Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Columbia High School (Lake City, Florida)


 * 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. Liz Read! Talk! 22:00, 8 June 2022 (UTC)

Columbia High School (Lake City, Florida)

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Fails WP:GNG, most sources given are not about the school. The Banner talk 18:29, 1 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Education, Schools,  and Florida. Shellwood (talk) 18:34, 1 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: There was a previous AfD in March 2007 where the decision was keep. This was hidden due to the article was under a different name at the time and the talk page XfD template predates direct linking to discussions. – The Grid  ( talk )  20:33, 1 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Comment - this school was founded in 1888. It has 20 alumni who have a Wikipedia article. Jacona (talk) 23:19, 1 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete we lack adequate sources that give indepth coverage to justify an article. Back in 2007 we operated on the pincipal every highschool everywhere was notable, we have since come to realize that is not a reasonable inclusion criteria.John Pack Lambert (talk) 12:53, 2 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Question @User:Johnpacklambert. Did you look at the article? Did you click "Find sources" at all? Jacona (talk) 13:47, 2 June 2022 (UTC)
 * A bunch of sources about sports performance are not what we need to justify an article on an educational institution.John Pack Lambert (talk) 13:48, 2 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you for responding. Jacona (talk) 14:16, 2 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep - a US high school that is 134 years old, and has won multiple state championships is notable. The world doesn't end at the end of Google. High school athletics in the US are significant socially. The fact that the sources being found are about athletics is irrelevant. I agree, transactional sources about single games generally don't speak to notability, but sources about a high school's athletics programs are NOT less significant than sources about academics or arts. AfD isn't for clean up. 174.212.229.100 (talk) 23:06, 2 June 2022 (UTC)
 * This is not clean up, this is part of the deletion process, triggered by a lack of notability and independent in-depth sources. The Banner  talk 00:28, 3 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Note - This is the only "Columbia High School" in Florida. Disambiguation isn't needed. Should be moved to Columbia High School (Florida). 174.212.229.100 (talk) 23:24, 2 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep I found an AP article from the 1930's. I have not done a full check yet. I agree with the IP that it is highly unlikely better sources don't exist, considering its size and state championship titles. Here it is. Scorpions13256 (talk) 22:06, 3 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Here is another one at the regional level. Scorpions13256 (talk) 22:12, 3 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Nice, but that is about the sport-program. Not about the school itself. And independent in-depth sources about the school is what we need. The Banner  talk 10:03, 4 June 2022 (UTC)


 * Happy Editing-- IAm Chaos  00:29, 4 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you. I am not sure what edits to make to AFD though. Scorpions13256 (talk) 00:36, 4 June 2022 (UTC)


 * Keep Here is a multi-page feature in Sports Illustrated. Here is an in-depth article from National Public Radio. Here's an article from the panhandle about the integration timeframe. Here are some other articles  . There are literally hundreds more on gSearch, around 4600 on newspapers.com search. There is enough to meet WP:GNG many times over. Given that the school is over 100 years old and has around 2,000 students, information abounds. Jacona (talk) 01:07, 4 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Nice, but that is about the sport-program. Not about the school itself. And independent in-depth sources about the school is what we need. The Banner  talk 10:03, 4 June 2022 (UTC)
 * All of those absolutely were about the school, and they did not all mention sports. While you apparently don't like it, where is a policy or guideline that states that sources about sport are excluded from establishing WP:N? Jacona (talk) 10:41, 4 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Aha, there are the accusations.
 * But if you read the article carefully, you can see that it is about a school. Not about the sports-program of a school. So it is the school-notability that must be sourced. Sports or alumni do not prove the notability of a school. The Banner  talk 11:08, 4 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Again, not all of the references above mention sport. There are hundreds of other sources easily available if you bother to look at them. And there is no policy or guideline that says the sports-program of the school is not a part of the school. Jacona (talk) 11:20, 4 June 2022 (UTC)
 * I repeat: the subject of this article is the school, not its sports program. The Banner  talk 12:35, 4 June 2022 (UTC)
 * It is evident you and I are not going to agree that there is a policy-based reason whether in-depth coverage by Sports Illustrated, NPR, etc. is coverage of the school. But why do you discount the non-sports-related coverage above, including this one? Or the hundreds of others on GSearch and newspapers.com? Or that one of it's buildings (Columbia County High School) is on the National Register of Historic Places?  Jacona (talk) 14:53, 4 June 2022 (UTC)
 * I am sorry that I have to ask but do you have any ties with the school? The Banner  talk</i> 15:32, 4 June 2022 (UTC)
 * I am sorry that I have to ask, but why will you not answer the questions I have asked above? Why do you refuse to address the sources that are not about athletics, and what policy makes schools and their sports teams unrelated? When you answer my questions, I will happily answer yours.Jacona (talk) 19:01, 4 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Come on, that's a bad take to ask. – The Grid  ( talk )  20:08, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Comment I am confident that sources exist, but the school has too generic of a name. Newspapers.com often gives me results from schools in other states that happen to have this name. This will make a proper WP:BEFORE more difficult. Scorpions13256 (talk) 15:53, 6 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep as passing all 10 factors of my standards for high schools. Bearian (talk) 16:35, 6 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep. Enough sourcing available to meet WP:GNG, as with any other American secondary school. -- Necrothesp (talk) 10:16, 8 June 2022 (UTC)


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