Talk:Riverside Military Academy

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Draft Review

Hi big.macncheese,

You have a pretty solid article here, but I would love to see more history about the academy itself. For instance: who was the founder of this academy? When was it founded? Did it have any memorable contributes to WW1 or WW2? Stuff like that.

Otherwise this is a solid article so far, keep up the good work!

--EKays3838

Alumni

@John from Idegon: regarding your revert of my edits:

• I deleted "Kevin J Neal Curenntly Holds title for worlds strongest man." This was on two grounds. Firstly there is no article. Secondly it is unsourced, and a Google search finds no evidence of such a person holding such a title. theworldsstrongestman.com returns nothing about him. Indeed, World's Strongest Man says the title holder is Martins Licis.
• I deleted "Marco Antonio Huby Canales, Born in Honduras and still attending Riverside, he started his first day on January of 2018." This appears to be a non-notable current student. There's no such article. The claim is unsourced. It looks to me like a boy wanting to get his name in the encyclopedia.
• I re-added Nizar Zakka. This article exists and is about a notable individual. The listing is sourced from the New York Times, and while the NYT source does not mention Riverside, there are reliable sources in the Zakka article that do: [1]

On this basis can my edit be reinstated? Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 08:38, 7 February 2020 (UTC)

If a person has an article and there are reliable independent sources that verify attendance, they can be on a notable alumni list. If not, not. John from Idegon (talk) 18:08, 7 February 2020 (UTC)

@John from Idegon: what's going on here? I re-implemented my edit as per above only for you to revert it again? What happened to WP:BRD? If you don't like the reference, there are plenty more to pick from: New York Times Washington Post Al Jazeera The Guardian Associated Press Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 20:08, 7 February 2020 (UTC)

• Just follow instructions. I clearly stated above you needed reliable independent sources, and you responded by wasting both our time by adding it back without an independent source. John from Idegon (talk) 20:41, 7 February 2020 (UTC)

@John from Idegon: Of all the alumni on the list, we're debating one of the only three that have any references at all? This person has been on that list since 2015, why the fuss over his inclusion now? And your revert re-added two people with no article and no citation... We are on the same side here. I was just, and am just trying to revert the vandalism that has taken place since 5 February. Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 20:49, 7 February 2020 (UTC)

Perhaps if you didn't assume to know why others are doing things, you'd have fewer problems. What I am doing has nothing whatsoever to do with vandalism. John from Idegon (talk) 21:24, 7 February 2020 (UTC)

Hi, John from Idegon. Forgive me for intervening - this page is only on my watch list as I did revert an earlier edit whilst monitoring Special:RecentChanges. I think there may be some mistake here, as I've looked at what Curb Safe Charmer is trying to do, and I'm sure they're correct in what they're saying (i.e.: add in Nizar Zakka as an alumnus). It's very easy to revert one edit, only to find one has accidentally reinserted unwanted content, which I think you've managed to do here. I'm sure all three of us would agree the two redlinked names need to be deleted (and I'll do that in just a moment). But Curb Safe Charmer is, quite justifiably, trying to add an existing notable alumnus based on WP:RS, which I have checked out and feel is quite valid to do so. If an institution states (see here that someone notable is an alumnus, I see no reason to doubt it, nor to add them. (Riverside Academy is also mentioned in the article about Nizar Zakka.) So would you mind taking another quick look and see if you've made an innocent misunderstanding here, please? I know I've jumped on people from time to time, only to find I misread the situation, though it's never nice for the recipient of anyone's misplaced ire. I'm confident we're all of us trying to edit in good faith here. Thanks, Nick Moyes (talk) 23:54, 7 February 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 11 March 2020

I am a riverside alumni that works at RMA and would like to help edit this article Lilsxcar (talk) 13:27, 11 March 2020 (UTC)

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