Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Southwood Middle 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 00:06, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Southwood Middle School

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non notable middle school. middle schools do not generally have inherent notability, and this one only has light assertions of notability (otherwise it would be speedied). ⇒ SWATJester Denny Crane. 01:26, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

  • Delete - WP is not a directory (of middle schools) Corpx 04:06, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

*Merge into school district per established precedent. TerriersFan 21:27, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

  • Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletions. —TerriersFan 21:27, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep - the fact that a student was murdered there (which made the news, The Miami Herald, and so forth) makes it notable. Stop trying to cause trouble and just leave the article be. And whoever deleted the information about the stabbing should put it back and actually go and see that there are multiple sources (like I said, The Miami Herald is a main one) covering the incident. Tamajared 23:21, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep - thanks for spotting this. The controversy was deleted by the AfD nominator which is very bad form. I have put it back since it is readily sourceable here. I don't have time to source it tonight but will tomorrow. TerriersFan 23:39, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep because the murder makes it notable. Under very, very strong Wikipedia policy, the article CANNOT mention the person accused of the murder without full citations and there are none that I can see in the article, so I'm deleting it. I think this article shold be kept, but I've also just created List of middle schools in Miami-Dade County and put information from this article into it. Noroton 01:24, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep The school received widespread national (and international) news coverage both for the murder and for the school's efforts in the aftermath of the incident to focus on the issue of school violence. All of this is supported with multiple reliable and verifiable sources (no need to bother TerriersFan, I was up very late) to satisfy the Wikipedia:Notability standard. Alansohn 06:52, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep per Alansohn and similar comments above, WP:NOTE is met and exceeded here. Burntsauce 17:55, 9 August 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.