Talk:Culver Academies

Culver Academies Communications Office Contact

Greetings Wikipedia users. As part of the Communications office at Culver Academies I understand that it's frowned upon to edit our own Wikipedia page. However, I'd like to offer any assistance we can provide as you make and approve edits. We're happy to resource you with documentation, photos, historical collateral, updated statistics or anything that could be used to corroborate and support the content on this page. Please reach out to us at communications (at) culver.org. Thanks, Milnem00 (talk) 18:57, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

Hi, Milnem00. I appreciate the upfront attitude and willingness to work with us. I'll have some things to say here about how you can help improve the article, and I will leave you some further information on what you are required to do in order to do so as a WP:PAID editor on your talk page.

First, statistics will not be of much help, unless you want to handle the job of gathering them from secondary sources. For attendance and demographics, the preferred source is NCES. Any internally generated statistics are of no use here. As far as your history archives are concerned, the only things we could use are published sources such as newspaper clippings, magazine articles or books that may reside there. Everything else would be primary and not of much use. In order for photos to be used, someone with the authority to do so (usually the photographer) would have to release copyright on them under CC BY-SA 3.0, unless they date prior to 1923. Also, we only use photos to illustrate copy, and then sparingly. Generally, unless a photo would tell the story better than words, we will not use a photo in the article. They may still be uploaded, and the category for photos of Culver on Wikipedia Commons can be linked on this article. I cannot see what use internal documents could be. Of the things you have offered, accessing the school's archive is probably the most useful, and thank you for that. John from Idegon (talk) 21:12, 4 October 2018 (UTC)