Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Walker 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, you've got your citations now. — CharlotteWebb 00:39, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Walker School

Does not assert any notability. Statements are more like an advertisement unless citations are produced

Weak keep - "The school ranks as one of the state's top private schools" sounds like an assertion of notability to me. However, it is an assertion that definitely needs to be sourced if the article is to be a clear keeper. Essentially, what we have is a stub article that needs a lot of clean up... I agree that it does read like an advertisement at the moment. Re-nominate in a few months time if no work is done to improve the article. Blueboar 17:25, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

• Delete. Reads like self promotion article. Being one of the states top private schools is an assertion of notability that is not supported. Maybe they are the last on a list of 25 schools and I'm not sure that would be notable. The other option is to merge into the town article. The current lack of references says it should not be kept at this time. Vegaswikian 21:30, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached
 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, WjBscribe 23:11, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

• Keep Additional material added through brief research found strong claims of notability as a multi-year award-winner from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association for its school student magazine, as well as other notable awards won by students. A Google News search using "Walker School" AND Marietta found 468 separate articles, an excllent source of evidence of notability to be researched further. Alansohn 01:34, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
• Keep Many high schools are notable, if people look carefully. DGG 02:54, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

• Comment I'm pretty sure having to look carefully is pretty much a good sign of non-notability! Coren 22:21, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

apologies if I wasn't clear, but I meant: if people do a thorough and careful job of looking for sources, rather than treat sourcing n a casual and cavalier manner as unfortunately is the case with many articles on schools. DGG 01:52, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

• Delete per WP:N. While the school's magazine may merit an article, as might certain of its current and former students, the school itself has not been shown to be notable. I might change my !vote if the statement "The school ranks as one of the state's top private schools year after year." can be properly sourced, depending on who is doing the ranking. --Butseriouslyfolks 04:32, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
• Delete as non-notable school per the arguments laid out against most schools at the discussion at WP:SCHOOLS and elsewhere. Eusebeus 06:02, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
• Keep. The school holds notability from the students and magazine. Sr13 (T|C) ^ER 06:25, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
• Keep Article has improved a lot since nom. I think it's OK now. ~ G1ggy! _{...chatterbox...} 09:41, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
• keep if the notability claims can be sourced. WilliamKF 20:28, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
• Delete - The awards and notabilities listed in the article are for the school magazine, and former students; not the school itself. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Ibanix (talk • contribs) 20:57, 1 May 2007 (UTC).
• Keep - faculty+students+activities=school. A school is the sum of its parts; if several of its parts are notable then so is the school. The test for keeping any such article is - is there notable, sourced, encyclopaedic content?; and here there is. TerriersFan 02:35, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
• Keep. Current version establishes notability in a verifiable fashion. RFerreira 05:53, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
• Keep - This article needs a lot of work done to it, but the current version is referenced and does appear to establish notability. Camaron1 | Chris 10:47, 6 May 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.