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Pewamo-Westphalia Community Schools

The above article is a mess, but your edits did not improve it. The article you edited is on the school district, not the high school. The article you edited is really in need of help, but writing more there on the high school is not helpful. For starts, it is already written as if it were about the high school. Instead it should include the history of the district, a Template:Infobox school district should be added, a bulleted list of schools in the district, a brief overview of the structure of the district, perhaps a listing of the elected officials, current district stats from NCES, etc.

Now what might be a better tact for you would be to create the article on the high school. Most of the info you added would be good in the school's article.

Template:Infobox school would be the first thing, followed by a lede. The lede should start (first word) with the school's name, bolded, followed by the city, state and country the school is in. The lede should also contain the grades the school serves and the name of the school district.

The next section would be history, if you have any sources. If you cannot find any, just omit it for now.

Next should be academics, where you would mention the US News & World Report ranking, a listing of AP courses if any (which you can source to the school), and any academic teams that compete interscholastically (eg, speech and debate, chess, Model UN, robotics etc). You can source the existence of those activities to the school, but any details or achievements must have reliable secondary sources. We only discuss top level achievements, and we do not discuss achievement of any individuals (nor do we mention any individual names - staff or students).

Next section should be demographics, which should be sourced to NCES. A good example can be found at Vicksburg High School (Michigan).

Athletics come next, which can be sourced completely to various pages at MHSAA.COM. Again, Vicksburg is a good example.

Notable alumni follows. The people listed must have biographies on Wikipedia (if they do not have a Wikipedia biography, you cannot add them. You can't use a piped link to an article that mentions them). If the school is mentioned in referenced copy in their biography, you must add a reference to attendance in the listing. Each entry should include their name, wikilinked to their biographies, and their primary notability only. Grad dates, teams played for, etc. should not be included. Names should be in a bullet list, alphabetically by last name.

References come next. I'll leave instructions for them in a separate section.

The last section should be external links. The only two you should include are the school's website and the school district website.

I'll be glad to help, but I'd strongly suggest registering an account just to make communication easier. Your home IP sometimes changes, and of course you'd have a different IP if you use a different computer or other device (I mostly use my phone).

You should start the article at Draft:Pewamo-Westphalia High School. I'll move it into the encyclopedia when it is ready.

Thanks. John from Idegon (talk) 05:19, 13 June 2019 (UTC)

June 2020

Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Michigan State University, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear to be constructive and has been reverted. If you only meant to make a test edit, please use the sandbox for that. Thank you. Favonian (talk) 15:44, 9 June 2020 (UTC)

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