Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Seton Keough 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   keep. Trying to delete High School articles is the wikipedia version of pissing in the wind. There is long standing consensus (truce) that primary schools get redirected to the education authority and the high schools get their own page. Spartaz Humbug! 17:45, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

Seton Keough High School

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Not a remarkable place John Collier (talk) 16:15, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete Not a notable school, I was unable to find any reference to it anywhere on the internet, and it hasn't been mention in the washington post or any other newspaper with online archives for that matter. I was able to find this which is a reference to the sports activites that take place at the school, but that alone is not enough to establish notability.-- Patton 123  17:06, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
 * The school's name garners 8,710 Google hits, and while many of them may not have anything to do with establishing notability, that certainly indicates that it has been referenced on the Internet. Furthermore, not only has the school been mentioned in the Washington Post , but the school is in Baltimore, not Washington, which means that one should not expect it to be extensively covered in the Washington Post. (The Washington Post search conducted by Patton above, which garnered no hits, only covers the last 60 days.) --Metropolitan90 (talk) 17:20, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
 * I haven't found a single thing using regular google search that helps establish the notability of the school. The articles on google news appear to be nothing more than trivial mentions of the school. The school is thus non notable.-- Patton 123  18:19, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep Long-established secondary schools tend to be a sufficiently important part of their communities to be quite notable; in this case, we have 737 Gnews hits. RayAYang (talk) 20:48, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Maryland-related deletion discussions.   -- RayAYang (talk) 19:14, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep - searching on the component schools, as well as the new name, produces many sources that, together meet WP:ORG. In addition, the sources show that the school has produced several academic All-American athletes and the school has been involved in an important legal case. TerriersFan (talk) 19:22, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions.   —TerriersFan (talk) 19:25, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep per TerriersFan and apply available sources. This school gets non-trivial RS coverage. • Gene93k (talk) 03:04, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete Those news stories seem to be mainly routine sports schedules or results. This isn't anything like the in-depth coverage required to meet WP:ORG. Nick-D (talk) 03:45, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep High schools are generally considered notable. Edward321 (talk) 05:29, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Where are these sources I've seen two keeps above talking about reliable non-trivial sources, but where are they? The ones mentioned in the discussion of my delete are all trivial.-- Patton 123  15:32, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment My thoughts exactly. There is no policy or guideline which states that high schools are automatically notable, despite what some editors claim, and WP:ORG needs to be satisfied. The results of the Google search don't show that this is the case. Nick-D (talk) 10:30, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment Of course, for those prepared to look for sources there are plenty. See:, , , , , , , , . As I said earlier this school has been involveD in a major legal case and has several All_American athletes - plenty to meet policy. TerriersFan (talk) 20:04, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
 * None of those are actual references they're just google searches. Please provide me with actual references and I will reconsider my current position, otherwise I say delete.-- Patton 123  22:30, 1 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Keep. As usual it has turned out that a high school has enough references to show notability. Phil Bridger (talk) 20:49, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep. I've not looked at the sources here, but have done the work on finding sources for other school articles: they always end up having enough sources when people make the effort. There is no established school in the developed world that doesn't have newspaper articles and government reports on itYobmod (talk) 10:56, 4 December 2008 (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.