Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Barrington High School

This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record.
The result of the debate was - kept - SimonP 01:33, May 22, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Barrington High School

Current content is "Barrington High School is a high school in Barrington, Illinois." Delete. Neutrality^talk 22:51, May 16, 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. Non-notable. Quale 01:19, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Tell me something beyond the obvious. Gazpacho 02:15, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete for all of the above reasons and it really says nothing. Vegaswikian 02:36, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• Weak keep, just because any high school has potential to have an encyclopedic article written about it IMO. Having said that, this is not it — it has been a sub-stub for entirely too long, and as currently written says almost nothing. Rlquall 02:45, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep - may develop in time. Lupin 02:54, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. I can't resist cute cheerleaders. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 03:25, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Useless collection of generic facts about an insignificant school. This is not an encyclopedia article. Individual schools are not inherently encyclopedic and there is nothing to distinguish insignificant schools like this one from thousands of nearly identical schools around the world. Gamaliel 03:38, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. I added a little to the page. Hopefully someone who is more familiar with the school will beef it up. DS1953 03:46, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. This school is ranked #581 on Newsweek's list of the Best High Schools in America. -- BD2412 ^thimkact 03:49, 2005 May 17 (UTC)
• Keep, verifiable - SimonP 04:00, May 17, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete unless wikipedia wants a boring, pointless article for every average school in every country. CDThieme
• Keep schools. Frustrating anyone who spams the VfD pages is merely a pleasant side effect. Stop wasting our time so we can add content. First, preserve knowledge. Second, increase knowledge. --Unfocused 04:50, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Verifiable (I've even seen the place), reasonable topic. Kelly Martin 05:09, May 17, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Instutional vanity. Wikipedia is not a trivia collection. Gmaxwell 05:24, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Unencyclopædic. --Swift 05:48, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• Merge into Lake Country, Illinois and delete - Skysmith 09:43, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, unencyclopedic schoolcruft/vanity. Master Thief Garrett 11:12, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• delete pitifully unnotable. Dunc|☺ 12:29, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• keep Lotsofissues 13:59, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, nn. Radiant_* 14:35, May 17, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep schools in wikipedia. --Howrealisreal 15:02, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete not notable CDC (talk) 18:26, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, seems to have expanded nicely. It's a shame it takes a VfD listing for expansion to occur, but that's life. JYolkowski // talk 20:52, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Notability is still not a listed deletion criterion - David Gerard 22:41, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• Clear case of deletion BrokenSegue 00:23, 18 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Clear cut case of inclusion. —RaD Man (talk) 07:51, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep All schools are notable by nature. Verifiable and NPOV. Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia, ergo it is encyclopaedic. User:GRider/Schoolwatch Klonimus 13:27, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Sholtar 13:29, May 19, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. (1)We don't even have a policy about schools yet, (2)schools are important and should be included, (3)this massive deletion campaign is terrible. Introduce a limit of 3 vfd nominations per day. Visit Project Schoolwatch. --Zantastik 22:29, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, nice article, verifiable, important topic. Kappa 22:18, 21 May 2005 (UTC)

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