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. NawlinWiki 19:11, 9 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delone Catholic High School[edit]

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As Schoolcruft. School does not meet the notability criteria. A unique fund-raising activity for a notable event does not qualify for notability by association, and community consensus at AfD has determined that state level inter-school competitions are not considered notable (See the Girls Sport Victoria, PSA, etc AfD's). The school's mission statement is just pure cruft. After you remove the fund raising, the marketing cruft, and the sports from the article, you have nothing left but an almost empty article which isn't even stub worthy and falls foul of WP:NOT#INFO and WP:NOT#DIR. Thewinchester (talk) 00:37, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • Comment You're making a keep nomination on the basis that the reasons for deletion disagree with an essay you created? And you're the one saying others are using circular logic! The article in question does not meet notability, as clearly outlined and dissected in the nominator's opening explanation. Additionally, you once again fail to assume good faith and accuse another user of having undertaking a concerted campaign of deleting school articles, and you do so with no basis or justification. As for the other AfD's in question, anyone who's anyone who keeps an eye on the Schools deletion sorting list will know these so there's simply no point linking to them. Next time Alan, challenge the reasons provided for deletion, instead of launching into another tirade against a user on the sole basis that the nomination simply disagrees with your narrow way of thinking. Thewinchester (talk) 03:12, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment Using WP:SCHOOLCRUFT as the primary excuse to delete an article, as is the case here, is a cardinal example of WP:CRUFTCRUFT. I will restate my reasons for retention: "Article provides ample sources to demonstrate notability with dozens more available. In the dozen or so school AfDs created over the past few days, success in state-level sports competitions have been a strong deciding factor in rejecting the persistent efforts to delete these articles." The article provides multiple, independent reliable and verifiable sources for the school's achievements to demonstrate notability, in full compliance with WP:N. At no time have I accused you of a concerted anti-school campaign, and your insistence that I am making this accusation is once again a blatant failure to assume good faith and part of a continued pattern of WP:CIVIL violations. My comment that started "In the dozen or so school AfDs created over the past few days" was directed at the fact that there have been more than a dozen AfDs in the past few days (see Wikipedia:Watch/schoolwatch/Schools for deletion archive for details), among which are AfDs were participants weighed success in sports competition as a critical factor in establishing notability (see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wesleyan Christian Academy for an excellent example), contrary to your entirely unsupported assertion. If you believe that the specific AfDs you mentioned establish any sort of precedent, you will need to cite them (as I have), as I have no idea what you're referring to. Alansohn 05:07, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment At this point, I would feel it appropriate to point out for others who may encounter this AfD that Alansohn is the subject of a active Request for Comment case for issues of WP:AGF, WP:CIVIL, WP:NPA, and WP:POINT, and his continued comments here are prime example why five different users have seen fit to certify the dispute against him. His comments are another of ad hominem attacks which IMHO have become his trademark of late, and once again fail to address the well documented reasons for this AfD. The article is an example of Schoolcruft which infests wikipedia, and if the user in question had taken the time to read beyond the first full stop, they would have seen that there is a fully and clearly justified opinion in respect to policy issues associated with the article and the reasons for it being brought to AfD (Being that it does in no way meet WP:N and if all non-notable information was removed from the article it would become encyclopaedic and removed anyway). As is often the case, editors will often use various essays as a shorthand reason for an XfD nomination, which nowhere in WP policy, procedures, or guidelines is considered unacceptable or frowned upon. This has the benefit of saving reasonable and considered users valuable time when looking at the issues brought to hand, particularly if they know the essay. In the case of this AfD, an essay has been accompanied with a reasonable, detailed and considered explanation for those who wish to dig further into the deletion argument. Your use of this essay for the purpose of labelling an editor and their actions is an egregious breach of WP:AGF, a point made by WP Administrator Orderinchaos when you were issued a AGF3 Warning for these comments. You have also stated in your comments on Orderinchaos' talk page that he is my buddy. OIC and myself do go back quite a way, but both of us as demonstrated from our histories here act independently of friendships or relationships, and act simply on the issues at hand in the spirit and manner which WP intends, and not in a collusive manner which you have ceaselessly alleged without basis or merit, again an egregious breach of WP:AGF and an example of why users have seen fit to open an RFC regarding your actions. You have continued to extrapolate minor and meaningless points for your own benefit, and I will again repeat my previous advice - comment on the AfD and not your issues or viewpoints with users, essays, consensus, or other matters. Instead of the countless hours you spend commenting ad nausem regarding these issues, you'd be much better off devoting that time back to improving articles. Thewinchester (talk) 06:39, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Important Note The above comments were restored after their improper removal from this discussion by User:Alansohn. Thewinchester (talk) 06:53, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Important Note The above comments were restored for a second time after their improper removal from this discussion by User:Alansohn. Thewinchester (talk) 07:05, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • I have tried to remove your blatant personal attack on three occasions only to have you reinsert them and add further attacks. Your choices to make a personal attacks are blatant violations of WP:CIVIL and will be addressed with appropriate sanctions if you refuse to remove all of your attacks. Alansohn 07:13, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Certainly an interesting way of admitting you almost breached WP:3RR over, of all things, an AfD. Wholesale removal of editors' comments is unacceptable, what I see is a heated discussion, and someone who doesn't like being disagreed with. There is a reason the Wikipedia powers-that-be invented 3RR as a rule, and this kind of case seems to speak to it. Zivko85 07:17, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • As you have admitted, there is no WP:3RR violation, nor would there be for removing personal attacks made in violation of WP:NPA. Alansohn 07:25, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment WP:POINT#Gaming_the_system, a Wikipedia behavioural guideline which reads as follows: Gaming the system is the use of Wikipedia rules to thwart Wikipedia policy. In many cases, gaming the system is a form of disruption, such as obstinately reverting an edit exactly three times a day, and then "innocently" maintaining that no rules are being violated.. I think this says all that needs to be said here regarding your actions. Thewinchester (talk) 07:29, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
