Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Colis P. Huntington High School

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The result of the debate was KEEP. -Splash 01:16, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Colis P. Huntington High School now moved to Collis P. Huntington High School (spelling)

Does not assert notability, and orphaned on top of that Pilatus 13:13, 1 September 2005 (UTC) Keep after rewrite. Pilatus 17:32, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

• A school that closed 34 years ago is even less notable than a school open today. Quick, post its OFSTED report and its website ... oh wait ... you can't. Strong delete. Proto t c 13:24, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, important historical information, wikipedia is not a news service. Kappa 13:57, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

*Merge to Newport News Public Schools - I usually abstain on schools votes, but I'd have thought a sane consensus should be possible in the case of a defunct school - keep the info, lose the article. --Doc (?) 14:14, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

• Delete nn DV8 2XL 14:36, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete High Schools are on the cusp of notability. Closed high schools are mostly NN. Roodog2k 14:38, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
• No vote as yet. I'm not in favor of keeping unverifiable articles and, although the name of the shipping and rail magnate Colis P. Huntington would be a likely one for a school in Newport News, I am unable to verify yet that the school in question ever existed. Please count this as a delete if nobody is able to verify. The fact that it's a defunct school is immaterial. If it existed and has a verifiable history then I shall be happy to write a damn good article about it. --Tony Sidaway^Talk 15:37, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

A quick search seems to confirm most of it - although it mostly turns up as simply 'Huntington High School' see [1] and [2] and this (which does use the full name) [3]. I think that's verification enough for me. --Doc (?) 15:45, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

It also causes me to change my vote - I'd merge a nn closed school - but the history of this school is of cultural interest (see the above links) so keep --Doc (?) 15:49, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. nnBillyCreamCorn 15:51, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
• Thanks, Doc. I also managed to verify it. It is referred to as Huntington High, and there were two colored schools in Newport News, this one and George Washington Carver, separated by a railroad track. At least one former Branch President of the NAACP went there, Flora Crittenden (one newspaper says it was Carver, but an official Virginia House bill thanking delegate Crittenden for her service says it was Huntington). So let's see, segregated black school in the South, closed when segregation ended. This has history coming out of its lugholes. Keep and expand. Onwards and upwards! --Tony Sidaway^Talk 15:54, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
• D, yawn. Radiant_>|< 15:57, September 1, 2005 (UTC)
• K, yawn. Klonimus 23:40, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
• Comment. We now have our first notable alumnus. It's a doozy! His credits fill a whole paragraph, even with severe trimming. --Tony Sidaway^Talk 16:34, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
  • And another. Former US Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary is an alumna. --Tony Sidaway^Talk 16:49, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
    • Tony, thank you for finding those. We can read the article to see further additions.Gateman1997 16:50, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
    • Spoilsport. Announcing the changes and seeing the votes change from delete to keep is half the fun! :) --Tony Sidaway^Talk 17:13, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, notable enough for an entry per Schools for Deletion.Gateman1997 16:40, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep — Interesting for historical reasons. — RJH 16:42, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
• keep please all high schools are notable so proto why have such a attitude? Yuckfoo 18:04, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Not only intrinsically notable, actually notable. Sdedeo 18:09, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
• week keep No way is a school *ever* close to being intrinsically notable. However, this one has demonstrated sufficient notablity that it will suffice. Though it does sound like the first alumnus deserves her own page rather than being tagged onto the bottom othe article. Dunc|☺ 18:29, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete does not differ significantly from other High Schools --TimPope 18:51, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
  • Dammit, Tim, where did you go to school? I want to send my kids there! :) --Tony Sidaway^Talk 19:32, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
    • It doesn't have an article yet. Its motto is non-notabile est. And yes I would probably vote delete if someone vfd'd it ;P --TimPope 19:40, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
• Bicycle, for the usual reasons.--Nicodemus75 19:12, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep for the lessons learned there, and now again, here. Thank you once again, Tony Sidaway. Keep this up, and I'll call you "Professor Sidaway". Unfocused 19:25, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep - history and alumni. --rob 20:00, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep - Information about present-day schools are Wiki-worthy enough... UniReb 21:24, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, looks good now. JYolkowski // talk 21:41, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Closure doesn't stop an institution being notable any more than death stops a person being notable. CalJW 22:11, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Being a school doesn't make it notable any more than being a person makes you notable. - brenneman^(t)(c) 23:44, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

In-fighting moved to talk page.

• Keep. -- DS1953 01:00, September 2, 2005 (UTC)
• I belong to the "delete all schools no matter what" cabal described above, but this should be kept for historical noteworthiness. Dottore So 02:00, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
  • <quietly faints> --Tony Sidaway^Talk 02:07, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
    • See Tony I told you there was hope for a middle ground.Gateman1997 02:47, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
    • <group hug>. :-D --Tony Sidaway^Talk 03:07, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
• Extreme keep, obviously. —RaD Man (talk) 06:06, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. The school appears to have a notable role in the history of desegregation. Sjakkalle (Check!) 06:33, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Notable school Guerberj 17:03, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, notability established. Christopher Parham (talk) 21:54, 2005 September 2 (UTC)
• Delete not notable by any sane stretch of the imagination. Dunc|☺ 00:06, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Not notable. CDThieme 00:32, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep this passes my notability bar.  ALKIVAR™ 23:11, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
• Enough of this pointless, time-wasting, impositional deletionist nonsense! Keep. --Gene_poole 13:29, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Not notable. Jonathunder 15:27, 2005 September 4 (UTC)
• Delete not notable. Nandesuka 22:23, 5 September 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 an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.