Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lincoln High School (Sioux Falls)

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The result of the debate was Keep, as the nomination was withdrawn by David McCabe.--Chaser (T) 02:22, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Lincoln High School (Sioux Falls)

Non-encyclopedic; copy and pasted from school's official documents; copyright violation; no salvageable content; author apparently offline; proposed deletion was disputed. David McCabe 03:07, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

• If it is a copyvio, list it as one.--Peta 03:16, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
• Comment Ditto as per Petaholmes. It seems that all high schools are OK, sad to say. Ted 04:09, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
• Sorry, copyvio has to be from a commercial website, not a HS or a HS district website. Public schools are creatures of state law, and are thus basically governmental organizations and cannot hold copyrights to anything. No matter my views on it, WP consensus is that all HS's are notable. I have removed the inappropriate info and turned it into a proper stub. In current form, Keep - CrazyRussian talk/contribs/email 04:22, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
• Sorry, all copyvios regardless of the source have to be deleted from the articles history.--Peta 09:24, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

• • Generally cleanup issues are never grounds for deletion. Ditto here. - CrazyRussian talk/contribs/email 04:22, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
  • No, that's not the case. {{db-copyvio}} is limited to commercial content. But {{copyvio}} can be used for any copyright violations. School web sites are copyrighted in almost all cases. The fact its government, is irreelevant *unless* it is the U.S. *federal* government. State and local governments definately do hold copyrights to things, and your view on the law is mistaken. It would have been best to close the AFD, delete the copyvio, and then, if anybody wished, make a proper article. We should not keep copyvio in history. Of course, if done without copyvio, I fully support an article on the school --Rob 04:28, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep but replace the copyvio text with original (or PD) work. jgp 05:17, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per last change.Chaser (T) 08:14, 26 May 2006 (UTC) Weak delete I found the school's website and deleted the sentence copied from there. It's even stubbier now. To my knowledge, keeping high schools is not policy per se, though it does have 2,000 students.--Chaser (T) 07:43, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep - Since it's not a copyvio anymore it should now be kept per well established precedent (see Wikipedia:Watch/schoolwatch/Schools for deletion archive). Although an admin may wish to selectively delete the old version. In future copyvios should be handled with the {{copyvio}} tag, not the {{afd}} tag. --Rob 08:19, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing that out. I suggested a change in wording here.-Chaser (T)

• Keep and thanks for cleaning up the copyvio. — RJH (talk) 14:11, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, I guess. Thanks for writing the stub. A lot of concern here seems to be about the copyright violation, but my main concern was no salvageable content. I guess there's no harm in keep a stub, though, so if it's convention, keep. Thanks again. David McCabe 00:40, 27 May 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.