The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a
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The result was Keep.—
Quarl(
talk) 2007-02-26 09:08Z
Delete NN high school, fails even WP:SCHOOL's low standard as the article basically just says the school exists.
TJ Spyke 02:38, 22 February 2007 (UTC)reply
Delete I don't see any claim of notability here. Out! --
Brianyoumans 06:15, 22 February 2007 (UTC)reply
Delete.I see a serious lack of content. I concur with TJ. -
Mgm|
(talk) 12:46, 22 February 2007 (UTC)reply
Merge a brief summary onto the
Fallon page. —
RJH (
talk) 18:27, 22 February 2007 (UTC)reply
Keep - I have started a rewrite of the article. This is a school that has a high profile in the local community, a long history, and with notable features, and the way forward is to further develop the article, as is the way with all stubs, not to kill it off.
TerriersFan 18:40, 22 February 2007 (UTC)reply
Weak Delete. There's a bunch of little stuff, but (IMO) no one big thing that pushes it over the notability threshold. The closest is that award, but that makes the teacher notable, not the school. --
UsaSatsui 20:15, 22 February 2007 (UTC)reply
Comment - first in the state in the academic league is about as good as it gets. Also, teachers do not win awards in isolation and such awards inevitably highlight the school.
TerriersFan 20:20, 22 February 2007 (UTC)reply
Good points, but I just disagree. --
UsaSatsui 23:23, 22 February 2007 (UTC)reply
Strong Keep. "[A]nother unnotable public high school" is a bad justification for nomination. I don't see why there shouldn't be an article for every public school eventually. Admittedly, the article is weak, but that certainly isn't justification for deletion. —xanderer 00:06, 23 February 2007 (UTC)reply
Keep. Good enough notability claims for me in the rewrite,
WP:SCHOOL is only proposed anyway.
BryanG(talk) 03:42, 23 February 2007 (UTC)reply
Keep Since it has been around since 1916 I would like to see more of it's history in rewrite.
MarlaB 10:57, 23 February 2007 (UTC)reply
Delete. Notability is neither asserted nor supported by the references. Being founded in 1916 doesn't exactly make the school old - unless my mathematics fails me that's less than a century - and anyway age per se isn't notable. The good teacher may ( or may not ) be notable, but the school doesn't automatically acquire notability by contagion. Doing well in a sports or academic league doesn't automatically convey notability, since the results could be simply due to random events: if we saw consistent evidence of the inculcation of ( say ) great academic prowess or softball skills this would be notable, but right now there's nothing to say that these events are due to the school doing something out of the ordinary. The closed circuit TV system and drug abuse are, sadly, entirely un-notable within the public school system.
WMMartin 13:35, 23 February 2007 (UTC)reply
Keep. All high schools are notable -
WP:SCHOOL is not policy, and in this case an active editor has been improving the article to establish notability to a level that will meet most deletionist requirements.
AntiVan 05:45, 24 February 2007 (UTC)reply
Keep. No concerns are presented that would not be better solved by merging.
Christopher Parham(talk) 22:04, 24 February 2007 (UTC)reply
Keep this one as an example of what a school article should be, two sources cited are secondary and substantial.
SeraphimbladeTalk to mePlease review me! 17:06, 25 February 2007 (UTC)reply
Keep school is notable, has lots of references
LordHarris 17:09, 25 February 2007 (UTC)reply
Keep. Public high schools are inherently worthy of Wikipedia articles, and this article is well-referenced. --
Elonka 21:23, 25 February 2007 (UTC)reply
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a
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