Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/High school subcultures (2nd nomination)

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. - Mailer Diablo 12:58, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] High school subcultures

Prod'd, but obviously needs a wider audience for deletion decision. UtherSRG (talk) 16:09, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

• Keep I'm really uncomfortable with deleting an article with all of those sources cited, even if I can't check them right away. The reason given for prodding, that it 'may not represent a worldwide view', also seems inapproriate to me. It seems to imply that we can't write about a subject that applies to only one country. UtherSRG did the right thing bringing it here. -- Donald Albury 19:44, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
• Conditional Keep The article has a number of notes and references at the end, but they are not tied to the statements in the article as footnotes. Please see an article which uses footnotes and place references in the text so a reader can tell which reference is supposed to substantiate which statement in the text. Otherwise there is a huge task for the reader which should have been done by the editor. Edison 21:21, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per the above. Cynical 21:53, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
• Strong Cleanup The references are wonderful, and would make a strong framework to an article about perceptions of high school age cliques and stereotypes. This article is not that though, failing NPOV with almost every sentence. This needs peer review by some sociologists. -Markeer 22:35, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep and rewrite as above. This article would be much better of it was rewritten to NPOV and included some other countries. Beno1000 19:43, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep unconditionally. I agree with Edison, though, that the references should be tied to statements in the article itself. Before the article was completely overhauled (it was about ten times this long), this was the case to my recollection. The references still seem pertinent for the most part, but do need to be tied into the statements. --Czj 09:53, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Needs work, but its legitimacy is beyond dispute imo. Merchbow 15:53, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep but, agreed, it does need some work Michaelritchie200 16:18, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep', plenty of sources. Andman8 20:11, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep and Complete Rewrite, this information doesn't belong in wikipedia, if there is going to be a page titled High School Subcultures, it should DEFINE what a high school subculture is an explain on that subject only. Lordofchaosiori 06:34, 19 October 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.