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Poll winners

I've noticed in a number of Ohio high school articles that "poll championships" are being added to athletics sections (such as here at Ravenna High School (Ohio)), in addition to state championships from winning the state playoff. I can't speak for other states, but in Ohio, the AP does a final poll at the end of the regular season, but not after the state playoffs. Schools typically do not count a "poll championship" as a state championship, outside football where a playoff system did not exist until 1972.

The question here is, should this be standard to include in articles like we do with state championships? I can understand adding poll titles to places where a state playoff doesn't exist or poll championships won before a state playoff existed, and even mentioning it in the text of the athletics section, but in many of these cases, it's well after a playoff system was already implemented. To me it's just a case of a school having a #1 ranking at some point in the season (just happens to be end of the regular season as the playoffs start), which we typically wouldn't list other than in a more developed athletics section that has some history and background. Interested what other editors think since this is definitely a uniquely US issue with schools. --JonRidinger (talk) 23:21, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

Personally, I would consider them as legitimate, and should be added. It doesn’t really differ from the pre-BCS/CFP era of college, when “National Champions” were determined by the media. Colleges still claim those as national championships.

What you would consider them as is the question, are they just “Associated Press poll winners” or “Associated Press state championships” since there are also AP poll champions in other sports, which some schools don't officially consider “state championships” since there were post-season tournaments for those other sports like basketball, baseball, etc.

There are quite a few schools within Ohio, who consider them to be State Championships, since that was the only form of “State Championship” in football you could win pre-1972.

Examples of media and schools also claiming them as “State Championships” can be found here as well ,, these are just a few examples. JLN2026 (talk) 16:00, 10 June 2026 (UTC)

Like I said before, any era before a state tournament existed, listing the poll championship seems appropriate since that was the only way to determine them (in Ohio this seems to be almost exclusively for football as other sports had state tournaments decades before football). I think there should be a note that they are poll titles, though, and from who (like the AP or other news organization) but I'd still list them as state championships with any other they may have. That's part of why in Ohio school articles I label the sections as "State championships" rather than "OHSAA state championships" since many, like Massillon, count poll titles from the pre-tournament era and most sources also consider them as legit state titles. I know plenty of other schools that list those years (Mogadore is another) and have no issue with that. But for sports when they were simply #1 at the end of the regular season prior to an established state tournament, I can't find instances where schools list those on the same level as a state title from winning the state tournament and haven't seen any sources that consider those to be on par with a state championship won at a tournament. Again, this is not talking about eras when there was no state tournament; this is about listing poll "championships" that are separate from existing state tournaments. --JonRidinger (talk) 17:05, 10 June 2026 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Nordfyns Folkehøjskole

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Proposed deletion of Christ's Dominion Academy

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Poorly sourced article about a tiny private school. Tagged for notability concerns for almost 12 years, and for needing more citations 4 years. Fails the relevant notability guidelines. Lacks significant coverage.

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Loreto Convent School Pretoria — request edit pending review

I have a conflict of interest (disclosed on my user page) and

have posted a {{request edit}} on the talk page of

Loreto Convent School, Pretoria, proposing a substantial expansion

of the current stub. The school is an 1878 Catholic institution in the

Pretoria CBD and one of the oldest schools in the city in continuous

operation. The expansion draws on independent secondary sources

including the peer-reviewed Pretorius (2019) Fundamina article,

contemporary TIME magazine reporting on the 1976 SACBC decision,

and The Southern Cross. The full proposed text is at

User:FatimaRawjee/sandbox/Loreto.

Would welcome review by any editor with interest in South African

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For public United States school leads

This might be a silly question, however what is the consensus for the lead and the links to the Wikipedia pages for general American public high schools? For instance most leads may be something such as (name of school) is a four-year public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades, located in City, State, United States. What should the link be for "public high school"? I see mixed link location such as Secondary school, State school, and Secondary education in the United States, I didn't see anything specific in WP:WPSCH/AG#GT to answer this. Issac I Navarro (talk) 02:03, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

There is no consensus on the linked terms. Right now high school is a redirect to Secondary school. In the end all of the options, including 'Secondary education in the United States' satisfy the policies of MOS:LINK in that they link to relevant articles. In addition, you could also link "high school" or "public high school" to High school in the United States. There's no requirement that "public" and/or "high school" have to be linked at all either. If editors feel like there should be consistency, though, I wouldn't be opposed to it. --JonRidinger (talk) 02:40, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

I would support a consistent link. Issac I Navarro (talk) 04:20, 12 June 2026 (UTC)