Restrict delete operation on a node referenced by another node

I am using References module to make a node reference in my course content type that reference to school content type (a course belong to one school and a school have many courses).

Now what I want is if I’m going to delete a school, the delete operation will not be completed if the school referenced by any courses.

I’ve read hook_node_delete() and hook_delete(), written them in my custom module, tried to dpm($node) but no use!

function mymodule_delete($node) {     dpm($node); } function mymodule_node_delete($node) {     dpm($node); } 

The school node still be deleted!

According to hook_node_info() , I create:

function mymodule_node_info() {   return array(      'school' => array(       'name' => t('School'),       'base' => 'school',       'description' => t('A short description'),     )   ); } 

base: (required) The base name for implementations of node-type-specific hooks that respond to this node type. Base is usually the name of the module or ‘node_content’, but not always

And then in my mymodule.module:

function school_delete($node) {     dpm($node); } 

The code still not working!

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