Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/New Providence 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 on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was Keep. Rx StrangeLove 15:05, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] New Providence High School

I don't usually nominate schools, but this is almost a joke. I've checked the edit and couldn't find a salvageable version. Unless massively cleaned up and fact checked, Del -- (☺drini♫|☎) 03:08, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

• Delete, high schools are almost never notable even if they do have passable articles. DDerby(talk) 05:29, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
  • A good rewrite, but I still believe it isn't notable, saying only 4 minor things (two of which are ext links) that anyone couldn't safely make up given the title. However, a move to New Providence School District as per Thivierr below, an entity that is closer to being notable, would be ideal if kept.DDerby(talk) 19:02, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
• keep: I am from the school, and although i did not write this, i know who did, and for the most part it is accurate, but the way it is written is in a humorous fashion..And although it seems to be false..it is written in the eyes of the students who go there. Should not Be deleted.

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.38.85.141 (talk • contribs) , the IP of one of the editors of the article, at 03:38, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

• delete: even if it were true, does the world, unto the n-th generation--- well, just read the thing for yourself before voting, and I think you'll see what I mean---CH (talk) 06:28, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete unless a major rewrite is done. Dlyons493 06:50, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
• Requires a very substantial rewrite and fact check. If this is not completed delete. Sliggy 09:56, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
  • Thanks for the rewrite. I think this information would be most usefully included in the context of its locality, so merge per Average Earthman Sliggy 14:36, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep (see proposal below) the new stub, but it definately needs major expansion. I admit the stub is very short, and normally I would never create a new stub on a school that small, but I wanted to replace the silly content which was there. From reading a bit, it seems to have some potential. --rob 10:36, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
• KEEP I am a college student from the rivaling high school. This school is a local legend and WILL be famous in approxamitely 5 years. It's the home of former Bell Labs, hence the intelligent children. KEEP —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 141.150.67.104 (talk • contribs) 12:05, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete "intellignet" children ought to be able to spell and shouldn't create cruft. Dunc|☺ 12:30, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
  • Well-mannered adults should be able to overlook typing errors. Kappa 13:44, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, make sure to discount sockpuppet keep votes. Proto t c 13:32, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, thanks for the rewrite. Kappa 13:44, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

• Keep Did something change about schools? They're being nominated at a horrific rate. Usually a little effort goes into improving an article before listing on AfD. I see nothing on the talk page for this school which indicates its anything but a stub. I concur that the "intellignet" typist needs practice, but that has nothing to do with the article. KillerChihuahua 13:49, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
• Merge with New Providence, New Jersey. The High School and Middle School have to share facilities. One or two paragraphs on all the schools in one article gives a better idea of education in the area than four separate articles with one paragraph in each that partially repeat each other. Average Earthman 14:00, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
• Proposal: I suggest we keep the article, but rename it New Providence School District. Keep the category, and categories for middle and elementary, thus treating this as a proper school article. Two paras for the high school, 1 for each of of other 3 schools, and one for the board, gives 6 paras, fairly easily. That's a full separate article. Promptly create-the required re-directs before somebody makes more stubs. Anybody searching for one of the schools, will find a school article, about that school. Merging with a borough would mess up categories by merging overly distinct things. Categories are a fundamental navigation tool in wikipedia, and must be meaningfull, but flexible. I see this as a pretty fair middle ground, in between 4/5 stubs and no article fit to be in a school category. Note: my vote stays the same, since my idea does not require an AFD, and with 20/20 hindsight, is how this should have been done instead of an AFD. --rob 15:13, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

Delete The article says nothing about the school that couldn't be said about a million other schools Paul 15:54, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

• Keep the rewrite. Create a district article for it if you must, but keep in mind that people don't remember what school district they graduated from. Society recognizes schools as an appropriate division point. Unfocused 15:59, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
  • If merged, a redirect could serve those looking for the HS. DDerby(talk) 19:02, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep as the article now stands CLW 16:14, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep as rewritten, the article is informative and beneficial to the community which it serves. Silensor 17:32, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Not another one. It is likely that in a few years there will be articles about every high school in the developed English speaking countries. Learn to live with it and move on. CalJW 18:40, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Generic. Gamaliel 19:36, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Yellow Pages stub. Ball High School is above the bar, this one isn't. Pilatus 19:39, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, While some of the things included are a little ridiculous (Super Bowl XXXIV, etc), most of the things listed have a very firm basis of fact. The CEO of Enron really DID go to NPHS. That's 100% true. There's nothing incredibly derogatory about this page, and as long as someone keeps it a little more reasonable, I see no reason to delete it. User:Jeff(talk) 20:32, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, notable. Christopher Parham (talk) 21:26, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
• keep please this is not a joke Yuckfoo 02:04, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
• Yet another verifiable permanent public institution to keep. --Gene_poole 03:29, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, the sky is blue. —RaD Man (talk) 03:32, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Please don't list articles here for clean up. There's a clean-up page, or better, clean it up. Grace Note 06:50, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. A clear example of the misuse of the AfD process. Nominator was aware that the school was possibly verifiable and re-writable. High Schools have a near 100% survival rate of the VfD/AfD process. AfD is not a tool to force the re-write of articles in WP. Wouldn't it be easier and more constructive to just edit the article instead of immediately nominating it for AfD?--Nicodemus75 11:12, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and allow for organic growth. Klonimus 23:38, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete yet another school article which says absolutely nothing of value and probably never will. Denni☯ 01:56, 24 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep We should allow for these articles to be expanded. All High Schools should be kept. PRueda29 02:50, 24 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete again *drew 07:58, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep schools. Many of the delete reasons given above are reasons for cleanup, not deletion. ··gracefool |☺ 22:01, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete - as before on every other none notable school. - Hahnchen 01:12, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete unworthy of inclusion --redstucco 09:17, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep this stub. I see no good reason for deleting it. --Andylkl ^(talk) 16:29, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Excellent, informative and concise stub. Well done. --Tony Sidaway^Talk 15:05, 30 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.