Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pittsford Mendon High 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 speedy keep, nominator is single-purpose sockpuppet/troll. — CharlotteWebb 16:50, 25 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not notable, no citations Andrew Robertson 21:57, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep Until we get a set rule for schools, high schools are generally considered notable. Mr.Z-mantalk¢Review! 22:04, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • I didn't know that; do you have a reference for this? Andrew Robertson 23:47, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep If we go by the rationale that it's not notible (which I disagree with), then hundreds of other H.S. pages on Wikipedia would have to be deleted. And take a look at those other pages. They might have more, better organized content than Mendon's (perhaps they suffer less vandalism), but none of the info is particularly encyclopedic. Arwcheek 22:46, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Not a justification. Please see WP:OTHERCRAPEXISTS. Andrew Robertson 23:47, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Neither is that essay you pointed to. Majorly _{(o rly?)} 23:56, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      • I didn't intend to indicate that the essay was policy, only that it provided a good argument. --71.235.102.239 01:08, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• This whole argument works the other way round. Notability has to be proven. As we have no set way to prove N for schools specifically, and no sign that we will ever agree on any, let us delete all the articles without a very firm basis according to the general rules, which would require two very solid RSs for all local institutions attesting to more than the existence. But this particular school ranks high enough to be Notable, so,
• 'KeepDGG 04:39, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Weak Keep The Newsweek article needs to be proved, but that may make it notable. Otherwise it's just another school - i.e. non-notable. EliminatorJR ^Talk 01:03, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Strong Keep The school's consistent top rankings in Newsweek's annual survey, and their win in the National Fed Challenge are strong claims of notability. These claims are all backed by reliable and verifiable sources to clearly justify and support the claim of notability. As usual, it took just a few minutes to find sources to back up the article and to add additional material, and this can be done without much effort for virtually any high school in the United States. It's amazing what you can do if your objective is to improve articles, not just to get rid of them. I must say that this was one of the easier articles to find sources to demonstrate notability. Alansohn 02:19, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep There is no consensus at Wikipedia that high schools are or are not inherently notable, as evidenced by the fact that high school AfDs are closed as "no consensus", "keep" or "delete" on a case by case basis. However, this school is notable as having been one of the top 50 in the country. --Butseriouslyfolks 05:35, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep Until we get a set rule for schools,(such as WP:SCHOOL which is currently undergoing a tagging war and variously tagged as "rejected", "historical" or "proposed guideline") high schools are neither inherently notable nor inherently non-notable. This article at least has some content and several references, and its creators appear to have satisfied WP:ATT, the proposedWP:AI and the dispuited WP:N. Edison 15:33, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. The reasoning for deletion has been obviated, there are now reliable sources which meet our attribution requirements. Burntsauce 17:37, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletions. -- Noroton 19:02, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep Yet again, Alansohn does work no barnstar is big enough for. The Newsweek rankings I think make this notable under anyone's defintiion. In any event, they're all notable, and this one's a good article. Noroton 19:07, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - a nicely sourced article on a notable school. TerriersFan 02:18, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. The Newsweek article gives notability, even under stricter guideliens for schools that don't yet exists. Realkyhick 05:59, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep per Alansohn and Realkyhick.  ALKIVAR™ ☢ 19:24, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep per Alansohn and Realkyhick, though how significant (and truthful) is the Newsweek article?. Xarr 15:56, 25 March 2007 (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.