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FYI, all the URLs on the page are likely correct, but the whole district site has been taken down, likely because of the recent tragedy. My recommendation is to leave the URLs in place, my guess is that they will work in a week or a month from now. --Arg342 (talk) 14:25, 15 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Edit request - Sandy Hook School
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The name of the school is Sandy Hook School. I showed you the definitive proof, a photo of the school sign. The fact that the article refers to it as "Sandy Hook Elementary" doesn't make it the actual school name. It's standard for a news site to use Elementary, Middle or High for a school name. As I said, none of the four elementary schools in the Newtown Public Schools have the word Elementary in their names, as correctly shown for the other three schools on the list in the article. --76.189.123.142 (talk) 04:38, 16 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. And I know I'm right because I know people who live in that general area and everyone there knows the name of the school is Sandy Hook School. But of course I need to provide reliable sources on here to prove it, which I have. Actually, you can change it since you're a registered user. Thanks, Anna. --76.189.123.142 (talk) 07:11, 16 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
This image shows a very prominent and expensive sign with the word 'Elementary' in it. I doubt that they would have sprung for an extra 10 giant metal letters if this was not the name of the school. Abductive (reasoning) 07:16, 16 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
"Elementary my dear, Anna (and Abductive)". A bit OR-ish but there it is, "SANDY HOOK ELEMENTARY... " in rather big (5 bricks high) letters. - 220ofBorg07:35, 16 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Not done: Sometimes an institution goes by more than one name, even to the point of contradictory signs. (At a school I once attended, there was a spirited, ongoing argument as to whether "The" was part of the official name. Go figure. Any wonder I became a Wikipedian?) Nonetheless, we should pick one or the other, and I think the choice is clear. The Hartford Courant, the largest newspaper in Connecticut, refers to it as "Sandy Hook Elementary School", as does a local television station. Local media should know. If that's not local enough, how about going to the horse's mouth: the school's own web site should be reliable, I think. Re-closing good-faith edit request now. Rivertorch (talk) 07:56, 16 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Here is the Newtwon Public Schools' home page on their official website. Hover on the Schools tab? What does it say the name of the school is? Notice how the Intermediate, Middle and High schools all use those words in the names, yet the four elementary schools do not use the word Elementary. Why would the school district use the full name for three schools, but not for the other four? Answer: because those are the actual names of each of the schools. Do you actually believe that three of the elementary schools don't have Elementary in their actual names, but that the school district decided they would break that pattern and have the other one include it? The answer is no. I assure you that the name will ultimately be changed to the correct name, Sandy Hook School. And for the record, local media (and all media, for that matter) always use Elementary, Middle and High when naming schools in their stories; it is standard journalism convention to do so. It's simply done for clarity. Finally, the Hartford Courant is NOT the local newspaper; it's the metroplitan newspaper for the region. Hartford is 50 miles from Sandy Hook. The local newspaper is the Newtown Bee, which verifies that the name of the school is Sandy Hook School.[2] --76.189.123.142 (talk) 15:23, 16 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Resolved
Not done: It seems it'r referred to by both names and in the article you provided a link to it's referred to as both. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 04:30, 16 December 2012 (UTC)