# Does Wikipedia have an article on your high school? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 4, 2006, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-wikipedia-have-an-article-on-your-high-school/347009 "2006-03-04T03:49:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![parthenokinesis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/cc9497/32.png) [@parthenokinesis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/parthenokinesis)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2006, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-wikipedia-have-an-article-on-your-high-school/347009/101 "2006-03-06T23:02:44Z")
> [@Eleusis](#): > > Whadayanno? A [National Blue Ribbon](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Township_High_School) school. > > :wally Go Blue Devils! ---
**Author:** ![mrald](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3da27b/32.png) [@mrald](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrald)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2006, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-wikipedia-have-an-article-on-your-high-school/347009/102 "2006-03-06T23:14:14Z")
NO, but it is on a list. Guess nobody cares about Arkansas High Schools. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![mrald](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3da27b/32.png) [@mrald](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrald)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2006, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-wikipedia-have-an-article-on-your-high-school/347009/103 "2006-03-06T23:15:37Z")
Oh oh [The town is here though!](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_View%2C_Arkansas#Education) ---
**Author:** ![Airblairxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Airblairxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airblairxxx)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2006, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-wikipedia-have-an-article-on-your-high-school/347009/104 "2006-03-06T23:52:18Z")
> [@robardin](#): > > …and does anybody want to predict how many posts will go by before two classmates from the same school bump into each other? Does it count if I grew up across the street from **runner pat’s** high school and would have gone there if it hadn’t been closed 3 years before I started high school? Instead, I ended up [here,](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunn_High) across town. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-wikipedia-have-an-article-on-your-high-school/347009/105 "2006-03-07T01:14:14Z")
Yes, surprisingly enough, seeing it’s public and in a smallish city. ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-wikipedia-have-an-article-on-your-high-school/347009/106 "2006-03-07T01:31:37Z")
I went to two different high schools, only one of which is in Wikipedia: > **[Arlington High School (New York)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlington_High_School_(LaGrange,_New_York))** > > Arlington High School is a public high school in the Arlington Central School District located in Lagrange, New York, United States, on Route 55. > The school, although not the current building, has its origins in the early years of the Arlington Union Free School District Number 7, the district's name from 1900 to 1961. When the district was formed, there were only two school buildings. In 1900, only one year of high school work was offered. In 1922, it was expanded to two years; and in 1924, t... Interestingly the snooty supposedly highly regarded high school Mrs. Lagomorph went to isn’t there either. ---
**Author:** ![TJdude825](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@TJdude825](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TJdude825)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-wikipedia-have-an-article-on-your-high-school/347009/107 "2006-03-07T06:40:25Z")
May I suggest that when linking, you put [Mira Costa High School](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mira_Costa_High_School) rather than just [Yes](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mira_Costa_High_School) to make it easier for people to look through the thread for others who went to their same school. I was looking up the school address one time, and being too lazy to get through the school’s official (terribly designed) website, I just googled it, and this came up second on the list. I was like “What? We have a Wikipedia entry?!” Then I realized it wasn’t really so surprising - why shouldn’t we? Every other person or thing in the world seems to have one. It’s a pretty good article, I guess, considering it appears to be the work of a couple of students. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-wikipedia-have-an-article-on-your-high-school/347009/108 "2006-03-07T14:17:49Z")
[Just a stub](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beechen_Cliff_School), but it’s there all right. The list of alumni has one notable omission though - Tony Spreadbury, one of the world’s top rugby referees (he did one of the quarter-finals at the last World Cup). I remember him when he was a boy soprano, and not a bad one at that. ---
**Author:** ![Peppermynthe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Peppermynthe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peppermynthe)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-wikipedia-have-an-article-on-your-high-school/347009/109 "2006-03-07T17:19:44Z")
Check it out, I went to the highschool [Vanilla Ice](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.L._Turner_High_School) went to. Now if that isn’t something to be proud of, I don’t know what is… :smack: ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-wikipedia-have-an-article-on-your-high-school/347009/110 "2006-03-08T01:00:50Z")
No. I went to Butler High School in Butler, NJ. They have an article for Butler High School…but it’s in Butler, PA ---
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-wikipedia-have-an-article-on-your-high-school/347009/111 "2006-03-08T02:00:14Z")
> [@DaphneBlack](#): > > Yes, [ETHS](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evanston_Township_High_School). You’re joking! That’s my school, too! One of these days I will figure out how to edit Wikipedia entries; it annoys me that they list John Cusack, who I always thought was a pompous ass, but not [the MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant recipient](http://www.dna.caltech.edu/~winfree/) who was part of my extended circle of friends. OK, I know we had a strong arts program, but the math team kicked butt! ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-wikipedia-have-an-article-on-your-high-school/347009/112 "2006-03-08T02:04:32Z")
> [@Eva Luna](#): > > One of these days I will figure out how to edit Wikipedia entries [This](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Introduction) might be of interest to you. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-wikipedia-have-an-article-on-your-high-school/347009.md?page=5)