Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hingham Middle 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 keep (no consensus). Mindspillage (spill yours?) 05:15, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Hingham Middle School

Non-notable. Info subject to change. Denni☯ 00:48, 2005 May 27 (UTC)

• Keep and expand, schools are plenty notable. Possible merge candidate if not expanded in a reasonable space of time. Kappa 01:17, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Cleaned it up a bit. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 01:18, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Schools belong on WP. Merge if you wanna make the effort. --Unfocused 02:12, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete - Wikipedia is not a yellow pages. -- Cyrius|✎ 02:30, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, no reason to delete. Christopher Parham (talk) 02:38, 2005 May 27 (UTC)
• Delete not notable. Force10 04:56, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
• Comment. Oh no not another school article! Wikipedia:Schools. Sjakkalle 06:13, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
• Question: Not too long ago we would delete school articles by the bushel basket-full without a second glance. Many were better than this one. Did (unwritten?) policy change and now schools are notable? Should some write a rambot for American schools? -Casito⇝Talk 06:14, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
  • No, it's just that the people who want to keep them are being more active now. -- Cyrius|✎ 06:17, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
    • People are heavily opposed to rambotting such things. It's basically a matter of waves; presently, a lot of people are vocally opposed to any such deletion, hence the daily three-page shouting matches on the topic. It is quite possible that this will be different a couple months from now. Radiant_* 08:44, May 27, 2005 (UTC)
      • My impression of this portion of the community was that it was biased toward people who enjoyed deleting these pages. I.e. people who enjoyed the power of deletion would tend to migrate here. That induced a bias that seemingly needed to be countered. I expect that when enough people saw their carefully constructed pages get flushed, they came here to balance things out. Like me, for example. :) — RJH 15:34, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
        • No wonder people use "deletionist" like it's a dirty word. Yeesh. I'm actually offended by this. -- Cyrius|✎ 19:04, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
    • I'd definitely oppose any move to rambot school entries. Let them grow organically as and when individuals choose to enter them. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 12:49, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep - no harm in keeping. Rangerdude 06:44, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Schools should be subject to the same standards of notability as any other subject, and this one doesn't make the cut. Beta_M ^talk, |^contrib (Ë-Mail)
• Delete - no harm in deleting. Radiant_* 08:44, May 27, 2005 (UTC)
• delete not notable. Schoolcruft. Dunc|☺ 10:21, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete schools are generally not notable. Cedars 13:57, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
• Comment. People should stop producing these school stubs until Wikipedia:Schools makes up their minds :D
• Keep, needs expansion. -- Lochaber 14:05, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Quale 15:23, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep pending outcome of Wikipedia:Schools. — RJH 15:29, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
• Merge with Hingham School District --Carnildo 18:12, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

Hingham Middle School is the only public school in Hingham, Massachusetts. It consists of three grades, 6-8. It is located at 1103 Main Street, Hingham, MA 02043. The principal is currently Roger Boddie, and the two Assistant Principals are Derek Smith and David Riordan. The school is part of the Hingham School District.

• Only public school in small town, part of school district with same name as town. Adress and principles named. I don't see much useful info here. Delete, to make room for other article or transwiki to Student wikicity. Mgm|^(talk) 20:37, May 27, 2005 (UTC)
  • Comment: "To make room for other article"? Could you explain what that means? I profess myself utterly mystified. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 22:02, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, no evidence of notability. --W(t) 21:19, 2005 May 27 (UTC)
• keep. can we please stop this? go to wikipedia:schools instead Yuckfoo 21:45, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete I totally agree with Cyrius. There are millions of schools on Planet Earth much bigger and notable than Hingham Middle School. Why do people always forget that Wikipedia is an Encyclopedia. Is this school notable enough? Keep I think I'll write an article on my ex-school now. --IncMan 23:58, May 27, 2005 (UTC)
  • The very reason to keep these entries is that Wikipedia is an encyclopeda. A special kind of encyclopedia, one where we will never run out of paper. The fact that people of many nations are willing and able to work on the articles is good evidence of their notability--that is, verifiable, neutral information can be obtained on the subjects. Please do feel free to enter articles about the schools that are bigger and more notable, or leave us to those who want to do so. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 22:25, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
    • Except when the database servers run out of disk space and MySQL crashes and we have a couple of days of downtime while the developers scramble to recover the data and hope that no more than a few minutes' worth of work has been lost. No, deleting articles won't help with the disk space problem, but this idea that we actually have infinite storage is just wrong. -- Cyrius|✎ 03:07, 28 May 2005 (UTC)
      • Comment At the end of May, 2005, the total database for all Wikipedia articles, in all languages, was only about 4.4 gigabytes. If there's a disk space shortage, it's not the articles causing it. Unfocused 05:18, 28 May 2005 (UTC)
        • You forgot about the old revisions, like everyone does. Those are approaching 40 gigabytes as a compressed dump just for the English Wikipedia. There's also MySQL's 'binlogs' which are necessary to the replication system and to restore the database if corruption happens, and they tend to occupy large amounts of space. -- Cyrius|✎ 06:31, 28 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Verifiable and NPOV. DoubleBlue (Talk) 23:35, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
• Merge with Hingham School District. JYolkowski // talk 23:47, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep - Notable school that deserves to stay. -CunningLinguist 03:02, 28 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, clean-up, and edit.--JuntungWu 10:11, 28 May 2005 (UTC)
• Merge into Hingham School District per Wikipedia:Schools. Encourage users not to clog VfD with schools; merge and improve, don't delete. --BaronLarf 22:16, May 31, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep improving this article. —RaD Man (talk 07:54, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Funny how all those voting with cute slogans like "all schools are notable! Keep and expand!" rarely if ever do actually expansion work. Neutrality^talk 04:26, Jun 2, 2005 (UTC)

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