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This article covers Dixie High School information for the most part. All information is verifiable through dixiehigh.org.

Please provide citations

Please provide references for everything in this article. Wherever possible, the references should come from outside the school. Rely on school and student publications as a last resort. Online sources are preferred but books and print-only newspapers are perfectly acceptable. See WP:CITE for details. davidwr ^09f9 04:14, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Dixie High School (Utah) target of repeated vandalism - please WATCH the article

Dixie High School (Utah) is the target of repeated vandalism. Most of it appears to be juvenile nonsense, probably from students at that school or other schools. Please add it to your watch list and revert vandalism. Semi-protecting the page is impractical since most legitimate edits are anonymous and it's in the article's best interest for students at that school to make on-the-spot edits to improve or update the article. davidwr ^09f9(talk) 15:00, 19 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Necessary revisions

After looking over this article, I've found sections that do not deserve to be in this article, namely:

Executive Council
Graduating Class of 2007
DHS Sterling Scholar Program

Aside from these section removals, this needs the attention of someone familiar with the school as the arts section and awards sections need a major overhaul. If there are no objections raised about the section removals in a week or so, I'll remove them. Imasleepviking 00:44, 20 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please keep the Valedictorian and Class President. Personally, I would like to see High School pages include the top class officer and top graduate from recent years as well as any that qualify as prominent alumni. The rest should go.

On an unrelated note, I wish a group of people with ties to Utah would take responsibility for policing Utah school pages. This one at least attracts vandals. davidwr ^09f9(talk) 01:20, 25 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

As a recent, somewhat Wiki-literate, Alum of Dixie, I'll try and step up a little. I'll also inform the Cyber Corps - they'll probably cover it.

In actuality, the Sterling Scholar program is a big thing (I myself am a runner-up) and I'd like to see it stay, with maybe a short explanation of what it is - which I'll get to eventually. As for Exec, I'd say it stays, though maybe in a condensed, not-a-list form. The local rival school with a functioning article Snow Canyon High School is probably what I'm thinking.

So - I'll try and do what I can to try and clean up the article. Least I can do for my school. :) And I'll try to find some verification for the schools history - a near-centenarian school needs a little bit of love. KrypticKlaws 05:37, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

FYI, Cyber Corps had a short-lived article. It wasn't well-written and got speedy-deleted due to lack of notability, see User_talk:Floodbud for details.

If you can, try to find things of notable or historical interest to add to the page. Did any famous people ever give a speech there? Was the building used for any notable event, perhaps as a shelter during a famous storm? Is it a magnet school or does it have other special program not found at most high schools in Utah? Are there more famous alumni? How many alumni gave their lives in Americas various wars? And so on. Other than a few state championships, tell me why it is any different from any other high school in Utah.

Personally, I'd like to see a "schools" Wikipedia project, where "notable" PK-12 schools got pages in the main namespace and every other school in the country was listed in another web site, something like wiktionary. Realisticly, this could only work if the task was automated, much like how the Wikipedia pages for small towns and counties came into being, using data from government sources and, I think, a mostly automated process. Such a project would not have a notability requirement and students, teachers, alumni, parents, and others would be encouraged to fill the page with all manner of trivia, provided it was verifiable. davidwr ^09f9(talk) 22:53, 27 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Worth moving 2006-2007 and 2007-2008 to own sections?

I think it would make a cleaner article to move all "temporary" information, such as information related to the classes of 2007 and 2008, to their own sections. Information that turns out to have notable historical interest can be moved to the "main" part of the article later, information which is of little historical interest can be deleted. After all, we don't have class officer lists for 1913-2006, nor would they be appropriate here unless an individual did something significant while in office, like shake hands with a sitting President or something. I might be OK with a list of class presidents and a list of valedictorians, but beyond that almost a century of names will get long fast. davidwr (talk) 22:25, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Art Section Overhaul

I agree with the above statement that the art section needs a major overhaul. Specific details about the 2006 musical such as actors are not necessary. I think the art section should focus on school programs as a whole as well as prominent faculty members heading those departments.Mathwiz91 02:37, 22 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, a few of the sections were created by ameteurs, I took the liberty to fix the page to it's current state. It doesn't need to be as detailed as the website, it's wikipedia. I removed many unnecessary sections and internal links. The article looks a lot better and I hope it stays that way. Thanks for the mention Mathwiz. volumesoxxs 05:02, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot 02:57, 26 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"DIXIE" hillside letters

Are there any photos available for the the "DIXIE" hillside letters for this school? See also List of Hillside Letters in Utah for more details. -- 208.81.184.4 (talk) 19:00, 1 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

If not, I can sure get it. About 6 blocks from me. --Man way 05:59, 2 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

That'd be great! -- 208.81.184.4 (talk) 15:01, 2 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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