Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/WHS (high schools)


 * 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 delete.  Sandstein  17:51, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

WHS (high schools)
We don't need this. No one is going to look for a high school such as Walker High School by typing in WHS. Pretty much any high school that starts with W can be abbreviated to such. Voortle (talk) 18:22, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. Everymorning (talk) 21:39, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete per WP:NCA. How many High Schools would have this acronym? 5000?  10000?  Onel 5969  TT me 03:26, 17 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep: there are similar, long-established (eg DHS Jan 2008), dab pages, or sections of dab pages, for AHS, BHS, CHS, DHS ... (at, or linked from, those links). They do no harm. People do indeed refer to high schools by initials, these abbreviations are mentioned in the articles, and there seems no reason to make an exception to our usual rules just because these dab pages include so many entries. Pam  D  08:23, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 04:05, 23 September 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete This is an unnecessary page, since it is unlikely readers would assume the "WHS" they are interested in is the only one in the world with those initials and search for an article about it by typing in the initials. It is also unlikely they would know the initials but not the name of the school. "It does no harm" is an ineffective keep argument as is "other stuff exists." Edison (talk) 22:16, 23 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete dab page that fails WP:DABABBREV "Do not add articles to abbreviation or acronym disambiguation pages unless the target article includes the acronym or abbreviation—we are resolving an ambiguity, not making yet another dictionary of abbreviations" None of these schools is referred to as WHS in any sources. Kraxler (talk) 01:57, 1 October 2015 (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.