Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sequoia High School

Sequoia High School was proposed for deletion. This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was KEEP

School vanity. --fvw *  00:18, 2004 Dec 17 (UTC)


 * Strong keep, this school is extremely notable. [[User:GRider|GRider\talk]] 00:29, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete The school's homepage shows up top of a search for "sequoia high school", so it doesn't seem as if they are struggling to maintain a web presence. Adambisset 00:33, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * This is by far the most frightening rationale I've heard for deletion all week. [[User:GRider|GRider\talk]] 00:46, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Yep, that's very disturbing. --Andylkl 06:19, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep and send to cleanup. Seems notable, but why the heck can't anyone seem to write more than a couple of half-hearted sentences about schools?  No wonder they wind up here! - Lucky 6.9 00:53, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete: I don't see the notability that others do, and I think we've just been conditioned to have such low expectations from the rather rabid "KEEP" and "Extreme keep" and "all schools are notable" fights over articles that say "John Doe High is the Fighting Sloths and has a top ranked 10th grade Esperanto class" that we're over-reacting to a competent, but essentially unremarkable, article on a well funded public school in San Fransisco. Geogre 02:16, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep: This school gets over 9,500 google hits when the search term is "Sequoia High School" and around 5,000 when you add the term California  or Redwood City  to limit any schools with the same name. That combined with the stuff mentioned in the second and third sentences of the first paragraph suggests notability. --Spangineer &#8734; 02:29, Dec 17, 2004 (UTC)
 * Extreme keep. A worthy stub on a noteworthy educational institution. &mdash;[[en:RaD Man|RaD Man (talk)]] 02:36, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. First paragraph seems to give reason for notability. Second paragraph badly needs cleanup though. - Andre Engels 02:55, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep, go sloths! Wyss 03:31, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * A hardline position against school notability might let in one school per country or so. A hardline position in favour of school notability would let in hundreds of thousands. A reasoned moderate position would note that Sequoia High School is one of just a few hundred offering the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program in the United States, that it's about 110 years old and the first school in a large and important area, and that it has a fascinating campus that could be a bit of a tourist draw. (I'd go out of my way to see it if I were in the area.) Keep! Samaritan 04:42, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep. I never can make my mind up about schools. It would be great if Wikipedia could have as many schools as possible, but since so many have already been deleted, there doesn't seem much point in only including a few. What good is an incomplete selection? P Ingerson 07:34, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Merge to flesh out Redwood City, California and delete - Skysmith 08:06, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * As noted above, the article has established the school's notability. Keep. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 08:35, Dec 17, 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. --JuntungWu 11:49, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep, although in it's present state I'd have no objection to merging the article with the city article or into a school district article. older &ne; wiser 15:45, Dec 17, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Sorry kids, just another f**king US High School.  Take it to wikischolls, because no-one cares.  (PS : Anyhow notice how the Brits, Aussies and Canadians manage to resist the temptation to set their High School in stone.  Bleeding seppies.) -- GWO 16:11, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * And yet another astounding display of professionalism on Wikipedia. [[User:GRider|GRider\talk]] 16:49, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Hmmmm, that's a rather inappropriate comment from GWO and is also somewhat misinformed. Check out Category:Australian high schools and for the Brits there is Category:Public Schools as well as Category:Education in the United Kingdom and other subcategories (and there are likely articles on schools in both countries which have not been categorized). While many of the UK entries are remarkable simply for the length of continuous operation, there are also such unremarkable entities as William Farr School, Newstead Wood School for Girls, Slough Grammar School, Calvin Christian School as well as stubs like Aylesbury Grammar School, Newport Free Grammar School. Apparently school vanity is not a uniquely U.S. phenomenon. older &ne; wiser 16:57, Dec 17, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. I don't see how it is any more notable than a thousand other high schools. Jacob1207 16:47, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Fortunately for visitors to Wikipedia, others do. [[User:GRider|GRider\talk]] 19:14, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep: Seems notable to me. DCEdwards1966 20:46, Dec 17, 2004 (UTC)
 * keep. Yuckfoo 01:50, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. Schools are inherently notable. Besides, there's no such thing as school articles being vanity. --Andylkl 05:58, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Schoolcruft. Gamaliel 06:23, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. It doesn't have to be "any more notable than a thousand other high schools", any more than a mathematical law has to be any more notable than a thousand other mathematical laws, or a tree has to be more notable than another tree. All schools are notable enough for inclusion in an encyclopaedia of this scope.Dr Zen 07:39, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * del.Mikkalai 00:53, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. Schools are notable RustyCale 00:44, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. The Steve  18:40, Dec 20, 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. Mark Richards 21:18, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep this - Intrigue 07:34, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. It's still a non-notable school. --G Rutter 14:10, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Weak keep. Seems a significant part of its area's history, rather than just a place to store non-voters during working hours. Why has no-one set up Wikischools? Icundell 15:21, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * A better asked question is why has no-one set up WikiPokemon?. Schools, especially schools such as this one, belong in Wikipedia proper.  [[User:GRider|GRider\talk]] 16:47, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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