Talk:Stuyvesant High School

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correctness stance. It's equally unfortunate that there are people in this world who don't realize that "All animals are created equal, but some animals are more equal than others." Tsk, tsk. These same people think nothing of crossing the street when they don't like "the looks" of the crowd approaching them, despite the obvious fact that "the looks" are clearly racially motivated. Alack, these people will grow up one day.

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to clearly-identified issues in a verifiable fashion. FAR also avoids author-ownership and criticism-ownership issues - the discussion tends to be tightly focused and and rancor isn't welcome. If the end result is that the article can't be an FA anymore, well, that's how the cookie crumbles, we're all here to make WP great. But I doubt that's the state this article is headed for - it starts from a pretty good place.

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This is a featured article, but these tags would never allow the article to even pass GAR, let alone FAR. I don't oppose the addition of tags, but it's a problem if you claim both that you want this to remain a featured article, and in the next edit, add ten tags to the articles. It could be that the

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So you should just list the main things that need to be copyedited. I have gone through the article and done a first round of edits already. If there's a specific phrase or phrases you have problems with, you can just edit it. There is one thing we agree on, though: there are a lot of problems in the

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can be a scary place for folks who have helped build an article into an FA, but this particular article benefited greatly when it went there in 2008 and 2012. It might actually be time for another visit. Among other things, FAR requires criticism to be actionable, allowing the community to respond

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with the edit summary "another disruptive tag because it is cited by the reference right after it" despite the fact that the reference after it did not apply to this sentence and the fact that I was the one who just added that reference so I know full well what is in it. When I pointed that out, you

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I see several problems with this article: there are several tags, several very short paragraphs; dubious lists ("Other publications" and "summary of floors"); unsourced segments ("SING!"); and URLs within the article text ("In popular culture"). All of this should be addressed if the article is to

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I'm not sure I agree. In my day (1970s), he was referred to as "Pegleg Pete", the football team was called the Peglegs, and there was a huge portrait of him on the main staircase to the second floor of the 15th St. building. As we learned when that building was researched for landmark status, the

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There's no way "rizzler" is supposed to be there but I don't know enough about this school to know if that profession should be changed or if the person should be removed from the article. I just searched "rizzler" in Knowledge (XXG) and this article came up. Can someone who knows more about this

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live in NYC) could no longer compete with schools that draw from upper-middle-class Jewish/Chinese/Indian neighborhoods. I resent it bitterly when folks who consider themselves "editors" freewheelingly delete such critically important material because they find it inconvenient from the political

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So there's realistically two options here: resolve the tags and get rid of the material that can't be sourced, or bring this to FAR where the issues can gain more review. I don't know how you can have a Featured Article with tags on it, but if you say you can resolve all these tags, be my guest.

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of tags which didn't seem to be resolved. To me, this is problematic as the article will never pass a review in this state. It would have been better if you brought up these issues beforehand, rather than waiting for me to remove your tags and then nitpicking every single one of my removals. (Of

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What do these incidents have in common? When a tag is added to this article, your immediate response in each instance has been to see to it that the tag is removed, irrespective of whether the problem at hand was actually addressed. I have been attempting to make improvements to this article and

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Yup: Keep it encyclopedic. When you're writing, ask yourself whether someone who was never associated with the school would find it to be valuable information five years from now. If you can't say "Yes,", it's probably too marginal to be in the article. Personally, I'm not convinced the topic

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I don't know that it would have been worthwhile to specify every detail that required copy editing as issues abounded throughout the article, which I know you can see from the copy-editing work that both you and I have done throughout the article in the past day. (With all due respect, even

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on the basis that they are "obviously not actionable". The same day, you went on to double the length the 99-word lead (in a 90+ KB article) to 199 words and, along with me, engaged in fairly serious copy editing throughout the article, showing that you were aware that both tags were most

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Pinging editors who were involved with the FAC process and/or significant article contributors who have been active on Knowledge (XXG) recently. There is also a problem with sourcing issues, which I am trying to fix, but this request for copyediting is going to take some time.

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Along with the title of the work, the author (if applicable) is the most important part of a citation. It indicates from whom one is getting the ideas referenced in the article. So I fail to see how it is "not needed". Moreover, working from your invented standard, why was

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Okay, my quote frame didn't work. What I was trying to quote was this: "Notable alumni include former United States Attorney General Eric Holder, physicists Brian Greene and Lisa Randall, economist Thomas Sowell, mathematician Paul Cohen, rizzler Janka Wilczysnki..."

