Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Locke High School


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The result was delete. Mojo Hand (talk) 15:48, 7 November 2021 (UTC)

John Locke High School

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I'm throwing up my hands here, because I have been completely unable to verify any of the information in this article to the point that I'm starting to become convinced it's a hoax. I have not been able to so much as locate a single trivial mention of a "John Locke High School" existing in Florida at any time, in Google searches, Newspapers.com, or Google News Archive. I tried adding Florida, Duval, and Jacksonville to the school name to reduce noise from an LA school of the same name - no dice. I took out "high" and searched for "John Locke school". Nothing. I tried just "John Locke" in Florida-only papers. Zip. Nada. No announcement of closure, sale, nothing. Not even a forum post about a reunion for alumni.

This article asserts that an unnamed replacement school was built in 2006, but list of schools in Duval County, Florida gives no school established in 2006 (several don't have dates, so it's not impossible that it's one of them anyway, but - no way to know). I even searched "hospital+"panther cafe"" in the hopes that some local-interest piece somewhere mentioned this nameless hospital's cafe, supposedly named for the school's mascot. Nope.

I would be delighted to withdraw if it turns out there are sources and I just don't know how to use my eyes properly, but I would insist on knowing what occult magic was used to find them. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 14:43, 31 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Education-related deletion discussions. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 14:43, 31 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Florida-related deletion discussions. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 14:43, 31 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 15:11, 31 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete as hoax: According to my research that I did. Atlantic Coast High School, which opened in 2010, was the first new high school in Duval County in over 20 years. So unless the school that replaced John Locke was a private school (which it doesn't appear to be), this isn't true. I also looked through the results of every Florida high school football championship there ever was and found no mention of John Locke High School. I couldn't verify any other information in the article. So I believe this is a hoax. Colin Bear  ( talk  - contributions) 15:43, 31 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete as a hoax per nom and ColinBear. WADDLES 🍁 🎃 16:05, 31 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete as hoax per nom and above. – The Grid  ( talk )  21:21, 31 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete Apparently John Locke Doggett was one of the founders of Jacksonville, Florida and a pretty important historical figure there. So it's pretty likely that's who this high school (if it actually existed) is named after. That said I couldn't find anything about the school itself, but at least there was a John Locke in Jacksonville, Florida. So this might not be a hoax after all, but it's still not worthy an article if it isn't one. --Adamant1 (talk) 08:31, 3 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete and add to the hoax museum. I cannot find a single reference to a "John Locke High School" in any Florida newspaper archived by Newspapers.com, nor in ProQuest. This is extraordinarily unusual for a public high school, so much so that I'm left to conclude that the high school didn't actually exist. And, even if it were to exist, it appears to fail WP:GNG. — Mikehawk10 (talk) 18:57, 6 November 2021 (UTC)


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