Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Highland High School (New Jersey)

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 per general consensus that high schools are notable. howcheng {chat} 17:13, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Highland High School (Blackwood, New Jersey)

This topic isn't significant enough to have an article. King of Hearts 05:35, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

• Keep and Expand It absolutely is significant. There's a huge project to create High School entries across the country. In my region we have pages for Sitka High School, Mt. Edgecumbe High School, and Juneau-Douglas High School. It's not a very well written article, but it shouldn't be deleted it should be improved! Jarfingle 05:39, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Yes, been throught this a hundred times. Keep, high schools are inherently notable. -- Миборовский ^{U|T|C|E|Chugoku Banzai!} 07:23, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

• Keep and Expand- Another high school article. What are the chances this gets deleted? Close to zero. Why do they get nominated? Good question...oh and the unreferenced tag is pretty funny -- JJay 07:36, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. This article is almost empty and looks like a yellow pages entry. Cleaning this up would more or less mean discarding the entire content so it is better to start from scratch. Sjakkalle (Check!) 08:02, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep now that this is an article. Sjakkalle (Check!) 08:25, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Just another nn school. Catchpole 11:22, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

I don't understand. By saying that this entry should be deleted you're saying that high school entries should not be included in wikipedia??? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jarfingle (talk • contribs) 2005 December 16.

No. Wikipedia should host articles on notable subjects with verified importance and relevancy. That means if the school has a relevant history or notable ex-alumni then it stays. The AFDs should be directed to those schools which are only locally relevant,i.e., don't hold a relevant history or never produced verifiably notable alumni --Mecanismo | Talk 12:53, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

User:Catchpole is voting to delete all schools as a "counterweight" to those who want to keep schools. [1] Silensor 19:03, 16 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 ma
• Keep, no reason readers shouldn't be able to look up information on important things like high schools, whereever they are in the world. Kappa 16:54, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

• You are right. Yet, the key word is "important". If a subject is verifiably important, notable and relevant outside a local scale then it is worthy of an encyclopedia article. If the subject doesn't fill those demands, it should be left out --Mecanismo | Talk 12:56, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

• Why should people donate to an encyclopedia promising them the sum of human knowledge but denying them access to information they regard as important? Kappa 01:54, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

• First of all, no one has ever promissed the "sum of human knowledge". Second, because they are investing their money in the creation of an encyclopedia and not a directory listing. An encyclopedia is dedicated to verifiably notable and referenciable knowledge. If someone wants the "sum of human knowledge" that person is better off investing in google, for example --Mecanismo | Talk 01:02, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

• Delete re arguments for deletion at WP schools. Eusebeus 17:13, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep all valid high schools. — RJH 17:33, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep not only is this a notable topic the school also meets the WP:SCH proposal. Please read the article before voting people.Gateman1997 18:15, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
  • What makes you think we didn't read the article? Kappa 18:18, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
    • Kappa check my vote... I was directing this at anyone who is voting delete because it's a school. They obviously aren't reading the article which deals primarily with a notable event related to a very notable individual.Gateman1997 18:27, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
    • I read the page. The case may certainly be notable in which case the best thing would be to redirect to ACLU v. Black Horse Regional Board of Education when someone creates that article. The school itself, however, is still an unnotable collection of bricks and mortar. Eusebeus 18:49, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep as per Wikipedia:Schools/Arguments#Keep. Silensor 19:03, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep notable event (signficance/coverage outside local area) and mildly notable alumni. So, good basis of expansion. Easily meets requirements of WP:SCH. --Rob 19:11, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Nominating high schools is known to be pointless. CalJW 00:08, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep <remove personal attack>. Kurt Weber 02:05, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete as nomination --Mecanismo | Talk 12:38, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Agree with Jarfingle that high schools are notable. —Brim 06:56, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

• Why are all highschools notable? Is it impossible that an obscure highschool exists? --Mecanismo | Talk 01:02, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

• Keep and expand. -- DS1953 ^talk 06:06, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
• keep and expand it too please Yuckfoo 07:11, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and Expand pages for high schools nationwide are being updated as part of a WikiProject, and it easily meets WP:SCH criteria. Furthermore, school information for New Jersey high schools are being expanded as part of WikiProject New Jersey. Between these two efforts, this page will be expanded further beyond the WP:SCH standards it already meets. These AfD's are cropping up constantly for high schools and are constantly resulting in decisions to Keep. Let's put this high school issue to bed once and for all. Alansohn 16:11, 20 December 2005 (UTC). Furthermore, the school is part of a regional high school district serving three separate communities. There is no one page that this information could be inserted into. As such, Merge isn't even a viable option. As there is no justification to Delete the page, Keep must be the result (and will be, based on past results). Alansohn 16:19, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep verifiable by credible sources redstucco 09:23, 21 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.