Talk:Tesla STEM High School
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[edit]For those IP editors, presumably pupils at Tesla STEM, an explanation as to why these edits keep being reverted. A key Wikipedia policy is verifiability which as that page explains means Readers must be able to check that any of the information within Wikipedia articles is not just made up. This means all material must be attributable to reliable, published sources.
Adding material with edit summaries that say Citations are unavailable due to requests of not directly publishing the interview to the public
and This interview was conducted by students talking to other students about their and their friends/families' thought's on the school
fails the verifiability requirement. This is not a judgment on the veracity of the information but simply that it fails to be verifiable. If you want the information to be allowed then the onus falls on you to see that it is supported by WP:reliable sources, preferably sources that are independent of the subject.
I appreciate that these edits are being made in "good faith" and that are wishing to add what you know to be correct but Wikipedia policy requires that you can prove that correctness and, at the moment, you are not managing to do that. Imagine I added to the article a statement that "Tesla STEM High School has a GPA of only 1.3" with an edit statement, "taken from a unpublished Washington state OSPI report". You'd call "foul" and you'd be right but the point remains that without a verifiable source, your material is equally as unacceptable as content in this article as my made-up example because neither statement can be proved.
There is another issue and that is the question of neutrality, name me a school where the students don't think the amount of homework is onerous; statements like 'many students have not been happy with this "feature" of the school' are not particularly neutral or for that matter noteworthy. Words like "sadly" aren't neutral either. As students you may be unhappy with various aspects of the school but Wikipedia isn't the place to express that disappointments. Nthep (talk) 15:34, 4 April 2022 (UTC)