Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/McKinney Boyd High School

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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 11:41, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] McKinney Boyd High School

McKinney Boyd High School (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Non-notable public high school likely created by a student (see discussion page). Delete Soltak | Talk 00:41, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

  • Merge into McKinney Independent School District. I removed most of the article since it was name-dropping, empty sections, or a record of school sports. WP:NOT a free webhost. --Wafulz 00:56, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete There's not anything notable to merge - the McKinney, Texas article actually has more notable information on the school than the school's article did, or than the school district article does. What's the policy on school districts? Are they automatically notable like towns? Or do they have to prove notability like schools? Also note the district article has a link to Johnson Elementary, which is actually a school in Michigan, not Texas. Lyrl Talk C 01:01, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom. Non-notable. Bigtop 01:08, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep - this article is just a few days old and should be given chance to develop and not strangled at birth. Though this is a new school, it is already achieving notable results academically and in sports. TerriersFan 01:53, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep or Merge. The article is total bollocks now but could be something decent if some others were to get involved. As above, article was just created so a delete seems hasty; a redirect is a perhaps a decent intermediate solution. Mystache 02:00, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Merge as per Wafulz. Chairman S. Talk Contribs 02:13, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Redirect to the district article per Wafulz. Nothing of note to see here, folks. -- Kicking222 02:17, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete or Merge/Redirect per nom. TJ Spyke 04:39, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep Seems notable. --Meno25 06:16, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep rewritten version, now asserts notability. BryanG(talk) 06:32, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep. Fix instead of listing here. And all schools are "notable". Let's not do this again. Grace Note 07:41, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
    • Bullshit. That argument is NOT valid and not true. Schools are NOT inherently notable, they have to proove why they are notable. TJ Spyke 00:50, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
      • Regardless of what your personal opinions are on schools being inherently notable or not, this one just happens to be notable. Please do not use disruptive language in an AFD. Zadernet 04:25, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep Sourced, encyclopedic, keeps with precedents WilyD 16:29, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep What's wrong with a school having an article? --Lee Vonce 17:30, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep Keep per WilyD. --Falcorian (talk) 19:35, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep — Meets my personal criteria for high school notability. :-) — RJH (talk) 21:27, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Strong Delete Fails my notability guidelines for schools. --Sir James Paul, La gloria è a dio 22:44, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep - Schools are generally notable for inclusion. --ZimZalaBim (talk) 23:08, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
    • No they aren't, schools are not inherently notable. TJ Spyke 00:50, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
      • I didn't say "inherently," I said "generally." And this one seems to fit the bill. --ZimZalaBim (talk) 01:48, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep - Notability demonstrated by marching band award referenced in article (thus meeting proposed guideline WP:SCHOOL. Also per notability: the districting plan that created the school is discussed in this Dallas Morning News article. Google News also turns up many other articles on the districting plan, as well as the school's sports. schi talk 23:43, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep. Notability of this school is demonstrated through multiple non-trivial sources, meets all proposed school guidelines. Silensor 03:06, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep Like many others have noted, this article should be given a chance to develop more. It's as simple as that. If it's still a fluke in one to two weeks or so, then I recommend a merge. In terms of notability, Boyd qualifies for several valid reasons already mentioned, including it's numerous press references, attention, relative size (biggest nationally almost), band, and the like. Finally, seeing as McKinney is apparantly the fastest growing city in the nation, I'd expect it's three high schools to be covered in some detail. And Soltak, it makes absolutely no differences whatsoever WHO wrote it. It could be a dog for all anyone cares. The important thing is the relevance, accuracy, and contribution it makes to Wikipedia as a whole. For that reason, I question you motives behind even mentioning your theories on the author. Andrewtheart 04:26, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Weak Keep Article referenced using reliable sources, but would benefit greatly from expansion and addition of more references. Alansohn 08:34, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
  • keep please this is a decent article and has plenty of sources too Yuckfoo 09:52, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep I agree with Andrewtheheart and and the other keep-sayers. This article needs a chance to develop more. I didn't intentionly post the rosters for name-dropping reasons, although i didn't know that you weren't able to post records, I guess I could have just put "The Football Team experienced an unsuccessful first season, with not a single win." And yes Soltak, I'm a student that attends MBHS. The last time I checked it wasn't against the rules for students to create/edit articles here on wikipedia or to be bold in editting. For those of you that don't know, a marching band that made sweeptakes at UIL and advanced to the finals at the Denton Golden Triangle its first year is a very difficult task to accomplish, thus making the band alone notable enough to have its own article. This School is also making tremendous progress in the academic field and in its extracurricular programs. The only reason you saw blank sections is because I was on break when I created this and therefore was not able to get citable information from the club sponsors themselves. I say give this article some time, and it will expand enough to become worthy enough to be on Wikipedia. Zadernet 10:34, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep. High school. Herostratus 05:00, 10 January 2007 (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.