Talk:Vel Phillips Memorial High School

Notable Alumni deleted

I've deleted the Notable Alumni section. All of the entries have been tagged as needing citations for over a month. Feel free to re-add the section along with notable alumni, but please follow these guidelines: 1. Only include people who have their own Wikipedia article. If they're not notable enough to have their own article, they probably aren't really notable. 2. This article will need a citation for their attendance at JMM. I suggest old yearbooks. Local newspaper clippings covering local sports would also be a good source. To just make the entries useful, I also suggest that the description should just be a short sentence. Readers who want more information can go to the full article. Also be sure to list which years the person attended JMM, and if they graduated. — Alan De Smet | Talk 22:39, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject class rating

This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 10:19, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Basketball

some one needs to document how raw the basketball team has been the past few years. They were good as fuck something like only 5 losses in 5 years

Feel free to add it. But... unless you can cite reliable sources it will probably be deleted. But if Memorial is rocking so hard, surely the Wisconsin State Journal has said as much? That would be a great source. — Alan De Smet | Talk 05:13, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Article Here This article is about their state title this year. It also has some info about their players. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 139.135.124.151 (talk) 08:16, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Thanks! I've integrated what I believe was the most relevant fact (that they won in 2009); feel free to add more facts that can the cited to the article. — Alan De Smet | Talk 04:52, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

WP:SCHOOLS and James Madison Memorial High School

In your edits to James Madison Memorial High School, you keep linking to WP:SCHOOLS to explain your edits. I keep reading WP:SCHOOLS and I'm not seeing what you're talking about. I do note that the page begins, "This is a failed proposal," so it's not an appropriate guideline to be pointing to. Secondly, you are quoting some source as saying, "Specific students should not be mentioned unless they are notable in their own right," and "The names of current and former teachers should only be included if they are notable in their own right, or they have been the subject of multiple non-trivial press coverage." Those sentences are simply not present in WP:SCHOOLS. Finally, you comment, "no WP article=not notable." Lack of a Wikipedia article isn't a standard for notability, and indeed inverts notability considerations: notability is used as a test to decide if a Wikipedia article could exist. — Alan De Smet | Talk 17:37, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

Our general article guidelines and firmly-maintained past practice agree, that we should not clutter up articles like this with lists of persons who are not notable enough for their own articles in Wikipedia. Otherwise, it becomes a student, faculty and/or alumni directory, and thus a violation of WP:NOT#DIRECTORY. --Orange Mike | Talk 17:42, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

Firmly-maintained past practice is not a Wikipedia guideline I was previously familiar with. I'm also unfamiliar with any guidelines suggesting we omit naming people relevant to an article for which we have citations. WP:BIO, specifically WP:BIO1E, calls out that someone may be noteworthy enough in the context of another article to mention, but not noteworthy enough for their own article. There are a huge number of guidelines on Wikipedia, it's entirely possible I'm unfamiliar with the relevant one; could you please direct me to it? — Alan De Smet | Talk 20:46, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

The ones that come immediately to mind are Wikipedia:Source list#Listed items and WP:NOT#DIR. --Orange Mike | Talk 23:18, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

Well, I'm not making up those sentences. I cut and pasted them directly from WP:SCHOOLS. "Specific students..." and "The names of..." are both in WP:WPSCHOOLS/AG#S. You should be able to find them by doing a search. As to Vander Blue, there are hundreds of thousands of high school students who get athletic scholarships to universities every year. It's not noteworthy enough to mention in a school article. --Sift&Winnow 17:53, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

Year of Establishment

I saw on a class report website that the first students graduated from Memorial High School in 1934, so how could it have been built in 1966? Cbsteffen (talk) 23:57, 10 September 2011 (UTC)

Reply: Feb 22 2013: That is incorrect. The school was indeed established in 1966. The information you were provided with may be from Madison West, which was the first Madison high school established in the 1930's. — Preceding unsigned comment added by EPPR888 (talk • contribs) 04:10, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

Name Change

Hello Y’all, I don’t know how Wikipedia works, but JMM was just renamed to Vel Phillips Memorial High School, which means that the title of the page needs to be updated. How does one go about doing that? 2600:6C44:117F:9285:25A7:3687:23DC:259B (talk) 02:09, 23 November 2021 (UTC)