Talk:Arcata High School

Wikipedia policies about living people

Editors CAN NOT write about very critical information on living people without citing sources. Editors who see such information without sources are encouraged to delete it immediately. The reason is simple: it's unfair to the people who are criticized, attacked and possibly defamed. Therefore I deleted critical comments on the former principal and replaced a short section with a single sentence noting the change in principals. See WP:BIO for a better description of Wikipedia policy. The section I replaced certainly seemed to be striving for fairness, and (without looking into it) I don't doubt the sincerity of the editor(s) who wrote it, but it's a dangerous violation of policy. This does not preclude writing something critical about a living person, just cite the fact that some reliable source said it and keep in mind that it should be important information, generally encyclopedic and hurt the person being criticized as little as possible (one thing to think about is how that person's family would feel if they read it — that's not the only consideration, but it's an important consideration. Is what you're writing about important enough to override that hurt?). Noroton 16:11, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Arts Institute

I removed this section, which stated it was copied from the institute's web page with permission. The assertion of permission is not sufficient to allow copying; it's still a potential copyvio. In order to show permission, the copyright holder should 1) add to the website text explicitly licensing the website's content under the GFDL, or 2) send an email to the permissions address, from the organization's email account, explicitly granting permission. For full details, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission. Shimeru 00:57, 25 February 2007 (UTC)