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well done one of the best school stages in the state ...tell us a bit more ... alumni.... refs and pics. Be neutral! welcome Victuallers 22:57, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
Do you have a reference for saying that Albuquerque Academy has the top SAT scores in the southwest?
Removed obsolete information, added a few statistics, inserted section on Charger/Sartan rivalry. Vontafeijos 05:24, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
We should add some information about student life, such as: hwo the school offers many student activities, etc. Also, we should clean up the table with the correct facts (I couldn't find them when I made it earlier.)
The campus is only 312 acres, right?
Also, a cool idea: should we display the sweet human 50? I think it would be really cool and also would show the campus atmosphere and setting. P-unit 06:32, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
Please keep in mind that the Rivalry section should not become overloaded with examples of what St. Pius High School has done to Albuquerque Academy or vice versa. I don't think that's a problem now, but any more examples and that's exactly what could happen. Vontafeijos 02:38, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
From Wikipedia's policy page on Verifiability
The burden of evidence lies with the editor who has made the edit. Editors should therefore provide references. Any edit lacking a source may be removed. If you doubt the truthfulness of an unsourced statement, remove it to the talk page. Otherwise, just request a source.
I'm not going to remove every unsourced statement on AA's page, but they DO need to be cited to conform to Wikipedia policy. Please leave the citation flags in so people know what needs a citation. It would be even more constructive to find sources for these claims.
Thanks.
Many references have been provided and this article has certainly benefited from it. However, there are some residual issues, and we should try and fix them as best as possible.
From Guidelines of Schools:
References — Provide verifiable sources of information about the school, that are independent of the school itself. This may include newspaper and magazine articles on the school. For private schools, an accreditation body or government source should be provided to show the organization is a legitimate school. An article should not rely solely on what its subject has to say about itself (as with any article in Wikipedia). If a resource is online (which is ideal) consider that potential it will go offline (newspaper's often allow free reading only for recent stories) and provide sufficient information that the story could still be found (author, publication, full article title, date, etc).
The only fact with a fully compliant citation is the St. Pius incident. Every other citation is from AA itself, or is not fully and properly transcribed.
-- Ryan Utt 22:20, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
Also, all citations include every piece of information available. If things like the exact date of publication or the author cannot be found, then they obviously cannot be included. Any style book will tell you that. This is the case for the Associated Press article on the St. Pius razor incident and the 2005 Tribune Lighthouse Award Winners publication. Those are considered to be correct citations since all the information isn't available. - Vontafeijos 06:57, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
Giving a full citation means that ... readers will know how to track down the original article.
The link to the New Mexico Department of Education was broken. Guidelines for Schools says "an accreditation body or government source should be provided to show the organization is a legitimate school" so it's critical that a new citation be found for at least one of the accrediation bodies. AA obviously is a legitimate school so this shouldn't be too hard, but I don't know much about private schools so I wouldn't know where to look. -- Ryan Utt 08:06, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
The following claims are chronically uncited and are being move here to the talk page :
Sale of the land over the years and careful management of the proceeds created a $200 million endowment which since then has grown, placing the Albuquerque Academy among the highest endowed secondary schools in the United States
The student population of the Academy ranks among the most diverse for independent schools throughout the country
Albuquerque Academy prides itself on its personal attention to its students with an 8:1 student/teacher ratio, but simply in terms of such tangibles as facilities and average SAT score, the school now ranks alongside such schools as St. Mark's School of Texas in Dallas and the Kinkaid School in Houston.
The following reference is from a student newspaper and is not a credible source. It is being removed.
Nelson, Robby (September 2002). "'X' Marks the spot: a rivalry since 1954". The Albuquerque Academy Advocate.
The following reference is incomplete and is being moved here to the talk page until a full and complete citation can be given:
High School Journalism Lighthouse Award Winners. 2005.
-- Ryan Utt 07:16, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
Unfourtunately, you do not realize that any newspaper except for tablods are considered respectable sources for Wikipedia. 207.225.62.126 22:22, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
I'm doubting the notability of some of these so-called "notable alumni." In particular:
As it stands, none of these entries sufficiently explain why the subject is notable. Credentials like "World Bank Consultant," "programmer and Wall Street broker," or "controversial Lobo football writer" do not constitute notability. If these people are to remain in the list, better evidence of notability needs to be provided.
Camerafiend 02:06, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
I agree on many of these; I would give Chainey Umphrey the benefit of the doubt. I also added Brian Conrey, who is notable as the founding director of a significant institute. I'll go ahead and remove the others. -- Spireguy 23:27, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
Re: the latest two additions ( Cody Toppert and Chad Toppert), I would say that additions to this list should be limited to persons who are clearly notable, preferably already having Wikipedia articles about them. So I would delete Chad Toppert. Chainey Umphrey is also dubious, since he doesn't have an article either. So maybe it's time to delete his entry too. Comments? -- Spireguy ( talk) 04:03, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
Since there was no objection to the above proposal, I'm going to remove all of the entries under "Notable alumni" and "Notable current and former faculty" that don't have Wikipedia articles. I've copied the deleted material below in case we decide to put one or more of these entries back in.
Objections? Comments? -- Spireguy ( talk) 16:36, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
Andrew is also the Curator of Art at the Albuquerque Museum, FYI —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.244.105.127 ( talk) 20:37, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
Umphrey is notable. Oly participation is enough for an article. And he is well known in his sport. Sort of a massive talent who never quite delivered (but still got to the Olys). TCO ( talk) 01:17, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
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I mainly focused on the history section, trying to make it more readable, tightening it up, and correcting some information. (E.g. I don't think the BLM ever had any role in the land swap, and the CABQ source confirms that it was in fact the Forest Service.) I also did some random cleanup on other sections, including the Bear Canyon subsection. Hope the edits are an improvement. Overall the article still needs more verifiable, independent citations, as mentioned by various folks above; that's a longer-term project. However for some noncontroversial facts I did cite the school as a source, as an interim measure. -- Spireguy 23:20, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
Hello 71.222.163.43---regarding the recent edits to the Simms Library subsection:
I removed the following:
That material is now outdated since Diversity Day is being reconfigured as multiple shorter segments throughout the year. -- Spireguy ( talk) 14:42, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
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