Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/La Quinta High 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 of the debate was keep. Ifnord 02:49, 25 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Not Encyclopedic and it seems to have turned into a contest of who's "hotter" Damicatz 23:51, 21 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep, insufficient reason for deletion. Partial blocking or banning vandals is a better solution. --Ezeu 02:12, 22 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep, real high school. Kappa 07:24, 22 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- pet peeve. I think its great you voted keep for the school. Of course I normally vote keep also. But, I, and I assume you, also check the school is real first. That typically involves a google, and finding at a bare minimum, the school's web site. When you do, could you please add it to the article. That way, the next person who comes to the AFD, doesn't have to repeat the same steps you already performed. Of course, ideally, the creator of the article would have taken 10 seconds to add the web site, and save others a bunch of wasted time. --Rob 09:05, 22 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Non-notable, but, regardless, the standard is to keep high schools and merge most primary schools. -Rebelguys2 09:21, 22 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Since you've said this a few times, I suggest you take a look at Category:Elementary schools in the United States, and subcats like Category:Elementary schools in California. Also, take a browse through Wikipedia:Watch/schoolwatch/Schools for deletion archive/2005. You'll find that there is quite a few stand alone elementary school articles that survived an AFD (only a small fraction were merged). Merging may be appropriate for substubs, but it makes little sense for substantial articles regardless of grade level. But, you're still entitled to want to merge primaries and wish it was the standard. But, I don't know why you claim it is a standard. --Rob 09:32, 22 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- I'm actually referring to WP:SCH, which, though it is by no means a "policy," suggests the possibility of being bold and merging "Short, uninformative school articles." That's my rationale for merging primary schools, though I may have worded it wrong. -Rebelguys2 02:22, 23 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- In case we're talking about different things I'm talking only about Wikipedia:Schools#Current proposal for schools, which is the results of the most recent discussions, which had majority, but non-consensus support. It says nothing about whether a school is primary or secondary, which seems to be your primary criteria. Instead it focusses mainly on whether there is sufficient content in the article. Where does it say primaries *specifically* should be merged in most cases? Also, please note that Wikipedia:Schools#Current proposal for schools is the most recent result of discussions of mergers, and other text on the page is somewhat older. But even the text you quoted doesn't specify primaries. What's the deal with primaries? --Rob 02:42, 23 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- We are talking about different things. I'm just referring the fact that I support the merging of primary schools, per the merging suggestion in WP:SCH. I know it doesn't differentiate between primary and secondary schools. Hence, you'll note that I said it was "my rationale for merging primary schools."
- I suppose if you want a explanation of my error, I began using this inaccurate wording of ("standard") from similarly inaccurate votes in previous school AfDs. Voters, in the past, have suggested that the primary/secondary division may have been a "standard." In addition, for example, CalJW's keep vote below specifies that there's something unique in that this article is about a high school ("as with any high school"), as opposed to a school on another level. The discussion of schools is, obviously, far from my primary focus on Wikipedia, and I suppose I was simply inaccurate in the way I worded my own argument. -Rebelguys2 04:53, 23 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- In case we're talking about different things I'm talking only about Wikipedia:Schools#Current proposal for schools, which is the results of the most recent discussions, which had majority, but non-consensus support. It says nothing about whether a school is primary or secondary, which seems to be your primary criteria. Instead it focusses mainly on whether there is sufficient content in the article. Where does it say primaries *specifically* should be merged in most cases? Also, please note that Wikipedia:Schools#Current proposal for schools is the most recent result of discussions of mergers, and other text on the page is somewhat older. But even the text you quoted doesn't specify primaries. What's the deal with primaries? --Rob 02:42, 23 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- I'm actually referring to WP:SCH, which, though it is by no means a "policy," suggests the possibility of being bold and merging "Short, uninformative school articles." That's my rationale for merging primary schools, though I may have worded it wrong. -Rebelguys2 02:22, 23 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Since you've said this a few times, I suggest you take a look at Category:Elementary schools in the United States, and subcats like Category:Elementary schools in California. Also, take a browse through Wikipedia:Watch/schoolwatch/Schools for deletion archive/2005. You'll find that there is quite a few stand alone elementary school articles that survived an AFD (only a small fraction were merged). Merging may be appropriate for substubs, but it makes little sense for substantial articles regardless of grade level. But, you're still entitled to want to merge primaries and wish it was the standard. But, I don't know why you claim it is a standard. --Rob 09:32, 22 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete, school is not notable. Cedars 12:56, 22 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Cedars, see Wikipedia:Schools#Notability --Ezeu 13:31, 22 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep as with any high school. CalJW 13:25, 22 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep like any high school. -- Jjjsixsix (talk)/(contribs) @ 03:35, 24 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep, notable. Christopher Parham (talk) 18:55, 24 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep High Plains Drifter 21:54, 24 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep as per Wikipedia:Schools/Arguments#Keep. Silensor 23:01, 24 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- 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.