Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Centennial High School (Ellicott City)

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 deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was keep. – Robert 01:21, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Centennial High School (Ellicott City)

• Non-notable school
• This afd nomination was orphaned. Listing now. —Crypticbot (operator) 15:38, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
• This page needs some serious cleanup; right now it's almost entirely PoV. So I vote to delete and start over. — RJH 16:20, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Even better would be to list on the schoolwatch clean up page rather than Afd. If it is not cleaned up there then it could be merged with redirect. David D. (Talk) 19:28, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
• I cleaned out the POV and added a link to the school’s website. We are left with one sentence and a link. •DanMS 21:31, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete Is every school in the US notable? Avalon 22:04, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
• Merge with school district for later expansion if someone wants to write an article that meets the new requirements at WP:SCH. Gateman1997 00:32, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep for the usual reasons. The article has been signficantly expanded and has room to grow. Silensor 00:50, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
• Weak keep per WP:SCH proposal. While this article doesn't actually comply with the proposed requirements (it has enough content, but WP:SCH suggests that facts be verifiable from sources other than those published by the school itself), it's hard to argue that it fails to comply with the spirit of the proposal. A verifiable external source for the "top 100" claim, and preferably the exact position in the rankings, would make this a firm "keep". And I'm a deletionist mergist where schools are concerned, mind. — Haeleth Talk 01:59, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
• keep this school please it is very important Yuckfoo 02:39, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep this particular high school article makes a reasonable notability claim. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 04:03, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. -- DS1953 20:41, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, notable. Christopher Parham (talk) 01:40, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep High schools --Aranda ⁵⁶ 21:53, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, Not notable school Catchpole 13:45, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep or Merge into school district or town if article is both below three sentances and lacks any sort of illustration, boxed info-template or picture when AFD is closed. This school, like all others, is an important public institution and should be written about somewhere, even if it cannot sustain an article on it's own. Presently people do create school articles containing neutral, verifiable information and it is impossible to delete them, even though many have a desire to do so. Rather than striving for an impossible consensus to delete any given school article, I feel it is always preferable and takes much less energy to merge the text of the article into an article about a suitable habitation or administrative unit: a city, county or state, or a school district of local education authority of other school system, while taking care not to delete the information contained in the article. If the article is merged, the current location should be replaced by a redirect, and the edit history maintained for future use. This is the baseline consensus that I feel was reached at WP:SCH. Hipocrite - «Talk» 14:26, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep or Merge as per Hipocrites analysis above. David D. (Talk) 16:59, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, good article. Kappa 04:39, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

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 deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.