Talk:North High School (Bakersfield, California)

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June 2011 Re-Assessment

I am assessing this article after a request was made here.

This is the version being assessed

The proposer of this article Jazzfan1980 (talk · contribs) requested that this article be assessed against the B-Class criteria.

These are the B-Class criteria:

B	The article is suitably referenced, with inline citations where necessary. It has reliable sources, and any important or controversial material which is likely to be challenged is cited. The use of either <ref> tags or citation templates such as `{{cite web}}` is not required. The article reasonably covers the topic, and does not contain obvious omissions or inaccuracies. It contains a large proportion of the material necessary for an A-Class article, although some sections may need expansion, and some less important topics may be missing. The article has a defined structure. Content should be organized into groups of related material, including a lead section and all the sections that can reasonably be included in an article of its kind. The article is reasonably well-written. The prose contains no major grammatical errors and flows sensibly, but it certainly need not be "brilliant". The Manual of Style need not be followed rigorously. The article contains supporting materials where appropriate. Illustrations are encouraged, though not required. Diagrams and an infobox etc. should be included where they are relevant and useful to the content. The article presents its content in an appropriately understandable way. It is written with as broad an audience in mind as possible. Although Wikipedia is more than just a general encyclopedia, the article should not assume unnecessary technical background and technical terms should be explained or avoided where possible.

I am not going to assess the article against the above criteria, as this article is clearly far below this standard, however here are my observations/suggestions for improvements:

The article is not using an info-box. The current table is not visually appealing, is hard to edit/keep up to date, takes up a large amount of space in the edit window & is not consistent with the school article guidelines (WP:WPSCH/AG). My suggestion is to move the information over the standard school info-box {{Infobox_school}}.

There should not be external links within an article, except in a dedicated section to the bottom of the page, or in an info-box.

The administration section is redundant and in my opinion should be removed.

The academic section should not list all the information about the schools academics, and should only list information that is different about the school, from what I can see it just follows the standard US curriculum. This section should also be presented as prose, rather than as a list.

The words to the school song should be removed as per WP:WPSCH/AG.

The history section is largely unreferenced, and could do with expansion. It is a key B-class criteria that all information must be suitably referenced (suitably can be interpreted many ways - in general it is accepted that all facts that might be challenged are referenced)

The list of clubs and organisations should be removed, as all this information can be readily found on the school website here

I have therefore decided that this article is of Start-Class, Low importance.

There should be plenty to be getting on with in my comments above, if you would like any more help or guidance please leave a message on the general project talk page or on my talk page. Thanks Glanis^Talk 17:06, 14 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]