Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rizal National Science High School
Just because your school's administration did not give their permission to post this article doesn't give us enough reason to delete this article based on Wikipedia guidelines. In fact, any such permission or sanction is never needed anyway. Besides, even an alumni or a casual passerby to this school with enough reliable contacts willing to give a helping hand will be able to create the article anyway; do you think Wikipedia needs to contact the living descendants of Jose Rizal's family just to create the article about him? Or, to consider contemporary examples, I don't think local celebrities such as Regine Velasquez, Francis Escudero and maybe even Victor Wood ever came to Wikipedia to complain that they weren't happy the article about them existed. Take a look around at the articles about schools and colleges on Wikipedia...chances are, they're not even sanctioned by their respective administrations. University of the Philippines? Ateneo de Manila University? University of Santo Tomas? Xavier School? Name it, it's here. And not one of their administrators complained and asked to have the articles removed. As for any "damage", I wasn't able to find any information that might be considered demeaning or degrading to your school, so if ever you find one such information, I invite you to |go ahead and edit, you're welcome to do so (and more so since you admitted it's your school). With regard to the school itself...there are only few public science high schools in the Philippines, and these are almost always created by virtue of a republic act, so I'd go ''against'' deleting this article on the grounds that it's like state colleges and universities (like UP and PLM and the other State Universities in most major provinces) and, as a science high school, is legally on the same level as the Philippine Science High School. I would rather push for improving this article
— User:Titopao, 22:28, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:BOLD (Wikipedia:Be bold)