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Bowral High School

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This article does not cite sources and heavily relies on (what appears to be) original research. Therefore, I believe it does not meet the Wikipedia standards. ❂stringDTD❂ 10:52, 14 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. Hhkohh (talk) 14:58, 14 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. Hhkohh (talk) 14:58, 14 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Australia-related deletion discussions. Hhkohh (talk) 14:58, 14 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep notable school in Bowral. There are two major schools: Bowral Public School (K-6) and Bowral High School (7-12). Here's a listing from Highland NSW official website [1] AngusWOOF (bark • sniff) 17:22, 14 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    • No one is suggesting that the school doesn't exist, and that is not an official website. Nick-D (talk) 23:54, 14 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
      • D'oh, community website. Anyway there should be news articles about the schools. Here's some about their art students showing in Art Express [2] There's also a famous cricketer Don Bradman who went to Bowral High back when it was just a secondary school and before they established the new location in 1929/1930; he scored his first century at age 12 while at the school; sourced by multiple books and news articles [3]. [4] Also MP Jai Rowell is an alum there. [5] AngusWOOF (bark • sniff) 03:23, 15 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep as a high school. No reason to think that with local and hard copy searches sources cannot be found to meet WP:ORG. We keep high schools for very good reasons; not only do they influence the lives of thousands of people but they also play a significant part in their communities. Expansion not deletion is the way to go with such articles. Just Chilling (talk) 18:58, 14 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete Run of the mill small town high school. The above editors seem unaware that secondary schools are no longer considered automatically notable following a large scale RFC: I'd encourage them to re-read WP:SCHOOLOUTCOMES. Nick-D (talk) 23:53, 14 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    • Comment Thank you, that's the point I was trying to make. The school does not seem notable at all. It seems like it it just a school at a very small town and not notable (basing off that the article is unreferenced at all. ❂stringDTD❂ 02:15, 15 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
If it's just a concern about very small town, then you can redirect to Bowral until more details are written up beyond the paragraphs or so that describe the school systems back then. AngusWOOF (bark • sniff) 03:25, 15 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Trove news archive about new high school:

  • Dated 1928 back when it was still Bowral Intermediate High School [6]
  • Visit by Lord Chelmsford in 1921 to the Bowral District School [7]
  • 1925 plans to erect new high school [8]
  • 1927 construction plans [9]
  • 1928 enlargement of high school site [10]
  • 1929 foundation stone scheduled [11] laid [12] picture [13]
  • 1929 building in progress [14]
  • 1929 cost of high school $25,000 and description of building [15]
  • 1930 announcement that school has been classified raised to second class [16]
  • 1930 Official opening news article [17] [18] [19]
  • 1930 Speech Day and progress report by headmaster on class enrollment figures, erection of tennis courts, successes on the leaving exams - this is fairly significant coverage near the founding date of the facility [20]
  • 1930 Captains and Prefects named [21], Sports records created for school [22], 1931 scholarships for graduates [23]
  • 1935 PCA meeting for more courses (lists some courses that were present back in the days) [24]
  • 1935 death of headmaster Cowie [25]
  • 1937 Headmaster AD Watson (2nd headmaster of school) leaves [26]

The list goes on through other years but the stuff around 1930 is most pertinent as significant coverage by news sources. AngusWOOF (bark • sniff) 03:56, 15 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Some nim-come-poop (not directed at anyone in particular) is probably going to come along and say but, but, but, that's all local coverage and there's nothing special about this place! and to that I challenge them to take a random sample of 50 articles from each of these categories: Category:Public high schools in California, Category:Cities in Florida, and Category:Prisons in Texas. How many of them are run-of-the-mill subjects that just barely meet WP:GNG (or, perhaps in you opinion, don't meet WP:GNG at all)? Read over that argument closely before you cite it. The argument here isn't that one, two, ten, or even one hundred articles exist, the point is three quarters or more of Wikipedia content exists. If we nuke all of it, it won't just be Wikipedians noticing and talking about the mass removal of pages about little towns, moderately sized cities, schools, hospitals, etc. I point back to WP:NOTPAPER, and also to WP:IAR. PCHS-NJROTC (Messages)Have a blessed day. 11:16, 15 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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