Talk:Westside High School (Macon, Georgia)

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Georgia (U.S. state), a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the U.S. state of Georgia on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Georgia (U.S. state)Wikipedia:WikiProject Georgia (U.S. state)Template:WikiProject Georgia (U.S. state)Georgia (U.S. state) articles

Low

This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

WikiProject Georgia (U.S. state) To-do:

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Article requests : Crooked Creek (Georgia), Ed Defore Sports Complex, Audery Mill Creek, More (Georgia)... More (U.S.)...
Assess : Rate articles from Unassessed Georgia (U.S. state) articles and Unknown-importance Georgia (U.S. state) articles.
Citing sources : Unreferenced Georgia (U.S. state) articles
Cleanup : Cleanup listing for this project is available. See also the list by category.
Geographical coordinates : more Georgia (U.S. state) articles missing geocoordinate data
Infobox : Georgia (U.S. state) articles without infoboxes
Map : Wikipedia requested maps in Georgia (U.S. state)
Photo : Wikipedia requested photographs in Georgia (U.S. state)
Stubs : Work on stubs in articles in Georgia (U.S. state) stubs, Georgia (U.S. state) radio station stubs, Georgia (U.S. state) road stubs and Georgia (U.S. state) geography stubs.
Other : *Deletion sorting: Please see the collection of discussions on the deletion of articles related to Georgia (U.S. state) - compiled by WikiProject Deletion sorting
- Help out with articles placed in Category:Georgia (U.S. state) articles needing attention
- Notability: Articles with notability concerns, listed at WikiProject Notability
- Tag the talk pages of Georgia (U.S. state)-related articles with the {{WikiProject Georgia (U.S. state)}} banner.
- Get Georgia (U.S. state) to a featured article quality standard

Schools Low‑importance

	Schools portal This article is related to WikiProject Schools, a collaborative effort to write quality articles about schools around the world. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page.SchoolsWikipedia:WikiProject SchoolsTemplate:WikiProject Schoolsschool articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Notability and deletion

While in my opinion high school articles are not note-worthy, I agree that there are plenty abound on this site. As such, I am in agreement with User: LaMenta3 that this article should not be deleted, and remain a valid article. However, I do agree with the inital proposal from User: Aventius that the final paragraph should be removed. This paragraph is certain self-promotion of the authro, and does not pertain any significance to the subject of the article itself. It is also not fair to include informtation on any awards or extra-curricular activities within the school, unless commenting on all such awards/extra-currculars, including athletics and arts programs. Singling out one specific extra-curricular activity and award is promoting favoritsm. Also, I believe this article should be expanded on to remain a vaild article. As for the mention of personal attack, I cannot comment on the matter as I do not know the detailed situation between the two authors, but it does not appear to be a personal attack from an outsider's point of view.Chefsize 03:54, 7 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I saw the addition of the information about the newspaper as just a step in eventually including other important achievements of the school's prominent organizations. As you will notice, there is a section on athletics in this article, but it is admittedly underdeveloped. A number of articles on schools and universities mention student media organizations to the exclusion of many other organizations within the institution, especially when the publication is not itself notable enough to have its own article. I would add additional content to develop this article, but I never attended school there and no longer live in the area, so I don't know enough about it. Perhaps I can contact some people I know who are more knowledgeable than I to develop the content. LaMenta3 04:15, 7 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Notability and deletion

This article has been in existence for over a year and has not been contested in its notability. Indeed it is notable for a high school as it is the largest in its district and located in one of Georgia's major cities (Macon), likely making it one of the largest high schools in the state. Further, the school is home to a fairly unique engineering magnet program. There are articles about much less notable high schools on Wikipedia, though I don't particularly advocate their deletion either. Also, it seems that the reason given for deletion is meant as a personal attack on one of the contributors to the article, which hardly seems appropriate. LaMenta3 02:43, 7 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]