Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ardsley 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 Keep. Nishkid64 01:22, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ardsley High School

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Completely unremarkable high school, fails WP:N. -- RoySmith (talk) 03:17, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

• Keep, passes WP:SCHOOL (for what little it it is worth). Passes WP:N see [1], [2], [3], [4], and a bunch of archived NYTimes articles [5]. BJ^Talk 05:42, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
• Comment The school is merely mentioned in these articles, the articles are not about the school, and in fact nothing is said about the school beyond being part of a list. I feel Neutral about this AFD, but if it stays, it's either on the strength of it's alumni or on the basis that all high schools should be included. Citicat 05:54, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment True, this HS has more press than lots of others (again, not a good keep reason). I still think that deleting all school articles but one liners should wait till a school notability guideline passes. BJ^Talk 06:03, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
• Keep per WP:SCHOOL. --MPerel ^{( talk | contrib)} 09:19, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
• Keep based on the notable alumni, but more of those should have citations. Mgm|^(talk) 11:18, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
• Keep per WP:SCHOOL. More citations are needed, however. Tom H 17:29, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment Some citations have been added. --24fan24 (talk) 21:18, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
• Comment I see a lot of people quoting WP:SCHOOL. However, note that this was a rejected guideline, so we should not be using this in afd debate one way or another. Stick to actual policies, or at least to active guidelines. Dugwiki 18:58, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment. It was only tagged rejected on January 19, though, so many editors may not have noticed. Thanks for the heads-up. --Dhartung | Talk 21:31, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
• Keep meets Wikipedia:Notability (companies and corporations) guidelines, whereas it is the subject of a vast number of Newspaper articles. Its notability is also established by its Alumni. Furthermore various citations have been added to the article. --24fan24 21:35, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
• Keep — sufficiently notable. — RJH (talk) 21:48, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
• Keep School is notable in the community and as far as school articles go, is reasonably well cited. Definately keep.Caper13 22:00, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
• Keep. High schools are harmless. And the school has already been in the news and seems notable in that regard. --TruthbringerToronto (Talk | contribs) 22:30, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
• Keep. The controversy does it for me. (Though I very much dislike the inclusion of secondary schools) Shenme 23:48, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
• Delete. Notability not demonstrated. The alumni argument doesn't make sense: everyone goes to school somewhere, and there's no evidence that being at this school is what made these alumni notable. If it could be shown that the school had some special ability to bring out the best in its students, this would be notable - but this is not demonstrated. WMMartin 13:14, 29 January 2007 (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.