Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shoshone Continuation High School

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The result was redirect to Death Valley Academy. (non-admin closure) czar · · 15:02, 30 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Shoshone Continuation High School[edit]

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See also: other articles of the same author with the same problems: Tecopa-Francis Elementary School, Shoshone Elementary School
Sander.v.Ginkel (talk) 11:27, 23 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Merge or keep. As a general rule, verifiable high schools are notable, and Shoshone Continuation High School does have a website, here: [1] . It bears mentioning, however, that the current text appears to be more or less a verbatim copy of the first paragraph of that web page. Since this is a special "continuation school" and there isn't any more said about it right now, I wouldn't mind if we decided to merge this into the more informative existing article for Death Valley Academy or the Death Valley Unified School District. Per usual practice, those elementary school articles should be redirected to the same place. By the way, what's also needed is some usable content about the district's actual primary high school, Death Valley Academy, which currently has no article of its own and gets only a bare mention in the district article. --Arxiloxos (talk) 00:23, 24 May 2013 (UTC) modified by ---Arxiloxos (talk) 20:07, 24 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

There was an article about Death Valley Academy, but it was deleted on 21 May. (Unambiguous advertising or promotion: no independent sources). I agree that the topic is notable, but the prosa is poor.Sander.v.Ginkel (talk) 09:14, 24 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of California-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 02:24, 24 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 02:25, 24 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Comment I note that this continuation high school is located on the campus of Death Valley Academy. The ideal solution would be to have an article about Death Valley Academy which included a little about the continuation high school, and a redirect to it from this name (continuation schools usually don't get much press and IMO could be an exception to the "all high schools are notable" generalization, especially when they are contiguous with a "regular" high school). Let me see if I can do anything along these lines, such as recreating the article about Death Valley Academy. Otherwise, merge to Death Valley Unified School District per Arxiloxos. --MelanieN (talk) 15:59, 24 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

There, I created an article about Death Valley Academy, which contains information about the continuation school. I now recommend a Redirect from this article to the article about the Academy. --MelanieN (talk) 18:02, 24 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Kudos a-plenty to MelanieN for her well-done rescue of Death Valley Academy, which is actually a somewhat more interesting topic than the usual small high school. And I am fine with the high school article as the redirect target for the continuation school. And as noted above, the elementary school articles noted by the nominator should be redirected to the school district article (which does not require an AfD, but I thought I might wait until consensus had emerged here). --Arxiloxos (talk) 20:07, 24 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The elementary schools noted are actually up for AfD, although as you note they could have been simply redirected. (It's kind of weird that the high school got speedy-deleted, but the elementary schools and the continuation school went to AfD). They are at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tecopa-Francis Elementary School and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shoshone Elementary School. --MelanieN (talk) 23:54, 24 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect per reasoning given by MelanieN. May I also say good work by MelanieN in creating the article Death Valley Academy; I hope that it is submitted to WP:DYK.--RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 11:12, 28 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, but it's probably too short. --MelanieN (talk) 05:34, 29 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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