Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2011 First Flight High School protests and walkouts

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The result was : snowball deletion, not notable/unreferenced. - Mike Rosoft (talk) 13:38, 19 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

2011 First Flight High School protests and walkouts

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Unremarkable essay on a local event based solely on original research. Lacks any coverage in 3rd party sources, Google News is bring up nothing on the subject. RadioFan (talk) 03:32, 16 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of North Carolina-related deletion discussions. —RadioFan (talk) 10:17, 16 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Education-related deletion discussions. —RadioFan (talk) 10:17, 16 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete, utterly non-notable, not mentiomed in the the third party refs given. Hairhorn (talk) 13:25, 16 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It was absoulutley referenced. That is not a reason for deletion.--71.80.52.242 (talk) 22:39, 16 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Lack of third party coverage is a reason for deletion, sorry. Hairhorn (talk) 00:24, 17 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I say delete it. There's close to zero sources on this walkout, and if so it's only a couple high schools, and relatively unimportant. If there were protests in the streets of the capital city, like in Wisconsin or Ohio or Michigan, then it deserves a spot on 2011 United States public employee protests, but not it's own article. When/if there are major Wisconsin-style protests in North Carolina, then yes give those protests it's own page. But when it's a relatively minor high school walkout, then no. It could get a mention on the page I posted earlier, but nothing other than that. MAINEiac4434 (talk) 18:07, 16 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

One out of 4 students participated in the walkout and most supported it. That should be pretty notable.--71.80.52.242 (talk) 22:39, 16 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - totally non-notable and un-noticed. --Orange Mike | Talk 20:23, 16 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I say keep. People have gotten arrested and suspended. There has been internet censorship at the school on Wikipedia over the protests.--71.80.52.242 (talk) 22:35, 16 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Do you have reliable sources that can be referenced describing those arrests? --RadioFan (talk) 01:25, 17 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - Not notable at all. Locally important but no impact outside of the school or town. --Tainter (talk) 22:51, 16 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - While recording the history of such local strike actions may be important to their participants, Wikipedia is not the place for such unsourced original publications. Carrite (talk) 01:53, 17 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Wikipedia is not a marketing tool. S51438 (talk) 03:42, 17 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. This article is referenced only to YouTube and Facebook (neither of which is an independent reliable source), and to sources that don't even mention these walkouts. If this incident isn't even being covered in the local media (or, for that matter, media anywhere else), it seems unlikely that it could be notable enough to be worthy of coverage in an encyclopedia directed at the entire world. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 07:11, 17 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. —• Gene93k (talk) 18:53, 17 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Comment all guidance to source this article has been ignored. Please dont ignore guidance to avoid inclusion of names of students or anyone else unless it is properly referenced. This appears to be a cute hoax but including names could lead to far more serious accusations of libel.--RadioFan (talk) 21:40, 18 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. The more I read this article, the less convinced I am that these protests and walkouts occurred in the first place. One would think that if there were noticeable protests like this at a high school, they would at least receive some media coverage as the subject of a moral panic being portrayed by local television stations and newspapers. Of course, I could be wrong, but until I see some reliable sources covering these events, I'm going to take this article with a grain of salt. (Note that the YouTube videos formerly used as sources for this article didn't depict any event that was recognizable as a protest or walkout.) --Metropolitan90 (talk) 02:39, 19 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. I've seen no media coverage of this, and if North Carolina is not a unionised state, then this makes even less sense. Seems very likely to be a hoax, or some minor things planned by local students (made all the more likely by the multiple mentions of 'Wikipedia collaboration'. — Huntster (t @ c) 03:49, 19 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, absence of evidence for the existence of this event isn't evidence of absence, but absence of evidence is definitely evidence of nonnotability. Without solid references, this easily fails one of our core policies. Nyttend (talk) 03:55, 19 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Not notable in the least bit. Strikerforce (talk) 04:26, 19 March 2011 (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.