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I added (only subsequently to find it deleted) the fact that Stuy was the nation's top high school for some 70 years—that is, until magnet schools proliferated and the demographics of New York City went straight into the toilet and Stuy (to attend which one

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that it isn't obvious what any of us might think is bad in those 6000 words. Actionable criticism is a good thing. The two FARs that this article went through and the three FA nominations all produced good criticism and improved the article.

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Which tells us that the tags were not, in fact, removed "Because the entire paragraph was removed." Rather, the removal of the paragraph was a later decision. So if the number of tags was the concern, why were they not replaced with

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section could use some modest restructuring after that, but I don't think it's a creative writing project so much as a small amount of heading and text movement. I would be willing to undertake both some time in January.

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I'm sorry, but I don't see any reference to a three-hour exam in the 115-page document you cited. Could you include a page number? The closest thing I saw was a two-and-a-half-hour exam being referenced on p. 18.

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with the edit summary "removed tags that are obviously not actionable". Oddly, the same editor immediately proceeded expand the size of the lead by at least 50% with the edit summary "remove more tags per

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For some bizarre reason, most of Manhattan's neighborhoods in the map showing Stuy's location are given in Czech or a similar language. Is this vandalism, or is it just some weird bug that's cropped up?

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The article's structure is very sloppy, with loads of very short paragraphs and standalone sentences. A major copy edit is needed. (For instance, nearly every sentence in "History" begins with "In …".)

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Notable alumni include former United States Attorney General Eric Holder, physicists Brian Greene and Lisa Randall, economist Thomas Sowell, mathematician Paul Cohen, rizzler Janka Wilczysnki

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I was working to fix the problems even despite your tagging spree. But despite your portrayal of my edits as all-unexplained tag removals, there are several concerns I have about these tags:

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with the edit summary "trim, reorganize". I'm not sure how a reference to a newspaper article that includes neither the author's name nor the year of publication constitutes a full citation.

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removed the phrase altogether. Having asked twice already, I have yet to hear back as to how the tag was "disruptive" or to what other "disruptive tag" your edit summary was referring.

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I'm not sure what Stuy's mascot is, but calling a historical figure (Peter Stuyvesant) the school's mascot is rather comical. Maybe the field just doesn't belong in the infobox.

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That works for me. I don't know how best to merge these sections, especially since "Mnemonics" and "Transportation" fit best in a dedicated subsection about the facility itself.

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tags with the edit summary "nope". Why would one remove the tags without removing the paragraph itself? And I'm not clear on what "nope" is referring to in this context.

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in the lead with the edit summary "copyedit history section; also remove unsourced". And despite the above back-and-forth, I still don't believe that it's sourced.

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from the school colours in the infobox despite them not being referenced in the body of the article. It wasn't until later that you decided to comment them out.

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I note that Hunter College HS has a problem of lack of student diversity. (While students do expensive prep classes to get in.) Does SHS have the same problem?

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with the edit summary "another disruptive tag because it is cited by the reference right after it". Firstly, to what other "disruptive tag" are you referring,

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from beside a newspaper citation that contained neither the name of the article's author nor the year of publication with the edit summary "trim, reorganize".

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Another editor also raised concern that some of the text seems promotional. I tagged at least one section ("strength in areas such as math and science").

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There's no administration/governance section, which is a comprehensiveness issue. I'd like to see information on things like the school's annual budget.

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https://web.archive.org/web/20170202004844/https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20110908/downtown/stuyvesant-high-school-students-sick-10-years-after-911

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https://web.archive.org/web/20101224194912/http://stuyspectator.com/2009/02/09/eric-holder-stuy-grad-basketball-player-and-the-new-attorney-general/

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Each November, about 30,000 eighth- and ninth-grade students take the three-hour test for admittance to eight of the nine specialized high schools.

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Each November, about 30,000 eighth- and ninth-grade students take the three-hour test for admittance to eight of the nine specialized high schools.

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Each November, about 30,000 eighth- and ninth-grade students take the three-hour test for admittance to eight of the nine specialized high schools.

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It reads "Prior to 1999, Stuyvesant did not accept female students." I was in the school prior to 1999 and there were plenty of female students.

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It contains twelve sections: news, features, op-ed, arts & entertainment, sports, photography, art, layout, copy, business, humor, and web.

