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article written in 1981[edit]

Hi, myname is Teresa Gideon, when I was a senior in high school, at Bishop DuBourg, in St. louis, Mo. i wrote a, article, and everyone in our class had to do the same, whose ever article was chosen by your team, we would get an A for the semester,my senior year!! but overtime I have misplaced my copy of the magazine,and I can't exactly remember the month of 1981,it was in my second semester, my name at the time was Teresa Scholtes. I would absolutley love to have a copy to pass on to my children.Myemail adress is (Redacted) my telephone number is (Redacted) Could someone please help me find that issue!!?? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:6C40:4500:7242:1DF:CCCF:A6C6:375E (talk) 19:36, 20 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Teresa. First of all, I've removed your e-mail and telephone number from your query, and I hope that someone who knows how to will shortly remove them from the History of this page, where they could still be found with some effort – it is a very bad idea to publish these details openly on the Internet, because they could be used by criminals for various nefarious purposes, most of which would cost you money. In any case, nobody on Wikipedia will respond by contacting you directly using those methods – any replies will be here on this Reference Desk.

Secondly, a small point: it's helpful if you end all your posts on Talk and Reference desk pages by signing with four tildes, like this ~~~~ – this adds the time and date, plus your IP address, so we all know who's saying what when.

Regarding your query: have you tried to contact your old high School directly? If anyone has a copy of the magazine in question, it would surely be them. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 90.197.25.111 (talk) 20:54, 20 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I have hidden the revision containing the contact details. To permanently remove it from history would require access to the Wikipedia database and that is (and should be) far beyond my powers. JIP | Talk 21:42, 20 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Teresa, what magazine was this? If it was a magazine associated with the school, you could try to contact them directly. Temerarius (talk) 23:04, 20 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Also, you wrote "chosen by your team". That cannot have been our team; Wikipedia did not exist before the year 2001. So whose team was this? (By the way, did you know that the current president of Bishop DuBourg High School is also a 1981 alumnus? Perhaps you know him. His name is Mark Bayens.^[1]) --Lambiam 00:28, 21 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think the OP means Wikipedia when she says "your team". I think it means the team of high school students when they were writing the article. JIP | Talk 07:21, 21 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

You're right - it's an example of Generic you. AndrewWTaylor (talk) 12:29, 21 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Can the name of the magazine have been The Cavalier? It is reportedly published once a year for the alumni, families and friends of Bishop DuBourg High School, so knowing the month is probably of no importance. Check this out. --Lambiam 00:45, 21 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Does this look familiar? --Lambiam 08:24, 21 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]