Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dunbar High School (Dunbar, West Virginia)


 * 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 delete. Going with deletes here. I did my due diligence - even a search on newspapers.com - and found nothing.

If someone magically finds expansive coverage about the subject we can always undelete or rewrite it. Missvain (talk) 01:47, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

Dunbar High School (Dunbar, West Virginia)

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Does not look notable. I found no reliable sources, and the article does not include any as well. EpicPupper 20:58, 22 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. EpicPupper 20:58, 22 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of West Virginia-related deletion discussions. EpicPupper 20:59, 22 April 2021 (UTC)


 * Comment. Online sources are hard to find, since this school closed in 1991.  However, a GNews search has a few non-trivial hits with the Charleston Gazette.  A cursory Google Books search shows two obvious hits.  There may be enough to satisfy GNG, as is the case for most established U.S. high schools.  Failing notability for a stand-alone article, the school has two obvious merge possibilities, it successor South Charleston High School and its school district Kanawha County Schools. • Gene93k (talk) 08:55, 23 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete From what I can tell from the article itself and a WP:BEFORE there just isn't the in-depth, independent sourcing available for the school to be notable. The two Charleston Gazette articles mentioned by the person above are obituaries of people who went to high school there. Which clearly aren't non-trivial as claimed. Same goes for the supposedly non-trivial book sources. Which are nothing but name drops and a brief mention of how many stories the school has and that the building is made out of bricks. I'd love to know how what building material the school is made out of isn't trivial. I don't think merging it to somewhere else is a good idea either, because there's no point in merging un(or badly)-referenced material. Otherwise, it just down grades the quality of the merge target. --Adamant1 (talk) 07:14, 24 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep It's very difficult for a high school in the US not to garner sufficient coverage to satisfy WP:GNG and thus pass WP:NSCHOOL. When searching I was drowned in coverage of their sports teams, but a brief look during their first year of operation found and . Per WP:NEXIST it's highly likely there are sufficient sources out there to write an article. Pontificalibus  09:05, 25 April 2021 (UTC)
 * I wouldn't call two local news stories that are only a couple paragraphs long and about people in their sports team and a pageant "sufficient coverage." Local stories about high school pageants are inherently WP:MILL. --Adamant1 (talk) 01:39, 26 April 2021 (UTC)
 * It doesn’t matter whether the coverage is local or not, GNG makes no such stipulation. It also doesn't matter that I wasn't able to find sufficient coverage in the brief period of time I spent searching. What matters, and what I am asserting, is that a sufficient depth of coverage exists to enable us to write an article per WP:WHYN.---Pontificalibus 04:57, 26 April 2021 (UTC)
 * WP:AUD does and that's we use for the notability of organizations. Not to mention, WP:SNG says "articles which pass an SNG or the GNG may still be deleted or merged into another article." So it's not a hardline rule that something is automatically kept if it passes [WP:GNG]] in every single case anyway. Also, if you didn't find sufficient coverage yourself how do you know it exists then? You shouldn't make assertions about things that you haven't verified yourself to be accurate representations of the facts. --Adamant1 (talk) 21:56, 26 April 2021 (UTC)


 * Keep. Plenty of sourcing available, as with any other American high school. -- Necrothesp (talk) 09:28, 28 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Can you please provide the "plenty of sourcing" that you say is available so it can be added to the article once this closes if it's kept? --Adamant1 (talk) 10:03, 28 April 2021 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Kichu🐘 Need any help? 17:46, 30 April 2021 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Cabayi (talk) 15:12, 8 May 2021 (UTC)


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