An essay is never a reason to delete *anything*. That's why almost everyone here has been citing specific policies/guidelines. Orderinchaos 10:18, 2 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
This isn't some attack on school articles in general (and BTW, your little quip about just not reading bad articles is the most infantile argument I have ever read in an AFD. We shouldn't delete NN articles, we should just ignore them? What a crock) nor is this an I don't like it deletion. The school does not meet the notability guidelines, plain and simple. As I stated above, coverage of sports wins is something that newspapers, especially local/regional ones, are basically forced to cover to fill their sports section everyday. It's worthless in terms of notability, bc it isn't an independent choice to cover the school because of it's notable and newsworthy status. And Katrine funding? please. hundreds of thousands of completely non-notable schools and organizations raised funds for this and other national disasters. it's not unique or notable. Neither of these two kinds of coverage, which comprise all of the schools news coverage referenced, meet the definition of "significant coverage". VanTucky 20:06, 2 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the feeback. :) EagleFan 20:09, 2 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment Your presumption that notability has been met is not that same as a patent meeting of Notability requirements. You seem to simply ignore the fact that what we are saying is obviously trivial mentions of playing MMM-Bop for a Katrina fundraiser and sports coverage do not in any way qualify as "significant coverage" which "address the subject directly in detail". The coverage is not about the educational institution in any of the articles sourced. Do they profile the school's academic status, history or extracurricular activities in the MTV bit? No, they just connect it to their main point of coverage, which is pop music. Patently trivial, as the fact that this is Delone Catholic High School (and no other school) plays no role in the connection to a notable band. Does the coverage about the sports wins comprehensively profile the school? No, it is more about the season and the teams than the actual educational institutions. If you doubt that any of this coverage is trivial, just think about what would happen if each was all the school had...speedy deletion, that's what. VanTucky (talk) 16:28, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • You may rightfully believe that the fundraiser itself was trivial. However, the articles about the program clearly meet the "significant coverage" qualifier and all address the school directly and in detail per each an every clause of the Wikipedia:Notability standard. The term "trivial" refers to the nature of the mention within an article, not subjective perception of the importance of the event. Consensus is clear here that Wikipedia:Notability is satisfied. Alansohn 16:41, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • I'm not talking about the events at all, I'm talking about the coverage. I think the fundraiser itself is a far from trivial in the real world, but the coverage of it most definitely was. Significant coverage means the subject is covered "in detail". A school is, simply put, a place where students learn from teachers. If the coverage cited only speaks of a sports event or a fundraiser, it is not covering in detail what that subject is and how it operates. VanTucky (talk) 16:51, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Alansohn - Are you incapable of seeing the logic and meaning in the arguments of others? I would have expected a greater level of intellegance from yourself, but my hopes once again seem dashed. Go back, re-read the AfD I refered to in it's entirety, the comments of the closing admin, then come back to this AfD (Because it seems that everyone else managed to understand the connection between this AfD and the one I mentioned). The lesson in the quotation of the closing administator's remarks was that sources are often used that are only incidential or trivial references to an articles subject (which is the point VanTucky and many others have been at pains to point out), and make no offering of information that leads to the establishment of Notability. The closing remarks of the admin regarding other policies were in relation to that specific AfD and I haven't seen anyone try and use them here as apart of the deletion reference. Playing sport does not make one school more notable than another, because every school plays sport. If that sporting competition was a long standing competition of a national level organised by a crediable organisation then you might be able to bend for the article (And that's only if that organisation and competition have articles which meet relevant criteria). Many schools organise fundraising activities on a daily basis, and just because one school has one which is for a notable event which uses a notable band as part of the activity does not notability grant by association. Just because it has one known notable alumnis does not grant it notability by association either. A logical exception to this would be if for example the school ran a significantly regonised regional or national academy for a specific sport or academic pursuit where there had been significant notable alumni from it. The userfied essay you cited in your recent comments has not been mentioned by anyone here other than yourself, nor was it used in the nominators statement for deletion, nor has it been cited by anyone else. Your attempt to introduce that into the discussion is irrilivent and of no bearing to this AfD. If you want to start essay wars, then I suggest you look at your own essay and the total lack of anything useful to deal with perceived problems you claim exist. The fact is that regardless of what you think the relevant policies say in your view, consensus at AfD has generally disagreed with you. The sooner you learn to take a leaf from Willie Nelson, then the better off WP might be for it. Thewinchester (talk) 17:20, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • The WP:NPA violations need to stop. An additional warning has been placed on your user talk page. Alansohn 21:36, 6 July 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.