LakeshoreLancer2005

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re: edits to Lakeshore High School

Greetings LL2005!

First, let me be the first to welcome you to editing here at Wikipedia. I do hope you get some enjoyment out of contributing to this international collaborative effort.

Second, I just reverted the edits that you made to this article, and wanted to take a moment and explain why.

Articles about schools below the university level are looked over by the Wikipedia Schools Project. This is a collective of editors (one of many many more) who try and gather a general consensus on how articles should be formatted, and what should and should not be included. That is not to say that these project guidelines are written in stone, but they do represent a general consensus of editors who have expressed their thoughts.

Generally speaking, alumni and staff are not listed (except for the principals) unless the person meets Wikipedia's standard of notability for people. That means that people are not listed in school articles unless that person is the subject of their own Wikipedia article, or are eligible for an article that has yet to be written. The people whom you are inserting into the article may certainly meet the notability of the school, or of the university they attended, but do not appear to meet the notability standards for Wikipedia. For that reason, they have been deleted. For more information, you can read here and here.

Best of luck on your editing here! LonelyBeacon (talk) 00:39, 29 May 2010 (UTC)

The people I RE-inserted (I am not the original author) after Hairhorn's overzealous cleaning do indeed meet the notability standards for Wikipedia. I have put them back with additional sources cited. LakeshoreLancer2005 (talk) 23:21, 31 May 2010 (UTC)