Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Albany High School

Albany High School (moved to Albany High School, Georgia)

Appears to be being used as a message board/vanity site/school project. At best this page requires significant revision - at worst it is completely irrelevant. ESkog 01:12, 10 May 2005 (UTC)

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If someone feels as if the page Albany High School is a message board, it is not. No posting is allowed, and if that happens, which it hasn't than it would not be me that does it. It also is not a school project. This page is no way associated with Albany High School or the Dougherty County School System. I created it for one reason, and one reason alone; to inform anyone who cares about this school.

And futher more, I would like to add, that both the articles that ESkog has mainly contributed to, appear to be about sports arenas. I don't understand about how explaining the structures and facilities of two sporting complexes is a less "vanity site" than a page about a respected high school.

I would ask that this page not be considered for deletion because I have worked very hard on it, and I believe that it can offer useful information about Albany High. If there are any revisions or edits to this page that I could make to make a worse candidate for deletion, please let me know. Twister3328

• After a bit of discussion and looking further, I would actually vote that this should be revised or cleaned up rather than deleted. Apologies for the needless vfd - I know that's a pet peeve of many and, as Twister points out, I am still fairly new here as well. From looking at what I might consider a "model" high school entry, I think a great deal of the article may need to be removed, such as the list of faculty or the detailed descriptions of clubs which could be listed under thousands of high schools. ESkog 02:25, 10 May 2005 (UTC)

• (Weak) keep and cleanup. Alai 02:59, 10 May 2005 (UTC)

• Move to more appropriate name, e.g. Albany High School, Albany, Georgia, U.S.A., because there is Albany, Western Australia and numerous examples of Georgia. Admittedly, there is no Albany High School in Albany, Western Australia, but it has an "Albany Senior High School" and a "North Albany Senior High School" [1]. Peter Ellis 05:47, 10 May 2005 (UTC) ... and on the other side of Australia, in Brisbane, Queensland, there is Albany Creek State High School. Peter Ellis 05:52, 10 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep All schools should have an article and this one already has lots of info. Gillian Tipson 06:30, 10 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Probably needs a cleanup. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 07:57, 10 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, unless they display some encyclopedic information rather than a loooong list of staff members. Radiant_* 08:54, May 10, 2005 (UTC)
• Merge into the appropriate geographical article once all the extraneous info that is suitable for their website but not an encyclopedia had been excised. Average Earthman 09:14, 10 May 2005 (UTC)
• Merge into Albany, Georgia and delete. If this was written by someone in that school, maybe s/he could form a school project to expand the town article. - Skysmith 10:11, 10 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, could be worth finding a better title as per Peter Ellis. -- Lochaber 15:25, 10 May 2005 (UTC)
• Move - I agree with Peter Ellis. If this article is to be kept, it needs to be moved to a more specific article title. It may be located in a larger and more politically significant Albany, but it's still ultimately just a high school, so its location does not afford this article superior right to the article name over Albany SHS in WA. Also, although the Western Australian school is named "Albany Senior High School", it is common practice in these parts to just refer to these schools as "Albany High". - Mark 15:59, 10 May 2005 (UTC) Edit: I see the page has now been moved to a more appropriate title. Keep. - Mark 16:08, 10 May 2005 (UTC)
• extreme delete. How is this article to be maintained? All it contains is a lot of boring info on after-school clubs. yawn. Dunc|☺ 16:18, 10 May 2005 (UTC)
• keep it seems to be maintained ok to me Yuckfoo 17:16, 10 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete Even if all the information on this page were relevant, I see it getting out of date super-fast. Best left for the high school's own website where it can be better maintained. Kweee 18:14, 10 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Comment Remember that you can remove out-of-date and hard-to-maintain information from the article *now*. There is no need to delete the article simply because you think some of the content is inappropriate. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 18:18, 10 May 2005 (UTC)
• Condense and Merge with the appropriate geographic or school district article. --Carnildo 19:33, 10 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep 119-year old school. Needs its BEEFSTEW factor jacked up, but surely a school this old has had some notable alums. -- BDAbramson ^thimk 20:51, 2005 May 10 (UTC)
  • I've looked at Beefstew, it's utterly pointless. It dismisses many perfectly encyclopedic facts that one would expect to want to know about a school. Whether a school is ancient or new or has notable alumni is beside the point--schools are inherently verifiable and hence encyclopedic. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 22:11, 10 May 2005 (UTC)
  • BECAUSE THE ARTICLE, Albany High School, Georgia HAS STIRRED SUCH A "CONTROVERSY" AMONG MANY WIKIPEDIA MEMBERS (THAT SEEM TO HAVE NOTHING BETTER TO DO THAN LOOK FOR INNOCENT PAGES TO DELETE), I HAVE DECIDED THAT IT SHOULD BE DELETED IMMEDIATELY. IT ONLY STARTED AS A SIMPLE SCHOOL PAGE, BUT I DO NOT BELIEVE IT IS WORTH ALL OF THIS DEBATE FOR SOMETHING SO UMIMPORTANT. SO TO ALL THOSE WIKIPEDIA MEMBERS: YOU CAN BE GLAD YOU STOPPED A "WORTHLESS" PAGE FROM BEING PUBLISHED TO AN ONLINE ENCYCLOPEDIA THAT HAS AN ALMOST "INFINATE" AMOUNT OF SPACE, AND MAY YOU HAVE A LIFETIME OF HAPPINESS EDITING AND DELETING PAGES THAT IN NO WAY AFFECT YOU IN ANY WAY. THANK YOU. Twister3328

• 'Keep. I've restored the article from its history. Please don't shout. It's rude and unnecessary. I think you should take a little break now. Ground Zero 22:02, 10 May 2005 (UTC)