Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lake Zurich High School

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The result of the debate was delete. ugen64 23:47, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Lake Zurich High School

Non-notable high school, most of entry seems to be copyvio from the external link. Teslacoil 04:30, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)

• Keep, I mean, its not like its really hurting anyone. I say if it really bugs people that much then leave it for a month or so and see if it grows. If it does, leave it, if it doesn't, delete it. falcon34 10:12, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, unless a SUBSTANTIAL rewrite is done. Whoever does that can contact me on my talk page, and I'll change my vote accordingly. I mean, come on: Lake Zurich High School is Lake Zurich's public high school tells me absolutely nothing, like Lake Zurich, ________? Mike H 04:38, Mar 10, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Seems like a pretty run-of-the-mill high school. Article also has some copyvio problems. DaveTheRed 05:33, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Delete for reasons stated. Any reason this can't be flagged as a copyvio right away? - Lucky 6.9 06:19, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a directory. Nothing here of note. Gamaliel 07:19, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Nothing but a statement of location and list of staff. The Lake Zurich article already states that it has a school. (Note - I've delinked the school names in the Lake Zurich, Illinois article, so if this should be improved and survive VfD then the link to the high school needs to be reinstated). Average Earthman 10:24, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and expand. Nice picture. Kappa 11:32, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Delete as per Earthman. Radiant! 12:30, Mar 10, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, but the image could be useful in Lake Zurich, Illinois. What's the procedure for unsourced images? Doesn't appear to be online, or at least Google and their official site don't have it. I've exported it to the town's article pending resolution. Meelar (talk) 16:17, Mar 10, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, Wikipedia is not a directory. I like the picture, it's a nice addition to the article on Lake Zurich, Illinois. I hope licensing issues for the picture can be resolved. Dpbsmith (talk) 17:31, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. --Ryan! | Talk 19:26, Mar 10, 2005 (UTC)
  • Why? The article as it is gives no evidence for verifying, and no-one has found any. Do you have any evidence, or are you just voting keep to everything as a matter of principle? Average Earthman 10:25, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Yet another instance of the non-notable secondary school. If someone wants to create an article about the school district and place relevant school data into a table on that article is one thing. To bog Wikipedia down with another article with a rundown of vital stats of another average high school is silly. Arkyan 20:27, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Not sufficiently notable. Jonathunder 23:23, 2005 Mar 10 (UTC)
• Keep. Nomination doesn't meet deletion criteria.--Gene_poole 00:41, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • "No potential to become encyclopedic" is listed as a deletion criteria. Gamaliel 01:59, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)
    • In light of your commnt, permit me to repeat myself: the nomination doesn't meet deletion criteria.--Gene_poole 03:53, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• keep this please. Yuckfoo 00:57, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Not notable, not useful, not likely to be expanded. -Aranel ("Sarah") 03:05, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. No potential to become encyclopedic. Jayjg ^(talk) 03:38, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. No long list of famous alumni, no big controversies, no other reason why it should be in the news; therefore, non-notable. --Idont Havaname 06:06, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Abstain unless there's actually content in the article. --Andylkl 19:23, Mar 11, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. I've added a stub label which I believe is merited here, as well as a schools' Template which I'm currently trialling.

This page contains enough data about the school to merit its incusion in Wikipedia as a stub. The stub label is there as an invite to any Wikipedian from the local community or the school who knows more about the school than is on the website to update the page using their personal expertise (there is at least one Wikipedian from this school, User:Mathwizxp, I have asked him to inprove this article). It is not correct to delete articles just because they are currently stubs, this appears to be a summary of all the arguments to delete this page.

I would invite Wikipedians voting on this, and all schools in VfD to look at the many succesful school articles on Wikipedia to see what can be achieved. An example quite close to home for me is the development of Adams' Grammar School--LukeSurl 22:33, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)

• Delete, not notable. Lacrimosus 02:13, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Delete this timewasting generic template crap. I don't have a bias against articles on high schools, but I have a strong view against articles that consiste mostly of unfilled in template with no indication of why anyone should care. -- Jmabel | Talk 07:52, Mar 15, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete no evidence of encyclopedic content. CDC (talk) 23:03, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Non-notable. --A D Monroe III 23:29, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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