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Lubbock High School was one of the good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

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Date	Process	Result
February 13, 2006	Peer review	Reviewed
May 26, 2006	Good article nominee	Listed
June 9, 2009	Good article reassessment	Delisted

Current status: Delisted good article

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	Reasoning for assessment: Old for US Public, well written and includes referenced information of encyclopedic value. Adam McCormick 20:19, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Meadors[edit]

Definition of alumni: http://www.answers.com/alumni&r=67

Issue: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Myleslong#Tampering_With_Lubbock_High.27s_Article

This is what school homepages are for, not Wikipedia. Removed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nnp (talk • contribs)

GA Promotion[edit]

I have recently reviewed this article & found that it meets the criterion for being a good article. So I have promoted it to GA status. My congratulations to all the contributors for doing a fine job.

Cheers

Srik e it^{(talk ¦ ✉)} 14:39, 27 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Couple of quibbles[edit]

I am really impressed by this article, one of the best schools articles I have seen, and hope that somebody makes the press for this to reach featured status soon.

What's impressed me most is the structure of the article and the quality of the referencing. The article consists of a series of well-structured factual claims about the school, and these facts largely can be backed up completely by identical factual claims in the references.

My only quibbles with the article are:

A reference should be found for the school's catchment area (specifically the claim "The school primarily serves students from the central and eastern parts of Lubbock, but the school's LEAP program serves students from all over the city." (That should, incidentally, be explored in more depth elsewhere, as the WP:LEAD is meant to summarize information from further below in the article)
You really need to reference the musical links - it shouldn't be too hard to find a source.
The Academic Decathlon section is underreferenced - the reference only confirms the court challenge. It would probably be a good idea to remove personal details (individual names) from this section too.

Many thanks, TheGrappler 14:13, 14 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the comments. I removed the individuals' names from that section; I agree that it is probably best for them to be left out. As for your other comments, I will work on addressing them in the near future. Thanks again for the comments. Ultimately achieving FA status is my goal for this article; it's good to know that you think it's moving toward that. --Myles Long 18:12, 14 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

As of next year there will be no more friday classes, but school will still get out at 12:35.

GA comment[edit]

For the article to maintain its GA status, the copyrighted images need detailed fair use rationales. Look to other passed GA/FAs for examples. Let me know on my talk page if you have any questions. --Nehrams2020 06:48, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

A few questions[edit]

This article does not seem to include anywhere any information about the ages of the children who attend the school. Normally such information is included in the infoboxes. Do children move to this school at age 11 or at age 14? When do they leave the school? The statement about the mascot is also very puzzling to non-Americans. What is a Westerner? I think you need to explain. Dahliarose 14:16, 12 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I will add information about the grade-levels/ages of students. However, even though I attended the school, I have no idea what a Westerner is. As far as I know, it's never been made clear. --Myles Long 16:38, 12 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the additions. I've changed the links as there are pages for all the various grades. The secondary education in the US article is not very helpful as it doesn't mention ages, and all these grade numbers are meaningless to anyone outside the US. It seems very odd having a mascot when no one knows what it's supposed to be. Is there perhaps a picture of the mascot somewhere? Dahliarose 17:36, 12 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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GA Reassessment[edit]

This discussion is transcluded from Talk:Lubbock High School/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the reassessment.

Hello. I am doing a reassessment of this article for GA Sweeps. Here are some issues I see:

A good deal of the information is unsourced. This will have to be fixed.
Endashes belong between date ranges. See MOS:DASH.
Inline references need to be in numerical order within the prose.
The alumni is entirely unsourced.
More than half the refs are primary. Are there any other sources that can be used, as well?

I'll give the editors of the article a week to fix this first set of problems, before giving some more specific and detailed suggestions. Otherwise, the article will be delisted. Thanks. Nikki♥311 21:10, 2 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I am delisting the article due to lack of improvement. Nikki♥311 03:20, 9 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The Westerner is essentialy a cowboy and kids ages 14-19 usually attend there. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.216.47.223 (talk) 03:07, 2 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Academics[edit]

Does anyone have any info on the school's results in state competitions? Pes2009ap (talk) 05:16, 6 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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