Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Amherst Central 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 per WP:SCHOOLOUTCOMES, Wikipedia:Notability (high schools), WP:CCC, and WP:SNOW. There are now at least two reliable sources. Bearian (talk) 16:39, 27 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Amherst Central High School[edit]

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This article reads like an advertisement of a non-notable school. The only newspaper sources I could find about this school were from the Amherst Bee, which is reliable but not significant enough for a Wikipedia entry. There were only so rare things I could find that indicate a few famous people went to this school. Fails WP:SCL Editor Eat ma talk page up, scotty!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 02:07, 23 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Snow Keep. This is a sizeable public high school and per longstanding consensus we keep such articles, see WP:SCHOOLOUTCOMES, Wikipedia:Notability (high schools). Plenty of potential sources at GNews[1] and probably GBooks [2] as well.

--Arxiloxos (talk) 03:09, 23 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

- Sadly another WP:LOTSOFSOURCES argument, and also arguing that because the school is so big it has to be shared on Wikipedia. Articles on Wikipedia should not only have coverage about locally where it is, but also from newspapers and magazines out of Amherst, NY. Could you at least find what sources out of that search we could use to establish the notability of this school in the article? Editor Eat ma talk page up, scotty!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 15:35, 23 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Snow Keep of course per the long established precedent documented at WP:OUTCOMES#SCHOOLS. Furthermore, citing a failed proposal as a guidelines is little more than a joke and wastes the commnuity's time. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 12:08, 23 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of New York-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:31, 23 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:31, 23 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Even the cited proposal recognizes that senior high schools are presumed notable, and covers only articles on non-senior schools and those with little content and whose references do not support notability. This article is relatively well developed and there are many sources in The Buffalo News, a sizeable regional newspaper, of which I have added one on Newsweek ranking the school among the top 100 academically in the US; I also added a book reference on the opening of the school. The article thus establishes that the school is in fact notable. Yngvadottir (talk) 19:10, 23 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - I have removed the ad content. This looks a significant institution which has produced many notable graduates. Still has flaws, but continuing developing the article and fixing those flawes seems by far the best approach. The Whispering Wind (talk) 03:01, 24 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - per Wikipedia:Notability (high schools) and WP:SCHOOLOUTCOMES, articles about verified secondary schools are typically retained in the encyclopedia. Promotional tone can be corrected by copy editing the article. Northamerica1000^(talk) 06:38, 24 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Keep as usual for secondary schools for reasons reiterated too many times to repeat here. -- Necrothesp (talk) 17:18, 25 July 2013 (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.