Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Winter Springs High School

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The result of the debate was - kept - SimonP 14:59, May 21, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Winter Springs High School

Non-notable, delete. Neutrality^talk 16:26, May 15, 2005 (UTC)

• Keep. Verifiable and NPOV. DoubleBlue (Talk) 16:34, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep I have come round to the view that all secondary schools are inherently encyclopedic, Wikipedia is not paper. This may seem a rather drastic inclusionist view, I am not always a drastic inclusionist, but it does encourage young people to get involved in the Wikipedia project. PatGallacher 17:21, 2005 May 15 (UTC)
• Delete. Non-notable secondary school. Quale 17:29, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. ✏ OvenFresh² 18:15, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Non-notable secondary school. --Modi 18:20, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. As mentioned above, definately non-notable (unless some evidence of notability is provided, of course.) Young people have many more ways to get involved in Wikipedia other than touting their own schools.Shutranm 18:59, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
  • The natural thing for many young people is to look up their school, and create an article for it if it doesn't exist. If they then find it gets deleted, it might not give them a warm impression of WP. Kappa 22:19, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
    • Young people also create articles about the bands that they and their friends play in in their basements. Your "give the young people a warm impression" argument applies equally to keeping articles on such bands. Uncle G 02:32, 2005 May 17 (UTC)
      • So it does, but unfortunately those bands are not verifiable or important. Kappa 22:27, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
• delete. Not notable. Dunc|☺ 19:30, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Proof of existence is not proof of notability. Mackensen (talk) 20:17, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep per PatGallacher Kappa 20:19, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete absent indication of notability and merge info to location. Gazpacho 21:25, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, verifiable - SimonP 21:32, May 15, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, notability not established. ESkog 22:15, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep -- Longhair | Talk 22:31, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Verifiable, NPOV, reasonable topic. Kelly Martin 22:32, May 15, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, until Wikipedia starts running out of space. -- BD2412 ^thimkact 22:57, 2005 May 15 (UTC)
• Delete Instutional vanity page. Gmaxwell 00:45, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. As noted by others above fits the criteria put up by Jimbo Wales for keeping an article on Wikipedia: verifiable & NPOV --AYArktos 00:46, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep high schools. R Calvete 02:09, 2005 May 16 (UTC)
• Keep schools. --Unfocused 03:41, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete since it does not appear to be noteable. This nomination points out the need to get some kind of a policy to deal with all of these schools. Earlier today someone started posting a bunch of schools because they claimed that all schools are now acceptable. Notability was established in one article by listing someone's user page. As a short term solution can these be put into a category while a policy is created? At a minimum they should all have a complete info box and the school district and town links should work. Vegaswikian 05:30, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. The second in a series of robotic listings for deletion by the same editor. I am utterly mindboggled by this strange, oddly savage campaign --Tony Sidaway|Talk 06:02, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Useless collection of generic facts about an insignificant school. This is not an encyclopedia article. Individual schools are not inherently encyclopedic and there is nothing to distinguish insignificant schools like this one from thousands of nearly identical schools around the world. Gamaliel 07:08, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
• Merge into Winter Springs, Florida and delete - Skysmith 09:00, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, needs expansion. -- Lochaber 12:26, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Yeah, yeah! You could write how big its gym is, and how many classrooms it has, and who the dinner lady is and whether she washes her hands or not after she goes for a shit. And take up 32kb with such garbage! Expand?!? anyone who votes keep needs their heads expanding! Fucking hell. Kill All School Stubbs 15:00, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
• Merge with Winter Springs, Florida. --Carnildo 17:56, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Please stop wasting time and contribute to Wikipedia instead. Oliver Chettle 19:18, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
• How can people be voting delete??? If the Florida Department of Education had rated the school a "C" since its opening, maybe I could understand it, but it has rated it as either an "A" or a "B"!!! Obviously a truly noteworthy school!!! And the sports teams are named "Bears"; why, they're probably the only school in the country who has thought of such an inventive name. Oh, and delete. Jayjg ^(talk) 19:30, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
  • I find your reasoning amusing but not particularly persuasive. Kappa 21:39, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
    • No-one is here to be persuaded. All we have left is amusement, such as it is. Jayjg ^(talk) 21:52, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
      • Heheh fair enough. Kappa 23:48, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. High schools are inherently encyclopedic, Wikipedia is not paper. --Zantastik 19:44, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep all schools are worthy of inclusion in a great encyclopaedia. User:GRider/Schoolwatch Klonimus 20:47, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. I have seen encyclopedic articles on other schools as well; they should be part of Wikipedia. Flcelloguy 23:08, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
• DeleteJessicab 02:45, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Not notable/distinctive for any encyclopedia worth the name -- which is a perfectly good criteria despite the invoking of a peculiar interpretation of a Jimbo Wales opinion. --Calton | Talk 03:39, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete unless wikipedia wants a boring, pointless article for every average school in every country. CDThieme
• keep Give up. Please. Lotsofissues 11:09, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, it's both verifiable and written in an NPOV way. Notability isn't a deletion criterion. James F. (talk) 12:53, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, vanity. Radiant_* 13:46, May 17, 2005 (UTC)
• Comment. This school is ranked #231 on Newsweek's list of the Best High Schools in America. -- BD2412 ^thimkact 15:04, 2005 May 17 (UTC)
• Keep. Notability is still not a deletion criterion. Needs title that includes location. - David Gerard 22:27, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and expand. Wikipedia would not be improved by the deletion of this article. ~leif ☺ _(talk) 00:57, May 18, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Surely this article is more noteworthy and notable than the useless unencyclopeadic trivia compiled in Category:sitcoms? I'll change my vote to delete if someone VfD's all the articles in Category:sitcoms first. linas 19:51, 18 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and delist. Bad faith nominat(or|ion). —RaD Man (talk) 07:27, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep acceptable topic RustyCale 22:38, 20 May 2005 (UTC)

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