The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.
Just for that, I am going to vote Delete as a reminder that consensus was hardly established to keep schools; consensus was established to stop the pointless debating as it was becoming emotional and disruptive. Eusebeus12:45, 13 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete WP:SCHOOl says '"Thus, the only fitting criterion is how much verifiable, NPOV information can be found on the school"'. In this, not much, so delete. BrownHairedGirl02:04, 13 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Are you arguing that no verifiable, NPOV information can be found on this school, or just that this information hasn't yet found its way into this article? --djrobgordon02:15, 13 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep and list on Schoolwatch. Does not currently meet WP:SCHOOL guideline, since it has only two sentences, but the guideline also suggests giving Schoolwatch a shot at it before deleting it. This vote is to do so. If Schoolwatch can't do anything with it, let it be deleted. Powers13:38, 13 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Have what? And indeed, I know WP:SCHOOL calls for merging, but at the time I voted there was nothing to merge. Powers19:12, 13 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
KeepIf a suitable target is found, and its not expanded, it can be merged if somebody wishes to. --Rob 17:22, 13 March 2006 (UTC) Amended: nobody is interested in doing any decent merges (or even discussing any issues related to them), so I shouldn't pretend that's possible. --Rob00:37, 17 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. To answer the nom's question: Yes, we need a page on an Elementary school in a suburb of Vancouver. The article had been expanded nicely and can only get better over time. Suggest that someone close this nom as soon as possible. -- JJay19:20, 13 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep and kill the author or WP:SCHOOL Are all schools notable in my opinion? HELL NO. Are some? Yes, but this one isn't. However my opinion is my opinion, not wiki policy. Mike (TC)21:24, 13 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Just looking at the template on that page makes me believe that by this time in 2007 half of wikipedia will be articles about schools, roads, and train stations. However, pending a change in our school notability criteria it doesn't make sense to just delete the one's that get sent to AfD by unsuspecting newpages patrollers who don't realize that school articles never get deleted. savidan(talk)(e@)22:42, 14 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
While I personally agree that most schools (this one included) aren't notable enough to deserve Wikipedia articles, AFD consensus has fairly consistently gone against my view. I don't see a convincing case for singling this one out as a uniquely non-notable example of schools. Keep unless you're genuinely interested in trying to rebuild a consensus against schools in general (and good luck to you if you try.) Bearcat19:43, 15 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete its already clear that there are some people who feel that the debat on schools is closed and the result is that every school is notable. It's not clear to me that the debate is closed and it is clear to me that absent some dictate most schools are not notable, including this one. Carlossuarez4621:24, 15 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete It's incredibly hard for me to imagine any school below a High School level as notable in any way unless it was at one point taken over by terrorists, and even in that case we don't have an article for the school itself, just the incident. WP:SCHOOL needs to be seriously revised. -AKMask17:56, 16 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
You get right on that, AKMask. And when you're done, you can start working on revising the inclusion criteria for Pokemon characters, professional ball players of all sorts, train stations, small towns, Star Wars fiction... Silensor18:01, 16 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Are you honestly arguing that 3 sentences means notability? I can not imagine someone thinking that WP:SCHOOL in its current state is acceptable. I can see inclusionist principals wanting to keep many schools, but 3 sentences for notability is beyond the pale. -AKMask19:10, 16 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
In the future, when you are dissatisfied with the length of any given article, try expanding it. That's what Wikipedia is all about. Silensor19:23, 16 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
But we would never say that for a corporation. Sometimes they just aren't notable. Yet that never happens with schools because of this inane policy. JoshuaZ19:24, 16 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Obviously not everyone thinks it is an inane policy, otherwise it wouldn't exist, but you are welcome to express your POV here or on the respective guideline pages. Silensor19:30, 16 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
It is not an inane policy, because, well, it's not policy yet. It's still at the proposed policy level, which is where anything starts in that field. It's an active policy proposal, meaning its being fixed, debated and utilized, which is better then the failed policies that pop up every now and then, but I could put up a policy proposal page stating anything I want and try to get it accepted. Doesn't mean it's binding till it reaches the accepted policy stage. -AKMask19:38, 16 March 2006 (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.