Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kearny High School (San Diego, California)
Thanks for the comments.  I might need to reevaluate how I'm going about this (all in the interests of information literacy).  As a final comment in the debate before I step back and allow it to continue, I will simply underscore my argument.  Kearny has graduated thousands of students over the years.  There are six listed as "notable" on the school's Wiki page.  That strikes me as rather insignificant, as it would for any school, using the same criteria.  As for mention in "independent sources," such as newspapers and web sites, we need to keep in mind that Kearny is a school located in a major metropolitan area.  It's certain to get mentioned here and there in the local press.  The key is ''why''.  Why does it get mentioned in the local press?  Is it because of some great or notable things that are done by the school, its students, its faculty, or its administration?  Or is it simply because some sports figure, actor, or writer happened to attend?  Those things don't establish the ''school'' as notable or worthy of an encyclopedia entry.  As we peruse the list of proposed deletions of schools, we see quite a few that include recommendations for merging with school district pages and what-not, mostly because notability has not been established.  I'll argue that the "notability" guidelines are fairly loose and subject to interpretation.  As a resident of the area with no ax to grind, I simply don't find Kearny (or most of the other schools listed) as notable under any reasonable standard or even a reasonable interpretation of .  However, Wikipedia is about consensus and community, so I will leave that as the last word from me on the issue and gladly accept the consensus and outcome.  Thanks to all for the participation in this process
— User:Nascentatheist, 17:53, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:NOT (Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not)