Talk:Southwood Secondary School

Notable Alumni

A user keeps adding "Jamal Aburaneh" as Notable Alumni, claiming that he is an actor on Little Mosque on the Prairie. This fact is not true and should be reverted immediately, as the user in question has been blocked three times for vandalism under the IP 74.109.244.5, and once under an account name very similar to my own. MelicansMatkin 06:06, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

A user (MelicansMatkin) thinks that Paul Werstine is not notable enough to be mentioned in this article. To say that a world renowned Shakespearian scholar (as mentioned in one of at least four citations), is not notable, while including some NASCAR-driving nobody with only one citation, is laughable to say the least. The fact that MelicansMatkin has a higher regard for NASCAR than he does Shakespeare, genuinely worries me about his ability to properly make edits in Wikipedia. Wendel67 08:11, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

That is because no source for this scholar was provided beyond saying that he was a former student of Southwood. No indication of his successful career was provided. Also, if you are going to add references, please make sure that they lead to reliable references - Amazon.ca is not reliable, and neither is a dead link. MelicansMatkin 23:17, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

References

When adding people to Notable Alumni, please provide a reference. MelicansMatkin 20:01, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

History section revamp

"the school now has one of the smallest number of students in the county" not something for an opening sentence- rephrased and moved to later on. changed focus to student academic achievements -cited, not just that there's a small student population.

storage facility comments: why should they be kept on here? no basis for that claim, seems to be hearsay.

added accomplishments in literacy testing- above province and region, worth noting alongside "small population"

"Few Muslim, South American, and Asian students attend." this goes without saying if you say most students are caucasian. why these three anyway, 1 religion and 2 continents, what about Africa, Oceania, Buddhists, and Taoism: there's not many of those from southwood either. it's unnecessary.

southwood's unique character, quote from region: there's more than being just "caucasian"

"undersized school" negative connotation: that was a perception by board staff and the trustees voted against that to keep southwood open- cited board decision Hellojoe2 01:59, 11 April 2007 (UTC)