Talk:Balboa High School (San Francisco, California)

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	Balboa High School (San Francisco, California) has been listed as one of the Social sciences and society good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can delist it, or ask for a reassessment.
Article milestones Date Process Result December 18, 2006 Peer review Reviewed March 29, 2007 Good article nominee Listed July 25, 2007 Peer review Reviewed Current Status: Good article

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To-do list for Balboa High School (San Francisco, California):	edit · history · watch · refresh
Here are some tasks you can do: Requests: Find and insert school seal image into infobox. Pictures of appropriate facilities and events. Bring article up to featured article standards. Verify: alum Cindy Herron Expand: Athletic history (90s basketball streak), College admissions improvements, history of violence - 50s & 60s riots / arson attack, Jerry Garcia quotes about Bal, Willie Brown & the Black Panthers. NPOV: JROTC section
Priority 4

All (potential) article editors should peruse Wikipedia:WikiProject Schools, Wikipedia:Manual of Style, Wikipedia:About, and especially Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not. Thanks Zedla 03:02, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mock Trial Section

The following IPs have consistently edited the mock trial section with weasel words in regards to a "controversial" mock trial season last year or "inevitably" losing: 69.85.188.175 and 69.85.188.91 Quixotic Rick 00:01, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

They appear to be 'good faith' but otherwise unseemly unsubstantiated edits, I left a welcome message for both IP's but if it recurs again I'd slowly start ratcheting up the warning levels (see WP:UWT) and pointing to specific guidelines/policies before asking for admin intervention. Zedla 00:18, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] GA Review

GA pass. I like this article, pretty good for a school with relatively few students. Good under [[WP:WIAGA}], but ensure non-notable information that people who are not associated with the area would not understand stays out of the article. Also, unless it's where it's at for a reason, the infobox should be moved ahead of the lead photograph. I'm also removing {{TalkHeader}} from this talk page per documentation for that template. PhoenixTwo 02:29, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Phoenix2, Thanks for the superquick GA review and for explaining the use of talkheader (I was wondering why it was removed on the initial "B" assessment). Zedla 05:06, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] To-Do List: Expansions

I'm a current student and can find anything in regards to academic resurgence to expand it seeing as it is on the to-do list. I was just wondering if there were any specifics that any regular editor and contributor of this page had in mind. Also, I'd like to let the regular contributors of this page know that I will be fixing up the JROTC section to meet NPOV. Quixotic Rick (talk) 09:19, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

I guess by regular you mean me ;) . It would be great if more could be said about the school academics before the 1990's. The nature of research by internet results in a bias towards events since the mid 90's. If you'd like to expand more on what has gone on recently, there has been discussion in the media about the effect of Williams v. California so that could be expanded. Just, please please please keep the wikipedia pillars on WP:Original Research, WP:Reliable Sources, and WP:Verifiability (aka it's not what you know is true, it's what you can prove is true) in mind. I've added a few other things to the list if anyone wants to take those up. – Zedla (talk) 06:25, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Of course, I mean you; I'll get to it. Thanks for all the work to this article. It's really improved from what it used to be. :) We've really made it incredible.

--Quixotic Rick (talk) 06:40, 17 March 2008 (UTC)