Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/M. M. Robinson 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  k eep. - Mailer Diablo 07:58, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

M. M. Robinson High School

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ordinary high school with 3 well- known alumni, but no other notability DGG 05:45, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment: or to be more precise, one murder victim alumnus (so not much link between the fame and the school / education), and two redlinked "alumni" I have removed because they were probably intended to disparage their subjects (WP:BLP issues). Which leaves us with noone famous because they were at this school or with what they learned at this school, and for the moment no other claims to notability. Fram 10:02, 17 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete:, fails WP:ORG, WP:V, WP:NN. No assertion of notability, no prospect of substantive improvement.    RGTraynor  15:01, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep WP:SCHOOL is not an accepted guideline, so there is no policy statement which says high schools are or are not inherently notable, but Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Common outcomes says"Schools are frequently nominated for deletion, but consensus is frequently not reached. Most of the approximately 270 school articles nominated for deletion in the eight months January to August 2005, resulted in no consensus, with fewer than 15% actually deleted. " Pending an accepted guideline for schools, I feel the article should be kept. Most high schools will have multiple independent substantial coverage in newspapers, since they are an important part of the community and a large expense to build and operate, and often get into controversies of administration policy, beyond sports scores and graduation lists. Edison 19:23, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment: Great. Would you like to supply some?    RGTraynor  19:44, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
 * An addon. WP:SCHOOL not being a guideline means that school articles have to pass existing guidelines (like WP:ORG and WP:N) or they will be deleted. TJ Spyke 20:58, 17 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete Fails WP:N. 20:58, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep &mdash; Acceptible, but the athletics and extra-curriculars sections should probably be culled. &mdash; RJH (talk) 22:20, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep - this is a significant high school and I have cleaned up the article and added the necessary multiple references to establish notability. TerriersFan 23:55, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep Article has been cleaned up, and looks no worse than all the other high school articles. - BierHerr 02:20, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep - As cleaned up, article makes specific claims of notability, and provides reliable and verifiable sources to demonstarte notability. Alansohn 04:35, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment: Actually, it doesn't. Of the five links TerriersFan jumped in to add, three are 100% trivial mentions that this was the high school the people in question attended.  The fourth is about a karaoke record breaker where the location mentioned was the school.  The fifth comes closest, when it praises the high school's children for a charitable drive, but none are really about the school.  Are there any sources about the school as WP:V requires?   RGTraynor  13:37, 18 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Keep. Notable alumni. Ab  e  g92   Hokies!  17:14, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Notable alums, in this context, are ones who accomplish something. a murder victim may be notable, but not because of his high school.DGG 06:03, 20 April 2007 (UTC)


 * 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.