Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pine Lake Middle School

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. @pple complain 14:26, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pine Lake Middle School

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Non-notable school. Eyu100^{(t|fr|Version 1.0 Editorial Team)} 23:58, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

• Delete - I am somewhat split on the notability of school articles, but this article does not seem to meet notability requirements, and the lack of reliable sources means that we could say little of interest about it.--Danaman5 00:06, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
• Speedy Delete - looks like it was written by student or faculty, WP:OR and WP:N voilations. OSborn^arf 00:29, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

update - also probable WP:COI; I quote: "The two schools are almost always inadvertently competing with each other. There is a lot of school spirit from the students and even from the staff here." (emphasis mine) If indeed notable, article would require a complete rewrite. OSborn^arf 01:26, 25 September 2007 (UTC) See below

• Delete No particular notability--but not a speedy--schools not speedy for notability, and OR not a reason for speedy. —Preceding unsigned comment added by DGG (talk • contribs)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletions. —Noroton 01:22, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
• Keep Having been recognized by the Blue Ribbon Schools Program almost exactly one year ago, one of only two middle schools in the state to be honored in 2006, the school -- and the article -- has a strong claim of notability. The potential COI text was deleted with a click of the mouse. Alansohn 03:28, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. CRGreathouse (t | c) 13:11, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
• Keep Alansohn's WP:HEY improvements have erased the COI, notability, and OR objections. There is no longer any policy reason to delete. Noroton 01:27, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
• Changed to Neutral Still possible WP:N issues (is that award so prestiges?) OSborn^arf 02:01, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
• Delete Per Nom. Twenty Years 14:52, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
• Keep per Alansohn - now I'm familiar with the Blue Ribbon argument. Although expansion is definitely needed.--JForget 23:38, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
• Delete The award doesn't imo confer significant notability, over 80 schools in the state have received the award at some point according to the pdf referred from the article. DMcMPO11AAUK/Talk/Contribs 14:48, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
• Massively upgraded article in addition to Alansohn's improvements, I've just made numerous additions to the page, adding many sources, including sources with significant covearage (Seattle Times profile of the school for one) which allow the article to easily meet the notability standards of WP:Notability and WP:ORG.Noroton 20:26, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

My additions bring the length of the article from 3.2 KB to 8.9 KB, close to triple its previous size. Noroton 20:31, 29 September 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.