Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Billericay School
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- 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.
The result of the debate was keep. Sjakkalle (Check!) 11:11, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Billericay School
There is no meaningful content in this article. A speedy tag was removed with the statement that speedying of schools is not valid - I could find no such staement on WP:CSD -- SGBailey 09:44, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
- Weak keep - tag as a stub (there being differences of opinion on whether schools are notable per se). —Whouk (talk) 11:16, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
- Weak keep. Since Bumrush High School, Idaho is notable (under the present idiotic criteria (still thats what happens when High School students are allowed to make policy)), then so is Bumrush High School, Essex. -- GWO
- I would agree with this if the article sid anything, but I paraphrase "Billericay school is a school in Billericay. It has blocks A to F". What is meaningful in that? <rant on> Can I add an article 17 Neasden High St reading "This house is made of bricks"? If someone were to add even a tiny bit of information (Queen Victoria went to school here; Oxygen was invented here; Headmaster John Doe was knighted for sevices to football in 1966; ...) Then I'd be happy to keep it. I mean it doesn't even say what age range it covers, what student type it has, what specialities it has - perhaps "Billericay school is famous for having no interesting features at all"? <rant off> -- SGBailey 12:11, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
- The present criteria (did I mention they were idiotic?) say schools are automatically notable, and that an article sucking is not a deletion criteria. Sanity says Delete, policy says Keep. I love bureaucracies. -- GWO
- Present criteria? Last I checked there presently is no school critera (and there never will be... but that is another discussion entirely), which means in practice everything gets kept.--Isotope23 16:11, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
- The present criteria (did I mention they were idiotic?) say schools are automatically notable, and that an article sucking is not a deletion criteria. Sanity says Delete, policy says Keep. I love bureaucracies. -- GWO
- I would agree with this if the article sid anything, but I paraphrase "Billericay school is a school in Billericay. It has blocks A to F". What is meaningful in that? <rant on> Can I add an article 17 Neasden High St reading "This house is made of bricks"? If someone were to add even a tiny bit of information (Queen Victoria went to school here; Oxygen was invented here; Headmaster John Doe was knighted for sevices to football in 1966; ...) Then I'd be happy to keep it. I mean it doesn't even say what age range it covers, what student type it has, what specialities it has - perhaps "Billericay school is famous for having no interesting features at all"? <rant off> -- SGBailey 12:11, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
- Keep as per Wikipedia:WikiProject Schools. I have added some information from the recent (2004) OFSTED report on the school - age range and size of the student body, plus a link to aforementioned report. (aeropagitica) (talk) 12:37, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
- Comment It will obviously be kept, so tag it for "cleanup-school" and then watch for several months as nobody bothers to clean it up.--Isotope23 15:57, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
- Hey This is my school. I've added a bit more to the article. You can't delete my school! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 195.93.21.104 (talk • contribs).
- Keep. As per practice. Schools are notable, why do people keep on putting them up for deletion; did they have a bad time during their school days and never wish to be reminded? Markb 17:52, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
- Keep per precedent for schools. --Rob 17:58, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
- Keep Schools are importanrt only to the people that attend them. If the students/ teachers of a school bother to write an article then why not? Wikipedia should contain the wealth of all knowledge - This would be useful to a student giving a presentation on the history of their school. I don't care about many articles on wikipedia but i don't put them up for delection. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 172.209.74.242 (talk • contribs).
- Here here! Three cheers for the Billericay School! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 88.106.125.104 (talk • contribs).
- Keep. Schools are notable, and have been consistantly kept on Wikipedia. I do not share the belief of 172.209.74.242 that Wikipedia should be a place for everything, but schools are sufficiently notable. --speak togadren 23:02, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
- Keep although I still dont understand why schools are notable and churches for example are not. Jcuk 23:39, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
- Two words: Systemic bias.--Isotope23 16:13, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
- 'Keep And please don't use this page for cleanup. Scranchuse 04:27, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
- Keep. There was some meaningful content when this was proposed for deletion. Looks like there is a whole lot more now. -- JJay 01:04, 10 May 2006 (UTC
Keep this page!!!!!!!!1 why not my friends made it and it is very well written and they worked hard on it! leave it alone! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 172.209.108.39 (talk • contribs).
- 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.
