Talk:Verrado High School

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November 12, 2022	Featured article candidate	Not promoted

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The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Verrado High School in Arizona offers all-female engineering classes?

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Thanks to Sammi for starting this.

My name is Aaron and I go to VHS. I have been wanting to start this for awhile but was unsure about the templates and whatnot. I have been going to VHS for 4 years now so I find myself adept in completing most of this page. If you have any questions or concerns, please go forth.

Aaronmthompson (talk) 04:55, 13 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

ok 209.82.165.136 (talk) 21:31, 4 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Kingsif (talk) 04:51, 16 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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... that initial plans for Verrado High School failed to consider acoustics, resulting in an undesired auditory experience? Source: CTDG
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Piano Quintet (Schnittke)

5x expanded by SyntheticSystems (talk). Self-nominated at 20:09, 10 November 2022 (UTC).[reply]

Well, this is a bit surreal, SyntheticSystems. I created this stub 12 years ago this week, and now here it is at DYK by a user who is clearly pointing a ton of time and attention at it—as their first contribution, no less. Welcome, and thanks for doing a QPQ on your first contribution!
- DYKcheck does not tell me it's a 5x, which might be because of past vandalism reversions (I can easily see that happening on a high school article, having made more than half of the ones on high schools in this state), so I checked manually. The page was 2,376 bytes readable prose before expansion and is now 11,537 characters. (I did some copyediting, and it now sits at 11,568.) A 5x expansion is 11,880 characters. You need 312 characters readable prose to get this to 5x.
- The source checks out, though I'm not sure it's the type of source I'd use to anchor a DYK hook. It's a blurb from a construction company. It is interesting, but I don't know if it holds up on source scrutiny. I am presenting some alternate hooks for your consideration. ALT2 requires an edit to the article, but it jumped out at me while I was perusing the list of references, and it might help you close the characters gap.
  - ALT1: ... that Verrado High School incorporates elements of New Urbanism in its design? (AGF to Byrne)
  - ALT2: ... that Verrado High School in Arizona offers all-female engineering classes? [1]

I like the second one more but both are great and better than mine. SyntheticSystems (talk) 18:00, 12 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

- Non-DYK aside: I can provide newspapers.com clippings for any missing (offline) Arizona Republic articles and will likely add them myself at some point.
I have additional comments for you that aren't related to the DYK process that I will be placing on your user talk page. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 05:55, 12 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

As I noted in my comments at the article's FAC, there are two issues I see with how we're handling apparently copyrighted media: the logo in the infobox is uploaded without evidence of a valid license, and an image containing that logo prominently on the side of a building is problematic from an FOP perspective if the logo is copyrighted. The design looks modern enough that I can't definitively declare it too old to be copyrighted, and we plainly can't pass DYKs with extant image copyvio because those articles are in violation of our non-free content policy and thereby violate WP:DYKCRIT#4 (passing an article with problems with the close paraphrasing or copyright violations of images and/or text is a no-can-do). This is going to need to be fixed if this should move forward through DYK. I'll conduct a more thorough review soon, but I wanted to state this here before I go on and do that. — Red-tailed hawk _(nest) 07:04, 12 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- I fixed that. SyntheticSystems (talk) 15:11, 15 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  - Courtesy ping Red-tailed hawk. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 21:08, 19 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    - Ping noted. I no longer have an objection based upon the improper use of non-free files. — Red-tailed hawk _(nest) 02:22, 21 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
      - Sammi Brie, are there other issues remaining? DYKcheck gives the current prose size as 12511 characters, which it says is a 5x expansion. BlueMoonset (talk) 02:20, 9 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
        @BlueMoonset: I'm still unsure if ALT0's source (which is a construction case study by a company [2]) should be anchoring the hook. I proposed ALT1 and ALT2 as well. But no textual issues. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 03:18, 9 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
        Thanks, Sammi Brie. Since you proposed the ALT hooks, we'd better get a new reviewer in here. BlueMoonset (talk) 05:12, 9 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

New reviewer needed to conduct a full review since one reviewer has not returned and the other proposed two of the ALT hooks. BlueMoonset (talk) 05:12, 9 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- Courtesy ping to Red-tailed hawk. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 06:58, 9 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  - Alt 2 looks good to me. — Red-tailed hawk _(nest) 07:17, 9 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    - To clarify, I have reviewed the article for all the criteria, and it looks fine at this point. I like Alt2 over Alt1 for reasons of interestingness, and I think this is ready for promotion, BlueMoonset. — Red-tailed hawk _(nest) 05:52, 11 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Section headers

@SyntheticSystems, per MOS:OVERSECTION: "Very short sections and subsections clutter an article with headings and inhibit the flow of the prose. Short paragraphs and single sentences generally do not warrant their own subheading." The article and the table of contents look much nicer and read much more smoothly without these subheadings. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 05:24, 7 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]