Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/North Rowan High School

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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 no consensus, defaulting to keep. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 04:41, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] North Rowan High School

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Not Notable - Mike Beckham 02:19, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Why do you feel so? Small townships with population of 5 have Wikipedia articles with nothing more but demographics. Tgpuckett 02:30, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
Because for some reason, the policy is that all cities/towns/villages are notable. No such policy exists for schools (which is why I hate when people try and say that "all schools are notable" as their only reason for voting Keep). TJ Spyke 07:19, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
It contains little informational content and only houses sections with little to no content. Has no encyclopaedic content. - Mike Beckham 06:47, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
  • This AfD nomination was incomplete. It is listed now. DumbBOT 06:48, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete No signs of notability. TJ Spyke 07:19, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete As above. If every school of this size had an article like this then it would take up most of Wikipedia. ANHL 11:40, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
    • You have a strange notion of digital content. — RJH (talk)
  • Delete Well I guess I agree, there's not much here. Tgpuckett 14:24, 28 March 2007 (UTC)— Tgpuckett (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
  • Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletions. -- Noroton 00:47, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep All high schools are notable, as I argue here Noroton 01:03, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete There is no consensus at Wikipedia that high schools are or are not notable, as evidenced by the fact that high school AfDs are closed as "keep", "delete" and "no consensus". This article should be deleted pursuant to WP:N and WP:A. --Butseriouslyfolks 01:51, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Weak keep high schools are notable, yet this one has no specific notability. --Masterpedia 02:11, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep, as I contend with all high school articles, though this one is borderline even for me. Realkyhick 04:05, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep per the comments above, with the added remark that it would be helpful if the nominator would put more time and consideration into future nominations. Burntsauce 20:21, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Weak keep — It's adequate but could be improved. — RJH (talk) 21:06, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete per Butseriouslyfolks points --Xarr 08:27, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Weak Keep. High schools are generally notable, provided they make an attempt at establishing notability. This one does a mediocre job of establishing notability, but I at least see enough of an attempt.--Wizardman 21:51, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep per my belief that all secondary schools are notable, article successfully meets all relevant content policies. Yamaguchi先生 03:05, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep schools are notable due to their influences on the hundreds of students that pass through them.  ALKIVAR™ ☢ 05:56, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep, per Alkivar. Schools are notable and this article can grow. bbx 09:41, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached
 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Shimeru 06:27, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment Keep arguments are very weak here, but delete arguments aren't much better. I don't feel comfortable closing in this state, so am relisting to see whether notability and attribution can be addressed, as late comments indicate they can. Shimeru 06:31, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
  • bbx and alkivar, how about basing you decisions on GUIDELINE and POLICY rather than your personal belief? Almost all of the keep votes consist soley of that BS opinion that all schools are notable. Their is no guideline or policy that says this, so I hope admins ignore people who only say that and don't actually state something to support them. The article fails WP:N, which is a policy and not just an opinion. TJ Spyke 07:18, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
    Mere comment. I'm staying out of this one but I would like to point out that WP is built on consensus. WP is not a democracy but one of the very basics is that policy is not set in stone - please don't dismiss other's opinions (in this case, that schools should be exempt from WP:N or that they should by default always be notable unless proven otherwise) as a mere policy violation. -- Seed 2.0 21:51, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
    • There is no consensus that all high schools are notable. It used to be that most were kept by default, but thankfully others users have started to crack down on this and realized that schools are not exempt and that they have to follow the guidelines and policies arleady established. TJ Spyke 22:18, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment There was even an consensus at one time that all middle schools were notable, and that one has thankfully be laid to rest, though there are a few dissidents. The rational part of the concept that all high school are notable is the assumption that if the subject was examined closely enough, then something notable would eventually be found and eventually documented. This may even be true of some schools--many large long-established schools might prove to have the minimum of two notable graduates if sufficient search were made. But a similar argument could be used about almost any subject. It could for example be made about apartment buildings, which might quite possibly turn out to have had at least two notable residents. Or hospitals. And hospitals also have an influence on the thousands of patients that pass through them. WP is apparently to not be a collection of indiscriminate information, except for [whatever your favorite subject may be]. DGG 01:16, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete per TJSpyke and DGG Baristarim 04:39, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
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