User talk:SpartanJill

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The Wikipedia tutorial is a good place to start learning about Wikipedia. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and discussion pages using four tildes, like this: ~~~~ (the software will replace them with your signature and the date). Again, welcome! John from Idegon (talk) 20:58, 30 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Jill. Sorry to say, but you picked a really poor article to start on. Like many high school articles, this one had been ignored for too long, and as a consequence, local editors have filled it with WP:SCHOOLCRUFT and effectively turned it into a social media page for the school. Let me give you some tips:

An encyclopedia article should be based almost completely on information paraphrased from reliable secondary sources, totally independent of the subject. What little is allowed to be sourced to the subject should be completely mundane, like the address. Nothing whatsoever in an encyclopedia article can be based on personal knowledge.
The target audience of an encyclopedia article is the world. In sociopolitical geography articles, this is quite important. If it is primarily of interest to the locale of the subject, it probably shouldn't be included.
There are editing guidelines specifically for schools and settlements. These may help you understand the points I'm trying to make.

It's my intention to clean up the HHS article shortly after the holiday. Happy editing! John from Idegon (talk) 21:43, 30 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia: check out the Teahouse!

Hello! SpartanJill, you are invited to the Teahouse, a forum on Wikipedia for new editors to ask questions about editing Wikipedia, and get support from peers and experienced editors. Please join us! John from Idegon (talk) 21:00, 30 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]