Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Clonkeen College

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The result of the debate was keep (no consensus). Mindspillage (spill yours?) 05:37, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Clonkeen College

A Catholic high school in Ireland with a BEEFSTEW score of 0. At present, my VfD summary's longer than the actual article. sɪzlæk [ +t, +c ] 02:13, Apr 23, 2005 (UTC)

The BEEFSTEW score's gone up to 3. sɪzlæk [ +t, +c ] 07:23, Apr 28, 2005 (UTC)

• Delete, not notable. Megan1967 02:38, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, should be given longer than 3 minutes to try and accumulate some BEEFSTEW. Kappa 02:54, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC) Withdraw vote, I googled this and couldn't find enough to make an interesting article, will change my mind if anyone else wants to try. Kappa 11:10, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • My vote goes back to keep because of GRider's efforts. Failing keep, it should be merged with Blackrock. Kappa 23:45, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

• • Per Kappa's comment, I will reserve voting until 48 hours from this posting, then vote based on what's there. -- 8^D ^gab 04:01, 2005 Apr 23 (UTC)
  • Provisional Keep If the article expands at all. Klonimus 05:09, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Public insititution. Existence verified. --Centauri 05:55, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Delete Very short articles with little or no context What makes that school encyclopedic? Vegaswikian 06:06, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, absence of claim/evidence of notability. Everyking 07:21, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, non-notable, ?vanity? ?(wordhere)cruft?, etc. Master Thief Garrett 10:29, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Comment: Account User:Master Thief Garrett was created 2 weeks ago. Welcome to Wikipedia. —RaD Man (talk) 08:01, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Merge with Blackrock. Average Earthman 11:01, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. If there was anything of substance to add, it could have been by now. -- 8^D ^gab 06:39, 2005 Apr 25 (UTC)
• Merge into Blackrock and delete - Skysmith 08:37, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, I trust Kappa's skills in finding notability and if he doesn't find any, there probably isn't any. Radiant_* 10:51, Apr 25, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, eternal substub. Korath (Talk) 14:02, Apr 25, 2005 (UTC)
• keep because it is notable plus our founder thinks so too [1] Yuckfoo 00:51, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • Somehow I failed to find the words notable or Clonkeen College in that over-quoted text. Am I just missing them? Indrian 04:42, Apr 26, 2005 (UTC)
  • I realize some people browse at very, very low resolution, but I fail to see how "Clonkeen College is a non-fee paying Christian Brothers secondary school in Blackrock, Co. Dublin."—that's the article's full content—is a decent, verifiable, well-cited, two page article like the sort we should be accommodating. In fact, it rather looks like "Randolph School is a private school in Huntsville, Alabama, US", which that poor abused year-and-a-half old mailing list post says should be mass-deleted. —Korath (Talk) 08:10, Apr 26, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Notability not established. Indrian 04:42, Apr 26, 2005 (UTC)
• The article has been expanded but not in a way that I consider significant. (They have sports teams. What high school doesn't? They have alumni but none of the alumni are sufficiently notable to already have an article.) This is still a delete. Rossami (talk) 01:42, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • Apparently Glenn Quinn was misspelled the first time— the famous and now deceased Irish actor does have an article. —RaD Man (talk) 07:03, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, it's made some serious improvements since being added to GRider's Schoolwatch and will undoubtedly improve. Can someone BEEFSTEW this? —RaD Man (talk) 06:25, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • Looks to be about a three to me. "Serious improvements" is quite a reach. A founding date, a list of sports, and three alumni would be a minor improvement in my book. Indrian 06:30, Apr 27, 2005 (UTC)
    • Its gone from uninformative substub with a BEEFSTEW of 0 to a score of 3. There is no point in debating the seriousness of the improvements made so far. —RaD Man (talk) 06:37, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Delete Not notable, not interesting. The JPS 19:30, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Isn't the precedent set by Sunset High School (Portland) to keep high schools? Kingturtle 07:17, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • No, there is no consensus or policy. Some get kept, some get deleted, often determined by who took a wikibreak any given week. Indrian 07:22, Apr 28, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Not notable. —Lowellian (talk) 07:32, Apr 28, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Notability still not established. Jonathunder 08:48, 2005 Apr 28 (UTC)
• Keep, what is the policy on these? Maggie311 09:19, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • Currently there is no official policy, but there is a lot of fighting, you may want to look at some other current school Vfds. Some people propose schools articles could be merged until/unless they reach a certain size and informativeness. See also WP:BEEFSTEW, a widely used measure. Kappa 09:31, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Delete not notable. Grue 18:02, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Keep passes the pokemon comparativity notability test. ;)  ALKIVAR™ 02:13, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, classic encyclopedia article --Tony Sidaway|Talk 18:50, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Articles about schools belong in Wikipedia --Zantastik 19:07, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Non-notable. Noisy | Talk 10:23, May 5, 2005 (UTC)

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