Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Allen Central High School

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The result was keep. Sr13 is almost Singu larity 09:06, 8 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Allen Central High School

School fails WP:ORG due to lack of substantial independent coverage. The article has existed since August 2006, has seen a lot of "funny" unsourced content, and survived a PROD, but notability is still not established. Sources given are not independent, or not reliable (one seems to be a private page). So, I suppose, notability will never be established. -- Sent here as part of the Notability wikiproject. --B. Wolterding 14:17, 3 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete WP:N: No claim of notability whatsoever. WP:DIR: Wikipedia is not a school catalogue--Victor falk 15:23, 3 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - I seem to recall a default consensus that all high schools are notable enough. --Rocksanddirt 19:31, 3 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletions. -- Bduke 00:20, 4 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep High school = notable. LukeHoC 02:13, 4 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I'm not aware of a policy or guideline saying that all high schools are notable. WP:ORG requires secondary sources, and none have been given for this school. --B. Wolterding 14:21, 4 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep All high schools are notable, as I argue here. Noroton 18:28, 4 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment A Google search of the school's name, and especially a Google News Archives search shows that it is very notable for its controversial use of the Confederate flag (or incorporation of it into some school symbol) and for some kind of school mascot involving a Confederate soldier. Unfortunately, nearly all articles about the controversy are behind subscription/archive walls, including articles in the Floyd County Times for instance, here] (which you may need to register for in order to even see the archive listing page). Both the Louisville Courrier and the Lexington Herald-Leader (which seem to be the top newspapers in Kentucky) have published stories about it. I can't figure out whether or not the Board of Education decided to keep or remove the symbols or came to some other decision, if any. Previous versions of the article refer to the controversy. Even if you don't think all high schools are notable, this particular high school is undoubtedly notable. We can verify that with references to the articles that focus on the school. We just can't read more than a few sentences of those articles without paying for them. Without some local person who has access to the news articles, or who is willing to pay for them, the Wikipedia article should be kept, should have a sentence or two referring to what we can confirm about the controversy and should be ready to be filled out by someone who can and will do it.Noroton 18:53, 4 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

All right, I found it. Here's your proof of notability, brought to you by The International Herald Tribune here. At the very least, the Associated Press article ran on the newspaper's Web site, but it seems to indicate it also ran in the newspaper itself. Together with the description/excerpts of articles behind the subscription/archive walls, notability is demonstrated and is airtight under anyone's definition of WP:N.Noroton 19:31, 4 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Keep as stated above. It is notable. Marlith ^T/C 00:20, 5 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - notable high school involved in controversy and with the necessary multiple sources to meet WP:N. TerriersFan 02:07, 5 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep — No consensus exists on high school notability, but it meets mine. Wash, rinse, repeat. — RJH (talk) 19:33, 5 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep this article. The school is notable. -- DS1953 ^talk 03:23, 6 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Strong Keep Above and beyond the overwhelming precedent for consensus on notability of high schools, this article provides multiple reliable and verifiable sources to establish notability. Great work on expansion by User:Noroton! Just more evidence of the ample reliable sources available for almost every high school, if one would only take the time to look. Alansohn 06:06, 6 August 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.