Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/East Leyden High School

This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record.
The result of the debate was 15 Delete / 7 Keep / 1 Redirect (Leyden High School District). Delete. -- AllyUnion (talk) 00:41, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] East Leyden High School

High school vanity stub Bumm13 16:38, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)

• Delete Unless there's really something that distinguishes East Leyden H.S. from other U.S. high schools, it's simply vanity. It's also a stub with only information about the city it is located in. Bumm13 16:05, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Absolutely, positively useless single-sentence nanostub. Should be a speedy delete under criterion #4 IMO...and not because it's about a school. I'd vote the same for any subject presented this poorly. - Lucky 6.9 23:53, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Same anonymous editor created a dozen or two such microstubs. IIRC he was also responsible for the prank article Smith N. Jones High School which doesn't speak well for the reliability of his other creations. Wile E. Heresiarch 00:39, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Public institutions are inherently notable. What goes for suburbs and railway stations goes for schools.--Centauri 02:10, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Delete unless expanded to show notability.-gadfium 03:00, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Delete as above. —Korath (Talk) 03:28, Jan 28, 2005 (UTC)
• Comment: holy crow, are we still debating every school article here? Why is it that every other policy on Wikipedia gets hashed out through existing processes and this never does, or people refuse to accept the policy that's established? This is the very thing that made me give up participating in the Vfd process once before. It's madness, I tell you, madness. Jgm 03:31, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Based on the current number of school VFDs I think the answer to your question is "yes", unfortunately. --Centauri 08:47, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I strongly agree, and appreciate the The Bridge Over the River Kwai reference. Edeans 08:20, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. It may be worthwhile to add an education section to the respective geographic article, but these sub-sub stubs only serve to irritate and annoy. And no, filling the article out with pointless blather wouldn't help. Average Earthman 13:54, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Useless sub-stub. Gamaliel 04:03, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Transwiki to WikiSchools and DELETE. Denni☯ 05:19, 2005 Jan 29 (UTC)
  • Keep This is the first time I've heard of Wikischools. What's the point of such a site? How many people will ever visit it? I want Wikipedia to be all embracing. Philip 15:10, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)
    • Google says there is no WikiSchools. --Idont Havaname 01:38, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Delete It's not a subject, it's a sentence. If there was any information at all other than the notation that it is a school, I would vote for keep.... but as there isn't, I'll pass.Weaponofmassinstruction 00:44, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, non-notable. --Idont Havaname 01:38, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Delete or redir to Leyden High School District 212 which has more info on the school. Niteowlneils 01:25, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Non-notable vanity stub. Jayjg ^(talk) 03:24, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. All public institutions are *not* notable. — Stevie is the man! ^{Talk | Contrib} 08:03, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, useful school stub. GRider\^talk 18:27, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Carrp 18:27, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Notability not established. Indrian 23:53, Jan 31, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. As said. —Ben Brockert (42) 00:53, Feb 1, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Xezbeth 06:16, Feb 1, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete this schoolcruft. Edeans 08:20, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Schools are inherently notable. No such thing as school articles being vanity or schoolcruft. --Andylkl 10:17, Feb 1, 2005 (UTC)
• Except of course, when the only editor of the article is one who went there, and when that only editor is the only person on the entire Wikipedia in a position to improve the quality and accuracy of the article (which they seldom will do). Schools are not inherently notable; the proliferation of such articles is not a testament to WP's coverage, but to its systemic bias. Delete. Lacrimosus 19:42, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Mmmmmm, schoolcruft. It's whats for dinner. —RaD Man (talk) 22:05, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Keep but Expand, schools are notable CunningLinguist 01:39, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Keep but Expand. There's nothing especially notable about most of the other high schools listed in Wikipedia either. --BaronLarf 17:25, Feb 7, 2005 (UTC)
  • Two wrongs don't make a right. —Korath (Talk) 18:12, Feb 7, 2005 (UTC)

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