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, as verifiable and expanded article. - Mailer Diablo 07:34, 25 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Chambersburg Area Senior High School[edit]

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Chambersburg Area Senior High School is the sole high school of a tiny town in rural Pennsylvania. It fails all three counts of the (not accepted) WP:Schools policy. It has not been the subject of a non-trivial work, it has no notable alumni, it has not gained recognition for special achievements, and it has no special architectural history. Moving on to the more general WP:Notability criteria, a Google search [1] reveals that there are no published works available on the Internet with Chambersburg Area Senior High School as their primary focus, except primary sources published by the school itself and its associated organizations. Finally, the article has already been merged into Chambersburg#Chambersburg Area Senior High School. Looking through Chambersburg Area Senior High School's edit history reveals that a fairly large number of the edits are vandals or non-sense. Merging the article will ensure that more people will see the content and be able to revert the vandals faster. The current article should be left as a redirect to Chambersburg. Tbjablin 06:19, 20 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment. I'm confused by this nom...if the content is already merged and you want the page to be a redirect, then just do so. That is just a normal page-content edit...don't need to be in AfD world, since you're not trying to delete the whole page from existing at all. DMacks 07:24, 20 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment. I've redirected the article three times already, but people keep reverting the change. I was asked on Talk:Chambersburg Area Senior High School to bring the article up on AFD to get a resolution on whether to redirect, leave as is, or delete. Tbjablin 14:47, 20 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Redirect to the town since its been merged. There are other tools in the toolbox for dealing with non-notability than outright deletion. Sjakkalle (Check!) 13:04, 20 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletions. -- Noroton 20:01, 20 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge and Redirect to local school district or town per WP:N and WP:A. --Butseriouslyfolks 20:50, 20 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• KeepRedirect (as per Tbjablin's comment just below) all high schools are notable, as I argue here; this article has been improved in just the past few weeks. Noroton 21:25, 20 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment. I would advise you to examine the "improvements" in the article more closely. The first paragraph has been copied three times with minute variation to make the article appear bulkier. Notice that the school's enrollment of 1,800 is mentioned three times once in each of the article's three paragraphs. It's pretty obvious that no one is paying attention to this article. I think it would be better patrolled by maintaining it in the subsection it currently occupies in inside the Chambersburg article. Tbjablin 00:30, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You're right. Vote changed. I hadn't looked hard enough. Thanks! Noroton 01:17, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep and expand. — RJH (talk) 22:16, 20 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Redirect as per nom. Tbjablin 00:33, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Redirect to the town. LordHarris 02:42, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep Additional sources added to the article demonstrate notability. Article has been edited to eliminate redundancy issues, and presence of vandalism is an invalid reason for deletion. The article stands on its own. Alansohn 04:07, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Although the article is somewhat lengthened, there is no additional content (or any references) regarding article's primary focus, the high school. The additional material focuses on a single high school athlete, who is borderline noteworthy in her own right. Tbjablin 04:59, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

A statewide award to the principal, a national ranking for a sports team, and national recognition for an athlete are all strong claims of notability for the school itself, with reliable and verifiable sources provided. Notability has been established to Wikipedia standards. Alansohn 05:16, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep - this article has clear notability by WP:NOTE, in that it is an important local place. Small town or not, it has a population of 1800 students, and is clutch to the town. Google news alone has 106 hits pertaining to the school. Part Deux 14:25, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I would suggest a more narrow search. The top hit of your search was [2] which has nothing to do with the high school in question. Many other news articles happen to contain the words Chambersburg, high, and school in no particular order and of no relevance to the topic. Tbjablin 14:45, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I believe this is more specific: [3]. Though many of the mentions are trivial, many aren't; it's clear this is an important icon to the community. Part Deux 14:52, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment No real opinion, but I may have stepped in something here by accident by cutting the CASHS section in Chambersburg, PA by about half, to a very short paragraph. Feel free to revert this back to the longer paragraph. Actually, I think the larger paragraph on the Coyle Free Library is more appropriate than a full paragraph on the HS, but I'm not a high school student. Smallbones 17:43, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - now it has been sourced up it demonstates notability and fully justifies its own article. TerriersFan 18:36, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Rename to whatever school district it is a part of, and move all lengthy school district description copy in it. Remove from the MUNICIPALITY's article (I guess thats a split technically). ccwaters 19:09, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

What if the article was renamed to Schools in the Chambersburg Area and included data on public and private schools in Chambersburg and the surrounding area? We could move most fo the current section on schools from the Chambersburg article, which I believe may have grown overlong. (Excepting of course Wilson College which is deserving of its own article.) Tbjablin 00:26, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep There are enough press references to this particular high school to justify an article of its own. Some high schools are notable. This is considerable more article-worthy than most the the elementary school articles we have been seeing.DGG 00:32, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep and expand The article is growing. Give it time. Wikihermit 02:52, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep DGG's explanation. WikiIstari 00:36, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep now that the article has been rewritten; notability is now expressed through reliable sources, meeting our attribution requirements. Burntsauce 17:43, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep the rewritten version appears to pass our requirements.  ALKIVAR™ ☢ 19:23, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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.