Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Westlake Featherduster

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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 Merge to Westlake High School (Texas). Yomanganitalk 00:24, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Westlake Featherduster

Fails AfD precedents and more or less fails WP:V. The only verifiable part of the article is part of the list of awards and the "founded in" date. Is that really an encyclopedic article or just a school newspaper's homepage? Seidenstud 07:58, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

  • keep. Multi-award winning school newspaper with national recognition, easily verified with a ten second google search. Columbia University verification is in the very first google hit. Nominator confuses "needs expansion" with "needs deletion". Unfocused 08:06, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
    • Comment Is that vote a f***ing joke? And yes, I said "vote". -- Kicking222 01:28, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
      • What do you find funny about it? Please be more civil in your reply. Unfocused 01:33, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Speedy delete in its current form, if I was looking at the article without having looked at this AfD first I swear I'd have totally no idea what/who "Westlake Featherduster" is/was. If this is indeed a major school paper, it needs cleanup before AfD closes. Otherwise delete. Kavadi carrier 08:12, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
Added content, no longer appropriate for speedy under A-1. Unfocused 08:51, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
  • In that case, I'd choose to merge to Westlake High School (Texas) instead. There's not much else about the newspaper itself other than the mentions of awards, but including this information within the parent school's article will give it more context. Right now all that the independent sources say about this paper is that it has won awards by the boatload. Nothing more. The section about the editors is OR as far as I can tell. Kavadi carrier 12:03, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Speedy delete as lacking context per Kavadi carrier. So tagged. MER-C 08:44, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Merge per above. MER-C 12:35, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete or merge, but in no way should it be its own article. Not now, not ever. -- Kicking222 01:28, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Merge The impressive list of awards suggests it's noteworthy, but if there's nothing more to say about it than "It's the student newspaper of Westlake and it's won lots of awards," I think that's better used to expand the school article rather than to start a new one. If there is more to say about it, in the vein of the Berkeley High Jacket, that's another matter, but I suspect few high school papers have sufficient impact outside of their respective schools to warrant an encyclopedia article. Shimeru 07:51, 5 November 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.