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School disambiguation!

This page needs to be turned into a disambiguation page. Other Junipero Serra High Schools include Junipero Serra High School (Glendale, California). ^Blank ^Verse 15:49, 26 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Any Serra Alums here?

You would have to be one in order to overhaul this article!--Johnston49er 05:15, 2 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia isn't a brochure

It's obvious that the Serra faculty are editing this page, as the sweet words and ingraciating language are likely identical to the school's homepage. How about a nuetral point of view on this article please? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.230.116.23 (talk) 10:39, 10 January 2007 (UTC).[reply]

Potential copyright violations

See WP:COPYVIO, nearly all of the history section is copied from [1]. Zedla 09:14, 2 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

NPOV Dispute

As earlier stated, Wikipedia is not a brochure. This is an advertisement to parents thinking of sending their kids there. The "spirituality" section is blatantly slanted. Is it really necessary to know that this is five minutes from highway 101? The word choice is clearly biased (a "rich athletic tradition", et cetera), and ambiguous claims are ubiquitous ("Many of the student-athletes have gone on to compete at some of the top collegiate programs in the country", "The average tenure for Junípero Serra High School faculty members is nearly 15 years" (source, please?), et cetera). Also, this is copied from a non-neutral source, the school's website. Wikipedia's guidelines state that sources must be neutral. Please, someone put an NPOV dispute tagline at the the top of this page! I will soon if the article is not neutralized. --Daveroo69 04:24, 28 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

And text really shouldn't just be copied (especially if – as I suspect is the case here – the page is copyrighted). – Scartol · Talk 23:51, 29 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject class rating

This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 14:06, 9 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fair use rationale for Image:Serra logo.gif

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BetacommandBot (talk) 07:59, 15 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Fair use rationale for Image:SerraHS Logo.gif

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BetacommandBot (talk) 08:00, 15 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright problem removed

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Edit request on 19 April 2013

Moved from Help talk:Getting started -- John of Reading (talk) 06:37, 19 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

{{edit semi-protected}} Serra is NOT a Jesuit school Golfer1942 (talk) 06:16, 19 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for pointing this out. I have removed this from the article text and the box at the top right. The article doesn't say where the information came from, and the school's website doesn't mention it. -- John of Reading (talk) 06:37, 19 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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David Littlejohn (notable alumni?)

This name was added 15 March 2018 with an incomplete reference and later removed. this article might be helpful to anyone planning to re-add him. Gab4gab (talk) 15:42, 31 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Images of alumni

This issue has been discussed at the schools project. Consensus is that we do not add images of alumni to high school articles. See WP:WPSCH/AG Meters (talk) 21:52, 19 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Lame self citations

The article repeatedly uses non-independent, self citations in order to control the narrative. Not ethical. Makes you wonder what sort of ethics they teach or if they teach about how to write and cite research. 2601:446:680:AAF0:28AF:AD26:3168:80A1 (talk) 11:48, 28 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]