Talk:Wilton High School

Just added this article... Am trying to write some more content into it. Please don't delete.

Added info box and notable alumni. Deputydog23 21:52, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

ProjectAsha

I have merged the content of ProjectAsha into this article. The 'ProjectAsha' article was tagged for speedy deletion and this merger provided an alternative to deletion. Note that a citation is needed to support the existence and nature of the project. --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 18:21, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Date Controversy

The actual Wilton High School opened in 1971, from 1959-1970 students attended other schools in town that were used also as the high school. Before that, students had to attend Staples High School in Westport, Connecticut. I am going to change the associated category.

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BetacommandBot 20:32, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

"Intricate detail"

Melcous I don't believe it's helpful to post a "too much detail" tag in the middle of the article the way you did. It's especially odd that in an article that contains relatively arcane sporting info from decades ago and bits of information about physical construction of the premises, you post the tag about recent events relating to public issues. I assume your tag is related to the "Build a Wall" disgrace at the Danbury game because you edited out supporting detail. (I note here that I had nothing to do with adding that section, but I see nothing wrong with it that good faith editing couldn't fix.) Since all Wiki policies are designed to work by consensus, wouldn't it have been better to raise the issue that concerns you in "Talk" rather than advertising your personal view in the article? Failing that, why didn't you just edit out the parts you sought were excessive? You had no qualms about doing some of it. You failure to raise the issue before both deleting matter and then posting the tag suggests to me that there is some POV issue you have, which also violates Wiki policy. Maybe I am wrong, but since you have not sought to discuss the issue, how is anyone to know? AnthroMimus (talk) 05:44, 4 December 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for posting this message. I don't have any WP:POV or WP:COI issues (I'm in Australia), just more an issue of not having time to figure some of the details out. I'd agree that there is other information on the page that is probably unnecessary too as well as the recent history stuff, although that seemed the most obvious to me as it feels like WP:RECENTISM in an encyclopedia article. I didn't "edit out supporting detail" - I removed an external link and a link to facebook because both are unacceptable under the linked guidelines and due to that, didn't require getting consensus to remove. Do you have specific suggestions as to how the article can be improved? Thanks Melcous (talk) 06:58, 4 December 2016 (UTC)

Actually, looking at it again now, I didn't remove the use of Facebook as a reference, I just removed it as an external link. Not sure it should stay there - if there is another, better source, that might also help indicate if the events have longer-lasting notability or if they should be removed. Cheers, Melcous (talk) 07:00, 4 December 2016 (UTC)

Excess editing

Melcous: You changed "country" to "United States" so that people around the world would know what country a high school in Connecticut was located in (as you helpfully point out in you edit comment.)

Then you cross-referenced "United States," evidently for those who don't know what the United States is.

Here are some other terms you might want to cross reference to get edit totals up and to acquaint our friends in places who can't click on Connecticut when they are in doubt of the country:

U.S. News and World Report

New York Times

Westport, New Canaan, Norwalk, Redding, Weston

population

academic year

secondary school

junior high school / middle school

town

theatre

physical restraint

town meeting

land

minority

legislation

special needs

This is just a start. I am sure you will find many more when you put your mind to it. AnthroMimus (talk) 23:21, 18 February 2017 (UTC)

Wow, thanks for the sarcasm! I'm not sure why you would have a problem with my edit or seem to think it was done just to 'get edit totals up'. It's standard to include country names and links in all kinds of articles, and in fact WP:WPSCHOOLS/AG#GT specifically says to include the country of a school in the lead section. And just because you or I might think it obvious, you shouldn't assume that every reader of wikipedia knows which country every state is in, even for the US. Cheers, Melcous (talk) 03:14, 19 February 2017 (UTC)

Wow, thanks for calling my effort to aid your good work sarcasm. I've seen how you like to paratroop into articles to enforce the latest WP:LITTLEPOLICY without reading the article or improving its substantive content, so I thought I would give you other opportunities. Especially since you believe that a Wikipedia reader looking at a small school in Connecticut might have no idea what country the school is in (that happens a lot, right?) and it was worth your time to help that hypothetical person out, I thought you might want to help that person know other potentially unfamiliar things, such as "town" (not everyone is from a country with an England-based system of municipal organization) or "town meeting" (I bet they don't have New England style town meetings in Australia). As for assuming you were interested in edit count, I apologize. I guess there are other reasons for buzzing articles solely for compliance with WP:MINORSTYLEPOINTS. Maybe to see what it feels like to be a bot? Cheers. AnthroMimus (talk) 21:50, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

Athletics titles

This material [1] has been repeatedly added. It's unsourced, and even if it were sourced we only list top level finishes (i.e., State championship wins for American high schools). We don't list runners up, and we don't list regional titles. See WP:WPSCH/AG#OS. Meters (talk) 05:29, 8 March 2021 (UTC)