Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fox Lane High School 2

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The result of the debate was - kept - SimonP 03:03, May 23, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Fox Lane High School 2

Non-notable; delete. Neutrality^talk 21:37, May 17, 2005 (UTC)

• Keep. This school is ranked #274 on Newsweek's list of the Best High Schools in America. -- BD2412 ^talk 23:07, 2005 May 17 (UTC)
• Delete. Non-notable even if only 273 U.S. high schools are better. I question the value of Newsweek's list anyway. A Florida school on VfD was also ranked, but the WP article notes that the school has below average graduation rate and SAT scores. What the heck is Newsweek scoring the schools on? Quale 00:10, 18 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Read the article - some formula based on the number of AP/IB credits earned per graduate, and taking into account the poverty level as determined by the number of students who qualify for free lunches. Anyway, this site says that there are "22,000 plus high schools in the United States", so this one is in the top 1.5%. Unlike some of my colleagues here, I do not believe that every high school is notable - but I think the ones on the Newsweek list - which covers about the top 5% ranked by some empirical method - certainly are. -- BD2412 ^talk 02:50, 2005 May 18 (UTC)
    • Clearly I disagree about the value of the Newsweek list, which is just a point in time measure in any case. It certainly provides no historical perspective on a school. Anyway, if you don't think that every high school is notable, have you voted delete on any of them? Just wondering. Quale 15:37, 18 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep as with others. Christopher Parham 00:30, 2005 May 18 (UTC)
• Keep. Good stub, verifiable. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 00:45, 18 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and expand when we get through we the other 50 schools on VfD. This survived a VfD once before. Why go through this all over again? Let's work for a compromise on Wikipedia:Schools. --BaronLarf 01:39, May 18, 2005 (UTC)
• Merge into Bedford (town), New York per my school article policy. Kelly Martin 02:35, May 18, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep - I agree that not every high school in America should have an article. However, being one of the top schools in the country in a ranking by a national newsmagazine is notable. Hopefully people will start expanding these stubs. DS1953 03:49, 18 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, important topic. Kappa 07:24, 18 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, WP:VAIN. Radiant_* 08:54, May 18, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep - Lupin 13:50, 18 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Verifiable and NPOV. Schools are an excellent entry point for new Wikipedians. VfD spamming must have NO reward. --Unfocused 14:32, 18 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, useless vain zombie article IMHO. Master Thief Garrett 03:17, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Ranking as one of the top 1.3% of all high schools in the United States surely establishes notability. Ari Fleischer, former press secretary to the President of the United States is an alumnus. Bahn Mi 18:51, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Introduce a limit of 3 nominations per day. CalJW 18:53, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete = not notable. NoAccount 02:59, 20 May 2005 (UTC)

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