Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/St. Matthew High School (Los Angeles, California)


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The result was   redirect to List of high schools in Los Angeles County, California .  MBisanz  talk 02:22, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

St. Matthew High School (Los Angeles, California)

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Fails WP:NOTE as it lacks significant coverage in sources independent of the subject. This was prodded but the prod was removed. No significant discussion in news sources, zero mention in book sources, a one-line mention in a search of scholarly sources. Cirt (talk) 17:14, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Weak Delete. They did have one hit on Google, but it's not really enough to establish notabilty. Top  Gear  Freak  17:48, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Merge/redirect to List of high schools in Los Angeles County, California until a fuller page can be written. TerriersFan (talk) 18:46, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Nothing in the article is sourced, therefore nothing should be merged. "St. Matthew High School (Los Angeles, California)" is an unlikely search term, so no purpose in redirecting. Cirt (talk) 19:57, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Everything in the article is non-contentious and factual and can be sourced (a reliable primary source is fine for a merge). Lack of notability is no bar to a merge. We merge and redirect thousands of school articles and they are rarely if ever recreated. This is normal practice and could have been done without an AfD. It is fine as a search term the way that the search box now works. 23:08, 4 December 2008 (UTC)TerriersFan (talk)


 * Keep All high schools when adequately worked on prove to have sources for notability, and therefore if it seems that it is an established school, the practice for man months has uniformly been to keep. The criterion for deletion in unsourcable, not currently unsourced. Not finding things in google news does not mean no information exists. Elementary schools are the ones that get merged. DGG (talk) 23:18, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
 * See also below comment by . All the more reason to require verifiability. Cirt (talk) 00:11, 5 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Comment&mdash;I'm not convinced that this school actually exists. There is a St. Matthew High School in San Mateo, CA, but I couldn't find one in Los Angeles. I can't support a keep.&mdash;RJH (talk) 23:50, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions.   —TerriersFan (talk) 18:54, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete and remove from St. Matthew High School disambig as non-existing school. The only St. Matthews in California should be in San Mateo and Orange County or the St. Matthews Parish School in Pacific Palisades, CA and none of them appear to be high schools. I can't find any evidence that this school exists. Also note that the Google book search result is referring to St. Matthew High School in Melrose, Louisiana--Jh12 (talk) 23:12, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Weak keep - it appears to meet my standards for high schools, but I would like to see some sources. Bearian (talk) 23:23, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
 * I have not found a lot at Google, though. Bearian (talk) 23:27, 8 December 2008 (UTC)


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