Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Helsby High School

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. Joyous! | Talk 04:49, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Helsby High School

non-encyclopedic entry of a non-noteworthy secondary school Akradecki 00:06, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

After the cleanup mentioned below, I can see it's value...I'll say keep, and I'd withdraw if I knew how.... Akradecki 04:49, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

• Cleanup and Keep but then again I think all secondary schools should be included. --Pboyd04 00:12, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, although I disagree that high schools are notable/should be included on Wikipedia, they are. OMEN 00:19, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
• Keep because a)I've cleaned it up and the nom refers to previous poor state of article b)the school was given Specialist Science College status in 2003. Tyrenius 00:41, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. A stub, but the school dates the the 19th century. --JJay 00:59, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
• Keep - cleaned up so its now fine as a stub. BlueValour 01:04, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
• Keep secondary schools are kept as a matter of course. SM247^{My Talk} 03:19, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, high schools are notable and its status makes it even more notable. --Terence Ong _{(Chat | Contribs)} 04:27, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, there is no notablity asserted for this school... and yet again we see repeated misinformation being spread regarding schools on Wikipedia. They are not inherently notable, and there is no precedent for automatically voting keep. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Precedents#Education... usually no consensus, mostly thanks to the sheer amount of misinformation that is spread around. And Wikipedia:Notability_(schools)/Arguments for a summary of the keep/delete arguments. Neither is there any Wikipedia schools policy. In short, each AFD case should be considered on its own merits and blanket statements abouts all schools are mere hand-waving. In this particular case: my last house was built in 1862, earlier than this school. My house is not notable either. There's actually more information about the local politician who laid the foundation than the school itself. It's just not notable enough for its own article. - Motor (talk) 13:52, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. WP:SCHOOLS isn't policy, and this is just another school. Appears to be old, but really isn't by British standards. -- GWO
• Keep — As always, notability is in the eye of the beholder. Statements to the contrary, I find most high schools and their equivalent to be notable institutions; at least as much your typical village or hamlet article. Endlessly rehashing statements about the validity of WP:SCHOOLS hasn't swayed my position. If the WP:SCHOOLS article didn't reach a positive consensus on schools, neither did it do so in the negative. Ergo my preference is to keep. Thanks. :-) — RJH (talk) 16:31, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Schools are important. Ramseystreet 04:16, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
• keep please it is a important high school and nominator has withdrawn Yuckfoo 21:22, 5 July 2006 (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.