Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Clairemont High School

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The result of the debate was - kept - SimonP 02:30, May 23, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Clairemont High School

Non-notable, no context. Delete. Neutrality^talk 04:34, May 17, 2005 (UTC)

• "It hasn't won any major academic awards. The last time the football team won CIF was in 1981." In other words, nothing special. Unless WP wants a pointless stub for every run of the mill school on the planet, delete. CDThieme
• Delete for now. Substub, school not adequately identified. Keep if this is remedied. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 05:08, 17 May 2005 (UTC)Keep. Good stub. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 14:54, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, article establishes non-notability. Gazpacho 05:21, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and expand. Will do this myself, as soon as time permits. Posting scores of schools up for deletion on the same day does nothing to help Wikipedia. The baby is likely to go out with the dishwater in this fashion. --BaronLarf 05:23, May 17, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep awaiting expansion/context from BaronLarf. Kappa 06:05, 17 May 2005 (UTC)

  By all means, don't wait for me; feel free to add something yourself.  :^) --BaronLarf 06:08, May 17, 2005 (UTC)

• Delete Instutional Vanity. Wikipedia isn't a triviabase Gmaxwell 06:29, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, if I came across this via Special:Randompage I wouldn't say "hmmmm!" I'd say "boring!". It has to win the casual reader over, to prove it is interesting and notable. Master Thief Garrett 11:16, 17 May 2005 (UTC) Merge anything salvagable into Schools in (regionhere), and Delete. Master Thief Garrett 00:24, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
  • An article being interesting has nothing to do with it being encyclopedic. Articles on towns aren't particularly interesting but are encyclopedic and there's a lot of interesting stuff with no business in an encyclopedia R Calvete 19:27, 2005 May 17 (UTC)
  • I've gotta say it's depressing that practically all deletionism seems to be driven by the desire to impress/entertain random page users. Kappa 19:30, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• Merge into San Diego, California and delete - Skysmith 09:17, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep schools. Verifiable and NPOV. Schools are perfect for involving new Wikipedians. First, preserve knowledge, then expand knowledge. Thanks to Neutrality, I've had no time for adding content today. --Unfocused 12:17, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep.JuntungWu 12:41, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Subject should be verifiable. - SimonP 13:25, May 17, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Encyclopedic, verifiable and NPOV. Meets all agreed-upon Wikipedia standards. Like some others, I will be copy-pasting this to all the high school votes since Neutrality seems to have mass-suggested articles for VfD simply because of a POV judgment of their subject--Cynical 13:37, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. This school is ranked #848 on Newsweek's list of the Best High Schools in America. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by BD2412 (talk • contribs) 14:00 UTC, 17 May 2005.
  • D'oh!!! (smacks own forehead for forgetting to sign). -- BD2412 ^talk 00:12, 2005 May 18 (UTC)
• Keep this fine little article Lupin 14:18, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep schools in wikipedia. --Howrealisreal 14:57, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, vanity. Radiant_* 15:01, May 17, 2005 (UTC)
• As CDThieme says, Delete unless Wikipedia wants a short, pointless article for every run of the mill school on the planet.--Mitsukai 15:12, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• Merge/Consolidate into an article on the local school district. — RJH 15:35, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• Comment: For those looking for notability, this is the school that Cameron Crowe went to undercover in the early 1980s before he wrote Fast Times at Ridgemont High, a blockbuster movie. [1] --BaronLarf 16:17, May 17, 2005 (UTC)
  • Fascinating, but, um, yeah, still doesn't sway me, one man can't hold the notability of a school he attended alongside thousands of others over the decades. If he *wrote* or *filmed* it there, now we're talkin'! Master Thief Garrett 16:26, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
    • I think going undercover to research it is more notable and interesting that writing it there. Kappa 19:06, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep -- Longhair | Talk 16:58, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep especially notable. R Calvete 19:25, 2005 May 17 (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 20:19, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep the schoolcruft. Ketsuban has spoken. The debate is over. 21:03, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Notability is still not a listed deletion criterion - David Gerard 23:13, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep There are so many schools in Wikipedia already, it's pointless to exclude some of them when we obviously aren't going to exclude all of them. I wish people would stop posting these to VFD. Right are wrong, schools are clearly a part of Wikipedia. Posting long list of schools to VFD is just cluttering up the page uselessly.--Heathcliff 23:15, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Non-notable. Quale 23:41, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep as with others. Christopher Parham 00:47, 2005 May 18 (UTC)
• Keep per my school article policy. Kelly Martin 01:51, May 18, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Trivia, no apparent possibility of becoming noteworthy. If delete fails, merge as above. Jayjg ^(talk) 21:53, 18 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Clairemont High School but delete this ridiculious campaign against school articles! This was ranked as one of the U.S.' best schools, and even if it weren't, schools are notable. If that weren't enough, notability isn't even a criterion for deletion! Visit Schoolwatch for a list of all the school vfd votes currently in progress. --Zantastik 03:00, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
  • More to the point, visit Wikipedia:Schools and make your voice be heard THERE instead of opposing each school Vfd as if it's an "ethical" debate. Thank you. Master Thief Garrett 03:26, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
• Obvious keep and expand. Bad faith nominat(or|ion). —RaD Man (talk) 07:35, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, need expansion. -- Lochaber 17:25, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep This campaign is spitting in the face of Wikipedians. We should be writing articles, not making dozens of edits to deal with one point. Selfish, selfish nominator. CalJW 18:26, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete = not notable. NoAccount 02:51, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Your account is 3 days old, that's notable. —RaD Man (talk) 03:05, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep schools in wikipedia. -dozenist 05:30, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Notable school worthy of inclusion. User:GRider/Schoolwatch Klonimus 23:31, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

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