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The result was delete. If anyone wants to take on the responsibility of salvaging the content for use elsewhere, I'm happy to userfy on request. Skomorokh 00:57, 16 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Afterschool, Out of School Time (OST), Extended Day

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Either an excerpt from a student essay or from a website, can't decide which, but it does seem rather promotional -- leaning towards promotional, since the article was created by User:Afterschool.edu (who also removed the prod after providing three external links in lieu of references). Ir's an original research essay about how afterschool activities are important, but it's not an encyclopedia article, nor do I think it can be one. ArglebargleIV (talk) 18:37, 8 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Original research piece. Reads like a personal essay rather than a reference article. After PROD, author added three references, one of which was to the author's own organization's home page; another to the home page of the Newspaper Association of America, which doesn't seem to be an inherently authoritative source of information on afterschool programs, nor does the word "school" appear anywhere on that page; and the third, which I've deleted, was the name of some person. No objective, third-party reliable sources. —Largo Plazo (talk) 18:41, 8 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. —TerriersFan (talk) 19:04, 8 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Source material, original work, misguided use of wikipedia at best. The creator(s) of the article probably do have the knowledge base to help improve articles like Extended day program and After-school activity with cites if they tried.--Milowent (talk) 20:03, 8 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: Any worthwhile material here could be added to After-school activity.--RDBury (talk) 03:01, 9 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Merge any useable information from this essay into Extended day program and After-school activity -- Александр Дмитрий (Alexandr Dmitri) (talk) 06:34, 9 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Merge with After-school activity. The current title of the article is a major roadblock to usability. These other alternative names can be added as a parenthetical to that article, but a user would never type all three in sequence separated by commas. I can't see any difference in intended scope between this article and After-school activity. Racepacket (talk) 12:29, 9 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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