Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Paint Branch High School


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The result was   keep. postdlf (talk) 05:04, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Paint Branch High School

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I believe this article should be deleted because there are no second or third party sources to declare it a notable subject. I have searched to the best of my ability and cannot find any reliable sources that don't just note it's name, etc. Camerontregan (talk) 02:31, 4 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Automated comment: This AfD was not correctly transcluded to the log (step 3). I have transcluded it to Articles for deletion/Log/2013 July 4.  Snotbot   t &bull; c &raquo;  02:43, 4 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Maryland-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 03:01, 4 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 03:02, 4 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Keep I have added two Washington Post articles (obtained via Highbeam); meets the notability criteria for schools. AllyD (talk) 07:16, 4 July 2013 (UTC)
 * They are where? Camerontregan (talk) 08:27, 4 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Keep per longstanding consensus that secondary schools of verified existence are inherently notable in the same way that populated places, highways, rivers, elected high level politicians, professional athletes, etc. are inherently presumed notable. Carrite (talk) 15:25, 4 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Comment - @Cameron, this is a consensus which has emerged here over the course of years. In rough outline, it is a working consensus between those who favor a vast and expansive encyclopedia and those who favor a limited and focused encyclopedia in which secondary schools are presumed notable and primary schools are presumed non-notable barring very large extenuating circumstances. The thinking is that high schools are centers of community life and that they are the subject of repeated and protracted coverage in the local press of their communities — construction, remodeling, speakers, events, sports teams, music performances, state academic reports on achievement, etc. etc. Moreover, a proper biography is very apt to include the name of a high school and these links should be blue, not red. Rather than spend about 75% of our time at AfD fighting over the relative merits or lack thereof of this school or that, dumping hundreds or thousands of hours into digging up sources or recreating deleted articles as sources emerge and new editors come along, the simple rule of thumb has emerged that pieces on secondary schools of confirmed existence are treated as automatically notable, while pieces on primary schools (barring extraordinary circumstances) are converted to redirect to their school board, or failing that their parish or town. This working consensus has never been run through an RFC and made into official notability doctrine (it probably should be at some point, I suppose), but it is very, very widely accepted by AfD participants and closing administrators alike. I hope this makes sense to you. Best regards, —Tim Davenport, Corvallis, OR /// Carrite (talk) 15:24, 4 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep. As we do with every other secondary school article for reasons endlessly regurgitated on AfDs. -- Necrothesp (talk) 16:34, 4 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep per the well established precedent as described and reported in  WP:OUTCOMES. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 15:13, 6 July 2013 (UTC)
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