Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Yeshiva University High Schools of Los Angeles

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The result was nomination withdrawn. Proof of notability given. Kwsn^(Ni!) 16:02, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yeshiva University High Schools of Los Angeles

Found this page while doing a vandal patrol. The article itself has POV issues, but that's not the big thing. There's no proof of notability offered. Kwsn^(Ni!) 00:34, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletions. —E ddie 00:44, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Aside from a producer for a couple of sitcoms, there is no claim to notability, and the article reads less like an article about the school, and more like something advertising for the school. Almost spammy. --Dennis The Tiger (Rawr and stuff) 01:08, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep I know a few friends who actually went to this school. I don't see how the school is more or less notable than the Ida Crown Jewish Academy, which caters to the same demographic in a different city. I'll try to cleanup the cruft and standardize the structure. Shalom ^Hello 01:32, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Done. Please take a look now. Shalom ^Hello 01:43, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete this and every other school that doesn't have any reliable sources other than its own web pages. Piperdown 01:37, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. High schools are the center of many communities and are inherently notable. -- DS1953 ^talk 01:50, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- What next? Every church in every town that has its own website merits its own entry too? Churches and other places of worship are also the centers of their communities. Neither schools nor places of worship are notable if being the center of a community is all it can claim. I'm sure interested parties can find this school on Google. Wikipedia is not supposed to be Google. Not picking on this school, but it's not notable and neither are thousands of other schools. For the communities these schools are in, a mention in the "schools" section of that community's article should suffice. Piperdown 02:08, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Keep By reputation, the school is distinctly notable. The pruning done by User:Shalom is a major step forward, but further sources need to be added. Alansohn 02:18, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, not notable. No other sources apart from its own. A W 03:56, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep a clearly notable distinctive high school with relevance to a fairly wide community. Leaving churches aside, let's stick to high schools. There are a good number of specifically oriented religious-affiliated high schools, and I think they each merit an article if there is sufficient material--as is the case here. I note that it is not affiliated with Yeshiva University, so there's no possible merge there. DGG 04:40, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete With a hard squint, this could maybe be discerned as notable on the grounds of its curricular split, maybe, but nothing is evinced to suggest that is particularly striking. I respectfully disagree with DGG - we're not here to play favourites with identity politics. A High School that serves Orthodox Jews in LA is no more important to that community than any other school in any community. Per my view of schools (essay here), this should go. Eusebeus 07:46, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Unless I'm missing some critical distinction, these schools seem to have a lot of news coverage [1]. Not all schools are notable, but this one appears to be. In general, ethnic/religious-specific schools tend to be more likely to attract in-depth media attention than the run of the mill Public School No. 123 or John Dough Academy. E.g. the metropolitan paper runs a series on "diversity in education" and grabs a few such schools to do in depth profiles, a scholar studying bilingual education does a case study on the school, or, if nothing else, the city's only Pastafarian/Lower Elbonian/left-handed newspaper runs an article about the school (of course, a lot of the coverage in community-specific media consist of hagiographies of the students or teachers, written by someone whose kid/nephew/etc. happens to attend the school ... I strongly suspect this is what's going on with the very first GNews Archive hit) cab 08:02, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per cab Bucketsofg 13:28, 3 July 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.