Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mater Dei High School

Mater Dei 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 to keep the article.

Some high school. Wyllium 20:49, 2004 Nov 13 (UTC)

Keep - David Gerard 20:59, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Delete: not notable Edward 21:03, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Comment This article gives me a mild sense of nausea. So I really, really, really hate to point this out, but isn't the claim that "Mater Dei is the largest Catholic High school west of the Mississippi River" a fairly specific claim of notability? Their website puts it a little differently: "Current enrollment: 2,200 students; largest non-public school west of Chicago."
- The earth being round and all, everything is west of Chicago. Wyllium 02:40, 2004 Nov 14 (UTC)
Keep, if it's cleaned up. Verifiable stuff, like notable graduates, specific athletic or academic distinctions, whatever. "the largest Catholic High school west of the Mississippi" is notable, if verified (though it makes me wonder what the largest in the US is).

Missing sig from User:Calton

Sorry! Still have to get into the habit of using a sig! --Calton 14:24, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)

C Notability established, but definitely needs work. Chris 04:49, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Keep Fg2 05:19, Nov 14, 2004 (UTC)
Actually, Mater Dei is a very well-known athletic school. Its football and basketball programs are notable. I therefore vote Keep and suggest it be listed on Cleanup. Rick K 05:45, Nov 14, 2004 (UTC)
Keep, notability established. Now a dull stub on a notable topic. -- Jmabel | Talk 05:45, Nov 14, 2004 (UTC)
Delete. Not notable. Largest X school in X area is not a way to notability. --Improv 15:47, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Keep, an encyclopedic article can surele be created here. —siro χ o 18:32, Nov 14, 2004 (UTC)
Keep. Wikified etc. zoney ♣ talk 20:25, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Keep and allow for organic expansion. GRider 22:12, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Merge with Santa Ana, California and delete or redirect - Skysmith 10:18, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Keep. Article appears to weakly establish notability. --Goobergunch 22:16, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Merge I don't think excellence in athletics or education is particularily notable, in this context. For example, of the North American schools known to the rest of the world, I'd bet that there are no (real!) highschools. rmbh 00:13, Nov 17, 2004 (UTC)
Keep Very notable high school – if we're not keeping this, we should probably keep very few high schools. Not to say that article doesn't need help; it does, but should be kept and improved. Rlquall 02:12, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- Some of us do think we should keep very few high schools. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 03:20, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  - Some of us think we should keep any sensible high school articles, or merge shorter non-notable ones with the accompanying town article. zoney ♣ talk 11:24, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)
    - Some of us are more or less in agreement with some of us. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 14:22, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Keep. Apart from the fact that the concept of notablity is bogus, this should be kept. Intrigue 04:15, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Keep. Intrigue speaks the difficult to handle truth at hand. [[User:Radman1|RaD Man (talk)]] 22:13, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Keep Agree with the idea that any sensible high school articles should be kept -CunningLinguist 02:47, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)

This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like other '/delete' pages is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion or on the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.