Talk:Glenbrook North High School

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Instead of a paragraph about Scott Sanderson, I added sections on sports and notable alumni. Winning state championships is pretty significant for a high school, and I'd say that some of the people on the list of alumni are pretty notable, too. Cheers. --BaronLarf 21:24, Apr 25, 2005 (UTC)

Yeah, I like the notable alumni section.Cordd

1 Votes for deletion
2 FYI
3 Neutrality?
4 Page Name
5 Activities

[edit] Votes for deletion

Glenbrook North High School survived vfd. See: Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Glenbrook North High School -- Wile E. Heresiarch 16:09, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Another non-notable high school. I wish other articles could be this long. Rick K 06:10, Aug 8, 2004 (UTC)

Keep, but cut it down and NPOV it. The "power-puff" hazing incident made national headlines in the U.S. --Slowking Man 06:13, Aug 8, 2004 (UTC)
Keep, I agree with Slowking Man. It's notible enough that it merits a place here. It has close to 4,000 google hits which is significantly more than a non-notible high school that I tested it against (my own, no claim to fame). -SocratesJedi 07:54, 8 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Keep: Kinda sorta wish the puff paragraphs were shorter, but I have no real gripe with them. Probably a good idea to amend the opening sentence so that it's clear off the bat that this article is here because the school has been in the news, and not because everyone should want to go there. Geogre 12:41, 8 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Keep. Needs some cleanup. Speaking as a diehard nonnotable-secondary-school-deletionist... my argument has been that "local interest" pieces are far more acceptable if they say something interesting about the place. One of the arguments for keeping articles about high schools is that alums will get a warm fuzzy when they see the Wikipedia article; but the typical stubby article (address, district, number of students, name of principal) is pleasing to nobody, alum or stranger, and are not valuable nuclei that will induce bigger articles to crystallize around them. I think the combination of a) being setting for Ferris Bueller's Day Off, a notable movie IMHO, b) one silly "in-the-news" item, and c) one significant "in-the-news" item, justifies its inclusion. Plus it gets more Google hits than my own high school. Actually, I'll go further than that. IMHO, this article is a model of how to write a (marginally) keepable article about a marginally notable high school. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 15:03, 8 Aug 2004 (UTC) P. S. While Northrop High School is a model of what not to do. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 00:14, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- Comment: Have we seen Northrop High School here yet? Also, Baltimore City College is a different model of what not to do (very notable school, so definitely not VfD). I know two Wikipedians, one who went there and one who worked there, who can't persuade themselves to help it out. Geogre 04:04, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  - Just put Northrop High School up for discussion. (Incidentally, I vote Keep on this page, but please slim it down.)
Well beat me with a frozen turd and call me Ferris Bueller, but this is one high school article I vote to keep. Never thought I'd see the day, but there is enough actual newsworthiness her, plus sufficient salacious comment, that it provides info plus chuckle. Denni ☯ 01:53, 2004 Aug 10 (UTC)
Keep. What a nice change. I remember when the "powder puff" thing made national news. While I wouldn't probably vote to keep based on just that, when you throw in the Ferris Bueller connection and the other somewhat notable stuff, you get out a school easilly worth an article. Isomorphic 04:17, 10 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Keep. For the news & film reasons mentioned above. Sahasrahla 04:03 EDT, August 10, 2004
Yeah, keep - although I'll admit I initially thought that they had a Powerpuff-themed hazing. DS 22:47, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Keepski - I went to this school and I was at the hazing incident. You guys who write stuff on Wikipedia are a bunch of nerds, but that's cool. Anyway, I made some changes that make the original entry better. Also, it's not Powerpuff, that's a t.v. show on Cartoon Network, it's Powderpuff, as in the sporting event where girls play the sport and guys are the cheerleaders. - Babb

End. Survived VfD. Moved discussion.

[edit] FYI

GBN also stands for Glenbard North High School -- a school in Carol Stream, Illinois — Ilγαηερ (Tαlκ) 02:40, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Neutrality?

Just an observation, the "Media attention" section seems rather biased, hardly neutral, and not very well supported in claims (i.e. the media will do anything for attention, etc).

I believe I said that, "the media would do anything for better ratings for a couple of days," and that is true. But whatever, I'm just an innocent web surfer who happened to come across some folk who were talking about his former high school, without mentioning the many accomplishments that is associated with the school. Do you guys know that the Glenbrook North Debate Team was National champs for a couple of years in a row? I guess people only care about negative press though, and not press about accomplishments and positive news. In December of 2002, Glenbrook North bought one of their employees a new car and presents for her kids with money that one of the clubs raised. The story was in a couple of magazines, but like I said, you guys wouldn't put something like that in your definition because it is the bad stuff that counts. -- Babb

[edit] Page Name

Per a user request I've moved the page back to Glenbrook North High School, which is the name used for the school in the introductory line of the article. If you want it renamed again please discuss it here and reach consensus before unilaterally moving it. --kingboyk 19:53, 10 March 2006 (UTC)