Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Elmwood High School (Bloomdale, Ohio)

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 was Merge to Bloomdale, Ohio. —Quarl ^(talk) 2007-02-26 09:34Z

[edit] Elmwood High School (Bloomdale, Ohio)

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Non-notable school, one of many schools added by same user without any sort of notability asserted. Seinfreak37 14:52, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

• Delete and Merge pertinent information to Bloomdale, Ohio per WP:ORG and/or WP:SCHOOLS3. — PSUMark2006 talk | contribs 17:04, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
• Merge into Bloomdale, Ohio. — RJH (talk) 18:18, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
• KEEP Stub in development. There's a reason we have a "Stub" category. Nominator has far exceeded reasonable good faith in nominating many, many pages for deletion in last few days. EagleFan 21:22, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Comment - Stubs are for articles which have a reasonable chance of passing the notability threshhold by way of multiple citations in independent, external sources - typically, stubs themselves also have an assertion of notability from the outset. See in particular the section on the 'ideal stub article'. — PSUMark2006 talk | contribs 23:02, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Comment. I very strongly feel that it is EagleFan who is exceeding good faith here. EagleFan, let's be clear about this: by adding vast numbers of articles without providing any reason to believe that their subjects are notable you are simply spamming Wikipedia in an attempt to impose your personal view that all schools should have articles. Wikipedia works only when we all accept the common principles that guide and bind us, and one of the chiefs of these is that the topics we cover meet our guidelines for notability and verifiability. Notability is not subjective within this project. You may not like this any more than I do - we all have subjects that we feel should be included, but which fail our community guidelines - but we have to live by these shared principles, or our project will fail. There is no room here for prima donnas who seek to impose their personal likes and dislikes. We are all trying to build the best encyclopedia we can, but right now your approach is counter-productive, and I strongly feel you should stop, and try to work in a more consensual way. By all means add articles about schools, but make sure that they are well documented and researched, and provide clear evidence of notability to support them: do this and I will be the first to applaud you. WMMartin 13:58, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

• delete Might be better to develop it off-line to avoid problems here. The number of articles successfully created and kept will be higher, & we'll have more & better articles DGG 01:46, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
• Delete please refer to my comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lake High School (Millbury, Ohio). Ohconfucius 07:00, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
• Delete. (a) The article is inadequately reference/sourced, and (b) the article was created by someone who has been going along creating schools articles on a regular basis without then asserting or demonstrating notability. I don't have a problem with individual articles being created and then giving them time to grow, but this particular article is part of a whole group, many of which display the same pernicious pattern. It would be better for EagleFan to create articles on one school at a time, and work on them till they meet our standards, rather than simply impose his preference for inadequately documented schools articles on the project as a whole. As Wikipedia editors we all surely want high quality articles: we are not well-served by the bulk creation of low quality articles. WMMartin 13:58, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletions. -- Noroton 16:07, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
• Merge to Bloomdale, Ohio. If more information about the school becomes available later, it can be split back out to a separate article. --Elonka 21:57, 25 February 2007 (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.