Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Milton High School (Alpharetta, Georgia)

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 keep. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 16:45, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Milton High School (Alpharetta, Georgia)

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Ok, this nomination might be a little controversial because of the whole WP:SCHOOL debate, but hear me out here. This article simply can't be verified without going to the school's official page, which is vague and spun. The article is far from neutral anyway, and is full with unverifiable facts. It is original research. PTO 18:01, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

• Weak Keep but Stubify - I absolutely agree with you that the article's current content violates WP:V (or at least WP:CITE, and for the record I think we need some way to restrict the exponential growth of articles on obscure schools (of which a lot have appeared today on Special:Newpages). However, as it stands, thousands of other schools with no claim to notability have their own article; we can't really deny coverage to this one. I say remove all the unverifiable facts (which is most of the article) and reduce to a stub. Walton monarchist89 18:20, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
• Weak keep: This needs to be completely rewritten, but I see some notability. Last I checked WP:SCHOOL, nearly winning state was pretty notable. Of course, you can't really cite

WP:SCHOOL and expect to be heard seeing as how it's not a policy now. This at least tries to establish notability, if we can get rid of the schoolcruft this will be a good enough article.--Wizardman 19:48, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

• Delete Only thing noteable is winning state in 1 sport in 2003. Which is hardly enough to get press coverage or indepedant sources. WP:SCHOOL will continue to be rejected because they shouldn't be letting schools like this in. EVERY school has probably won state for some sport at least once in its histroy, this is expecially true for non-americian schools in other counteries where the states are alot smaller. Nothing is notable about this school at all.--155.144.251.120 21:58, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
• Keep Hate to beat a dead horse, but high schools really are inherently notable. Why are we bothering to chase these articles on places that are important to communities. Furthermore, these verifiability arguments are needlessly bureaucratic. Why would you assume bad faith on information provided on a high school website? It seems natural that there would be good info available on the school. These nominations waste people's time. Nlsanand 04:26, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

• Why is it that everyone thinks schools are notable? WP:SCHOOLS will never get through either because everyone always wants to put in enough allowances to there own school squeezes through. Oh well might as well keep all of these for now.....--Dacium 05:30, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

• Keep Per Nlsanand. Killroy4 05:27, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
• delete because I do not think high schools are necessarily notable, except to the inmates. Some are, but as there will never be consensus that all are, its time to stop pretending that there is. Instead, the people who want them in should help the rest of us develop some usable criteria.DGG 06:20, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
• Weak keep, but reduce to a history, including present arrangements and sporting achievements. This much should be verifiable. Eludium-q36 18:34, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
• Keep but it needs work. — RJH (talk) 19:35, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
• Obvious Keep - High Schools should be kept up, but with limited access. TheSun (talk • contribs) 23:40, 22 January 2007 (UTC).
• keep please this article needs some improvement but not erasure yuckfoo 20:28, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
• Keep WP:RS states a subjects own webpage can be used as a primary source in an article upon the subject. add more references, cleanup the POV... and KEEP!  ALKIVAR™ ☢ 00:43, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
• Delete. Certainly the school exists, but there is no evidence of notability. ( I don't buy the "alumni" argument: there's no consistency to the alumni suggesting that the school has a notable record of developing people's talent for some particular skill-set. ) WMMartin 13:42, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
• Keep. Meets all relevant policies and guidelines. Please read this email by Jimmy Wales for further details. Silensor 02:30, 26 January 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.