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It contains twelve sections: news, features, op-ed, arts & entertainment, sports, photography, art, layout, copy, business, humor, and web.

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you unaware of the particular issues requiring copy editing, that does not make the tag "obviously not actionable". And I still fail to see how

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For the edit summary I looked at the tags and thought, "nope, these tags are too closely spaced and they could be considered tag bombing". And

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On other articles, I've seen drive-by tags that end up never being fixed. When I saw your edits of the article on my watchlist, I noticed a

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Looking at it again, it seems you did include a page number. As I'm certain there's no reference to an exam on p. 5, I'll indicate as such.

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to do so, though it is not a policy. Leaving it in with no explanation is not actionable because it is unclear what needs to be copyedited.

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In any case, we generally do not mention temporary closures of a few weeks or months, similar to how we treat summertime school closures.

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The first source is the op-ed itself, which is a primary source and needs a reliable secondary or tertiary source to back it up, per our

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I added the date. An author is not necessary if a page number, date, issue, and title are provided. Sure it's useful but not needed.

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The racial demographics are distinct enough compared to the school's region that they probably warrant a mention in the lede.

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does not exempt material in the lead from requiring a reference where information is not referenced elsewhere in the article.

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The "In the media" section is a single sentence and should probably be merged into the reputation section or somewhere else.

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That doesn't explain how the tag was "disruptive" or to what other "disruptive tag" your edit summary was referring.

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Stuyvesant offers clubs, publications, teams and other opportunities under a system similar to that of many colleges.

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isn't actionable. Neither, for that matter, is asserting that the article is full of problems. This article was in

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Stress Cheating Rumored opposition to current principal Teitel Criticism of Teachers Oversized classes (35 I think)

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I think I'll get started on an arson section. I'll probably start research tomorrow. Anyone have any suggestions?

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was removed without explanation, I have restored it as "this request for copyediting is going to take some time."

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I looked at the tags and said "nope, these tags are too closely spaced and they could be considered tag bombing".

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indicate where further improvements need to be made in order that the article might come closer to meeting the

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https://web.archive.org/web/20160505033840/http://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/national-rankings

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There is a lot of positive info on Stuy on the page, however the school has its downsides too. To name a few:

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of the class of 1960 made a gift worth $ 1,000,000 to found the Dr. Robert Ira Lewy M.D. Multimedia Center.

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Editors are invited to address the issues in order to prevent this article from being delisted from FA.

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https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20110908/downtown/stuyvesant-high-school-students-sick-10-years-after-911

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The large number of clubs at the school is due to Stuyvesant's relatively free policy of "student rule".

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Leaving it in with no explanation is not actionable because it is unclear what needs to be copyedited.

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and fixed. But your attitude toward FAR makes it seem like an unconstructive process, which it's not.

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Most clubs are entirely student-run, requiring only a faculty advisor to maintain their existence.

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These are easy fixes. Like the SHSAT problem, which I just fixed by finding an updated handbook.

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That's fine with me. I assumed that it had already been copyedited. But if you are going to add

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in the lead with the edit summary "copyedit history section; also remove unsourced". Despite

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sources that mention the op-ed and the closure, but they do not say that the op-ed is the

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The second source, that the schools were closed, does not mention the op-ed at all. There

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with such information about Stuyvesant, it could be a worthy contribution to this article

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Regarding the previous two bullet points: No, the only thing that edit did was remove

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Dubious lists ("Other publications" and "summary of floors") that are also unsourced.

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in the lead with the edit summary "copyedit history section; also remove unsourced"

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A sentence or two about the pandemic is probably warranted in the history section.

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Just to name a few. I think there should be some criticism of stuy added on there.

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Thank you for alerting me to that. It was an unnecessary detail so I removed it.

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seems undue, given that it seems the less significant publication compared to

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was "obviously not actionable", considering you immediately took action.) As

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I am aware that you did ultimately. Nowhere has it been suggested otherwise.

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info is unencyclopedic and doesn't need tags at all, but rather, removal.

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was applied to the ARTISTA section, you – rightly – deleted the section.

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And that doesn't even include the other cases discussed in this thread.

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There are some phrases that might also be construed as promotional. --

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for the closure. However, this is what the paragraph was implying.

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I don't see any reference to the length of the exam in the body.

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These are claims that can be made of any school, are they not?

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There's a reason why I wanted to send this to Featured Article

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the paragraph about the coronavirus closure. As this is a

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