Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bridgeport 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 keep; although I can understand the reasoning for the nomination five days ago, since it was AfD-ed, two of the high schools' articles have been created, so it is a plausible dab page now. Daniel.Bryant [ T · C ] 04:33, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bridgeport High School

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Through Special:Random I found this disambiguation page which consists solely of red links. Somehow, I don't think we need a page for a list of links to non-existant pages. —Řÿūłóñģ (竜龍) 08:05, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

  • Delete Keep Doesn't follow conventions established at Wikipedia:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages)#Individual entries, nor can this article in itself ever do so. Possible violation of WP:NOT#IINFO. Gracenotes T § 08:14, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
    Alansohn created Bridgeport High School (West Virginia), a seemingly notable high school. If this trend (hopefully) continues, this page will be required. Thanks, Alansohn. (Note: perhaps not all of the schools on this page are notable; this shall be left to the discretion of those analyzing them.)
    Also, please note that the WP:MOS issues had to do specifically with the existence of articles, thus making them relevant to this discussion. If a disambig page doesn't "act" like a disambig page, there's no use keeping it. Gracenotes T § 04:33, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete the phrase "Bridgeport High School" occurs 30x in en.wiki - and none of them gives notability for their high schools. SkierRMH,08:35, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
    • Comment At least one of the existing Wikipedia references made an explicit claim of notability for a Bridgeport High School. I created the article Bridgeport High School (West Virginia), which makes a few claims of notability and provides at least one blue link here at this disambiguation page. Alansohn 00:54, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete per above. MER-C 08:50, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Weak Delete I could see the logic if some of the school articles existed, but currently none do. TSO1D 14:45, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
Changed to Weak Keep I agree some of these articles will probably be created one day. TSO1D 00:21, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep - given the trend to finding high schools notable, I suspect that in a few years these articles will exist, and why should anyone have to do this work again? Newyorkbrad 19:13, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
    Comment: It's a disambiguation page that links nowhere. While high schools may be notable, a list of high schools that don't have articles is something else entirely.—Řÿūłóñģ (竜龍) 22:07, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
    Comment There is no such trend. Quite the opposite in fact- the last few months have seen highschools being deleted in a variety of cases. JoshuaZ 06:49, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep Sooner or later, one of these high school articles will be created, and it will be incredibly helpful to have this article serve as a placeholder to allow these articles to be predisambiguated. This will prevent the mass confusion of using "Bridgeport High School" as a title and then being forced to rename it when a second "Bridgeport High School" article is created. The argument that anyone can determine that not a single one of these schools will ever be able to demonstrate notability is patently ludicrous on its face. And if folks likes User:Gracenotes are bothered by WP:MOS issues, the solution is to fix them; not to use it as a poor excuse for deleting an article. Alansohn 23:08, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep I strongly dislike the "all schools are notable" or similar nonsense but this would be useful at minimum just having redirect to the various school districts that contain the relevant schools. And since one of the schools at this point is not a redlink and has clear notability I think it is easy to justify keeping at this point JoshuaZ 06:49, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep — One link now exists; likely others will as well. (Rolling eyes at the usual school article-related rhetoric. :-) — RJH (talk) 21:19, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep. Useful as a disambiguation page, not sure why we would ever want to delete this. Silensor 05:33, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
  • keep If it had no blue links, then I would have said delete. And, Alansohn's H.S. actually is notable--site of a notable civil liberties controversy--although, Alansohn, I would still try to scare up some notable alumni.DGG 06:01, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
    • Sorry, it's the best I could come up with in 20 minutes on a Saturday night. And there are so many of those darned Bridgeport High Schools out there, which makes it incredibly difficult to match up alumni to schools. If only there was an organized list of all of the Bridgeport High Schools -- maybe even with their locations -- it would be so much easier to fulfill this request... Alansohn 06:16, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep. Not very useful now, but will be someday when more of the school pages exist. Gdavidp 07:35, 13 December 2006 (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.