Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/High school basketball

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The result was speedy keep. Nomination withdrawn. (non-admin closure)‎ — Paper Luigi ^{T • C} 22:13, 11 February 2024 (UTC) [reply]

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High school basketball[edit]

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Not sure where the content can be drawn from. Do high school teams meet the general notability guidelines? Certainly some professional players rose from the ranks in high school, but is the high school bracket noteworthy for an encyclopedia? I'm not going to say it isn't. It's just that this article is one sentence long and doesn't really justify its own page. It's as brief as a dictionary entry. — Paper Luigi ^{T • C} 04:54, 11 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect back to Basketball#High school basketball. High school basketball had been a redirect there from 2007 until yesterday. I can't completely rule out the possibility that there ought to be a separate article for high school basketball; after all, there is one for high school football. But this article is one sentence long, shorter than the section on high school basketball in the Basketball article. If editors think there ought to be a separate article about high school basketball, they should prepare it as a draft and then move it to articlespace, rather than creating a one-sentence article and hoping that it will be better someday. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 05:55, 11 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sports-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 05:57, 11 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Basketball-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 05:57, 11 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 05:57, 11 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 08:05, 11 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep — High school basketball had a major impact on 20th century American culture and has probably thousands or millions of high-quality citations from reliable independent third-party sources, plainly meeting WP:GNG. The articles written about Hoosiers alone are enough to complete the article. Pretty massive oversight for Wikipedia to not have this article until 2024.

Please remember that WP:Deletion is not cleanup and the current stub status of the article after one day of existance has no relevance to its notability. All deletion arguments against this article are WP:SURMOUNTABLE.

PK-WIKI (talk) 17:19, 11 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that it has left a very large imprint on culture in North America, and this article has much potential as a secondary topic for Basketball. Given the article's short length, it should be heavily expanded to include everything at Basketball#High school basketball and then some. The issue is that this article was created over a redirect that pointed to Basketball#High school basketball, which is more comprehensive on the subject than this one, and until there's interest in writing a full-length article, this would really be better as a redirect.

I am going to withdraw this nomination and place a cleanup tag on the page. — Paper Luigi ^{T • C} 22:12, 11 February 2024 (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.