User talk:Hopetonbailey

Hello, Hopetonbailey, and welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages you might find helpful:

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Thank you Ian

Thanks Ian Hopetonbailey (talk) 16:09, 30 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome!

Hello Ian, How do I go about publishing my page. (Hopetonbailey (talk) 20:50, 15 July 2019 (UTC))[reply]

Hello, Hopetonbailey, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Ian and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:53, 11 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Response

Thank you Shalor, I truly appreciate the feedback.

Hopetonbailey (talk) 16:05, 30 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Response

Hi! It looks like Ian (Wiki Ed) is the one supervising your course, however I did fix some of the formatting in your sandbox. I do have some cautions for you about your page, however.

Avoid point of view wording and statements in the article. For example, the word "tough" is something that is inherently an opinion. Even if it's a widely held one, it's still something that needs to be attributed to a specific person if it's used in an article. You also want to avoid things like "rich in the tradition" and "shining beacon" since that comes across as promotional, even if this wasn't your intent.

Do not use wording such as "we" and "you" in the article, as this comes across as being written from the viewpoint of a specific person and towards a particular person or group. Articles should be written in third person. It's also too casual in tone.

The article needs to have in-line citations to back up claims, especially when making very major claims such as the high school uniting warring factions.

This also needs more sourcing that is independent of the school and in reliable places such as newspapers, academic and scholarly books/journals, and the like. Keep in mind that schools are not automatically notable for existing, so you'll need to show where they've been covered by places other than the school and any person or organization affiliated with it. The source should also focus on the school as the sole focus or heavily focus on it. Always make sure that you're careful to check if the source was written by someone who works for/with the school (or is otherwise affiliated with it), as this would make it a primary source and as such, can't establish notability. For example, this newspaper article was written by someone who works for the school. Even though it was put out by a newspaper, since it was written by a school employee the piece is going to be seen as a primary source.

Be careful when it comes to schools in general as most times individual schools aren't going to get the amount or type of coverage that's needed to establish notability on Wikipedia. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 13:43, 28 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]