Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hedgesville High School
The overwhelming result of AFDs in recent years (though not included in the relevant notability guideline ) has been to keep articles for verifiable high schools. The real question, then, is the nominator's  concern that the high school's existence is unverifiable. The existence of this high school can be verified by checking Google Book search, which gives the history of the Hedgesville high school back to construction of the first high school building there in 1866, replaced by newer buildings in 1884 and 1926: http://books.google.com/books?id=7oJeb5AHmhkC&pg=PA297&dq=%22Hedgesville+High+School%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=MA9ET7K_PMGKgwfmtuWLCA&ved=0CD Another book states that President G.W. Bush spoke there:http://books.google.com/books?id=l8x8VWoXjWUC&pg=PA1694&dq=%22Hedgesville+High+School%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=CRBET_exLOjz0gGItfS0Bw&ved=0CEcQ6AEwBDgK#v=onepage&q=%22Hedgesville%20High%20School%22&f=false. Google News archive has a number of stories which also verify the school's existence: http://www.journal-news.net/page/content.detail/id/533358.html?nav=5009,http://www.journal-news.net/page/content.detail/id/516010.html,  http://www.usatoday.com/sports/preps/football/2004-09-01-rally-ruins-field_x.htm, http://www.journal-news.net/page/content.detail/id/501432.html, http://www.journal-news.net/page/content.detail/id/506720.html?nav=5006, http://www.journal-news.net/page/content.detail/id/571955/All-American.html?nav=5006. Additionally, the school has a webpage:http://www.edline.net/pages/hedgesville_high_school which can be used to detect vandal edits which differ from what is presented there. The fact that the article gets vandalize is not a ground for deletion, but rather for watchlisting it and reverting the vandalism, or possible for some degree of protection for the article. I have removed some puffery about several students which lacked reliable secondary sources
— User:Edison, 21:48, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:ORG (Wikipedia:Notability)