Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Grainger High School

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. While there is some contention, overall consensus is that the article has now been sourced with news articles providing significant coverage. Public schools are explicitly excluded from WP:NORG so WP:AUD does not apply. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 22:22, 29 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Grainger High School

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Article has no significant sources other than school code identification and main page. given except for infobox content, school is not notable enough to have own article. AppalachianCentrist (talk) 21:28, 21 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. AppalachianCentrist (talk) 21:28, 21 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Education-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 21:31, 21 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Tennessee-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 21:31, 21 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

AppalachianCentrist, what did you do for WP:BEFORE? Just a few clicks on the "find sources" tab above yields numerous sources, including some mentions in works of fiction. If writers of fiction are setting their stories in this school, then that's a pretty clear indication they've made note of it, ya? John from Idegon (talk) 21:49, 21 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Comment *John from Idegon, the works of fiction you had mention regard a school of the same name but in a different state, for this circumstance, in North Carolina, not in relation to the school in Tennessee. Thanks, --AppalachianCentrist (talk) 23:10, 24 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete no sourcing indicates actual notability. The fact that this name is used for a setting of some fiction in another state in no way makes this real high school notable.John Pack Lambert (talk) 13:03, 22 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. I have added content and citations. It now passes WP:GNG. Cheeers! — Grand'mere Eugene (talk) 00:26, 23 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - This is a 12-year-old school and almost nothing has been published about it. No notable grads. No front-page scandals. What has been published in secondary sources has been added to the article, enabling it to squeak by WP:NSCHOOL. Magnolia677 (talk) 10:28, 23 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - the one thing which may be a claim of significance, the school's purchase of a large plot of land for an agricultural program, is sourced only to a local news site, which does not support passing WP:GNG. Otherwise it's a non-notable school doing non-notable school things. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 19:40, 23 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - Ivanvector, I agree that this article makes no particular claim of significance except that it is the largest school in Grainger County, Tennessee, but my understanding of WP:CCS includes this sentence from the essay you mentioned on speedy deletion: Significance is a lower standard than notability... the inclusion of reliable secondary sources may itself be an indication of significance... According to school notability criteria, Individual articles must usually meet either the Wikipedia general notability guideline or the organizations and companies subject-specific notability guideline... So if the criteria we use include significant coverage in reliable, secondary sources that are independent of the subject, at least three sources in the article, namely the Knoxville News Sentinel, WVLT-TV, and Citizen Tribune, specifically meet all GNG criteria. Cheers! – Grand'mere Eugene (talk) 23:22, 23 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Keep, largest school in the county and sufficient sources have been added now.--RZuo (talk) 19:54, 29 July 2020 (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.