User talk:MMSH987

Bethpage High School Masquer's Guild

Information about a school's extracurricular activities belongs on the article for the school. The Masquer's Guild should almost certainly not have its own article. Unless there's something extraordinary, like widespread national news coverage of the drama club, information about the club properly belongs on the school's article, and should not have its own. Let me know if you have any questions. --Hyperbole 21:07, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia policy is that a subject must be notable to have an article. If only a couple hundred people know about something, it's almost impossible that a good article will be written about it, because it won't be subject to enough informed peer review. High schools are generally considered notable; middle schools and elementary schools are usually not. Anything smaller than a high school, like a club or extracurricular activity of a high school, is almost never notable. We can take this to the larger Wikipedia community and have them discuss whether the Bethpage High School Masquer's Guild article should be deleted, but I can guarantee you in advance that the consensus would be to delete it. As to who I am, I'm a Wikipedian. We look at recent changes and random articles to help improve the quality of Wikipedia. --Hyperbole 21:31, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Fair enough. The article has been submitted to AfD, where the community will decide whether to keep or delete it. You're welcome to argue your case there. Go here: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bethpage High School Masquer's Guild --Hyperbole 22:08, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Semi-protecting Bethpage High School

What you're asking for is for Bethpage High School to be semi-protected. You should read Wikipedia:Semi-protection policy. You can request semi-protection at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection, but I consider it unlikely that the request will be granted in this case; the policy makes it clear that semi-protection should not be used "as a preemptive measure against vandalism before any vandalism has occurred." In a nutshell, there are probably students and alumni who want to make constructive edits to the page, and we don't want to block them as potential vandals. Unfortunately, high school articles undergo a lot of vandalism, and the only real way to deal with that is to add them to your watchlist and check in from time to time to make sure they haven't been vandalized. I personally have several high schools from my area on my watchlist so I can edit out garbage like "McQueen sucks! Kate was here!" --Hyperbole 19:28, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

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