort of article you need to aim for.

jimfbleak (talk) 17:05, 2 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Scale grade[edit]

I do not think this school is significant to become a 'Mid' importance level. A school that'd might be a Mid-class would be for an example: Sandy Hook. Nick2crosby (talk) 15:43, 14 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Notables[edit]

Add to notables: Dennis Chase ('78) a contestant and a winner of Jeopardy. Twomermaids (talk) 03:14, 11 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

No. There is no ref to show he attended, and he has no article to show his notability. Meters (talk) 04:42, 11 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]