This page has been started by the web design students at Seymour High School. You can visit our blog at shsweb.blogspot.com. We are trying to make the page within our class setting. We keep getting highjacked as the kids are making their changes. We know the page isnt perfect yet, but its part of the learning process we hope to use in class. Hopefully we will learn the protocal quicker so we can get some pages up.

Please keep in mind that nobody is "hijacking" anything. I have been using Wikipedia for quite some time, and have no vendetta against this article or anyone who contributes to it. It's great that you are helping develop this article, but please remember that Wikipedia is a community based Wiki, and not your personal class project. Please see my remartks below regarding learning Wikipedia. Don't be offended when I or any other user edits content - it is just the way Wikipedia works. The system works quite well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents/Getting_started

- Plasticbadge 21:16, 24 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia isn't a classroom

I'm sorry, but Wikipedia has specific guidelines. Other wiki software is avalible if you are learning the process, but Wikipedia is not meant as a classroom. Unless you are contributing to the resource in compliance with the guidelines you agreed to by joining the site, I will continue to revert the article to edits that do comply with Wikipedia policy. Plasticbadge 21:00, 24 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yes it is a classroom

I think the Wikipedia is meant to be a classroom.

The main page for wikipedia says this....

Most youths will likely at some point become involved in interactive online activities. For educators, youths' involvement with Wikipedia provides an opportunity to survey youths' understanding of online safety, and to teach appropriate practices. Educators can use Wikipedia as a way of teaching students to develop hierarchies of credibility that are essential for navigating and conducting research on the Internet. Wikipedia provides an opportunity for teachers to discuss the concept of the public domain. Wikipedia is an opportunity to participate in an open community that relies primarily on mutual respect and cooperation, but which is not related to familiar authority figures some youths might tend to oppose.

So we might have some disagreement. But the wikipedia community seems to think this is an appropriate place to learn the collaborative process. We are doing this on a page that had not been created yet and students are eager to create. Give us a chance. I think you would be much more productive if you gave suggestions here for the students to read rather than highjacking the page.BrandtSchneider 21:14, 24 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia is a collaborative project, not a classroom for learning the Wiki program. Learn, but I'm not obliged to let sloppy work stand. For example leaving "Fairfield" as the location. I'm gald you want to contribute, but keep in mind Wikipedia at large and the article in specific are not you your personal pet. Please feel free to add content as you see fit, but I will continue to edit the content to Wikipedia's standards. - Plasticbadge 21:20, 24 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]