Talk:The Hockaday School
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Do you have a bio for Lindsley? It doesn't seem enough to just be a descendent of a president.
- I agree. — Laura Scudder | Talk 16:44, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
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- I removed her again. Unlike the Bush twins, she does not recieve any significant amount of media attention, and there's no claim to her having done something notable aside from be born a Roosevelt. — Laura Scudder ☎ 18:03, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Naming
So, the article was recently moved to Hockaday School. I moved it back as the official name includes the article, and it seems to me that those associated with the school exclusively use "The Hockaday School" when not shortening all the way to "Hockaday". That combined with these google searches [1] [2], which show 56.5k uses of "The Hockaday School" and probably 19.7k uses of "Hockaday School" by itself, make using the article seem to fit Wikipedia:Naming conventions to me.
One test it fails is consistent capitalization of the article when used in a sentence, but I still feel like official name + never used without article by those in the know = use article in the title. But if people here agree it belongs at Hockaday School, I'll happily move it back. — Laura Scudder ☎ 20:08, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Recent edits
I predate the Academic Research Center, so, while I suspect that the common name is ARC rather than LLARC, I don't know that. I do know that unless things have drastically changed, the mascot is the Killer Daisy, and it seems pretty unique and noteworthy to me. I also rather think that the "reputation for feminism" is a positive thing, although hard to verify. So far as the laptops are concerned, they're already discussed in the academics section, and so don't really belong in the description of the Middle and Upper School building. I also don't know that this aritcle needs to serve as a vehicle for advertising Smartboard ™ technology, whatever that is.
I am, however, happy to discuss all of these points in the hopes of reaching some sort of compromise text. — Laura Scudder ☎ 18:29, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
- Under the theory that our academic excellence is more important than the buildings that happens in, I've trimmed the Campus Highlights significantly, while still trying to retain the key facts of interest to prospectives. I also moved the section below Academics, although I had a hard time deciding where it belonged. Oh well. — Laura Scudder ☎ 17:21, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Is This An Advertisement?
This article seems to be an advertisement for The Hockaday School. At least once is the school referred to as 'our'. I hope some of the School owners aren't just writing out their website on this article.
ACAbrahams 18:55, 16 January 2007 (UTC)Alix
- The article so far has been mostly written by alumnae and students, although there was a spate of edits by someone working for Hockaday that weren't as encyclopedic as they could've been. Unfortunately, articles on schools tend to swell with minutiae and get hard to keep track of. Thanks for pointing out the "our", I hadn't caught that. — Laura Scudder ☎ 15:33, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
No problem. Thanks for noticing my addition to the talk page.86.134.194.30 14:02, 3 February 2007 (UTC)Alix
