Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Prairie 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 - kept - SimonP 01:50, May 13, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Prairie school (now The Prairie School)

Non-notable school article. Linuxbeak 19:59, Apr 29, 2005 (UTC)

• Keep. Non-notability not established. —RaD Man (talk) 21:06, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• A little POV too: "Although it is touted as being an elite school, it is very unfunded and does not offer the same educationial quality as public schools in the area." (Apparently spelling is one of their weak points.) —Wahoofive (talk) 21:11, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and cleanup/expand, or merge somewhere until expanded. Kappa 21:13, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Burgundavia 21:21, Apr 29, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep but cleanup and NPOV as necessary. -Fennec (はさばくのきつね) 21:23, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, Miss Beadle helped teach Mary her Braille. I mean, uh, notable school. Yeah, that's it. Mike H 21:25, Apr 29, 2005 (UTC)
  • lol Linuxbeak 21:30, Apr 29, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Once the POV is removed there'll be nothing left but "The Prairie School is a school." I do like the implication that wealthy parents, rather than academic achievement, is the only requirement for university admission. --Angr/_comhrá 22:26, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• keep it please Yuckfoo 22:39, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Redirect to Prairie School and merge add a dablink there if consensus is to keep the material. Gazpacho 23:53, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

• Why should a prep school be merged with an architectual movement? Gamaliel 23:59, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. Useless collection of generic facts about an insignificant school. This is not an encyclopedia article. Individual schools are not inherently encyclopedic and there is nothing to distinguish insignificant schools like this one from thousands of nearly identical schools around the world. WP:NOT states "Wikipedia is not a general knowledge base, that is, it is not an indiscriminate collection of items of information. That something is 100% true does not mean it is suitable for inclusion in an encyclopedia." Gamaliel 23:55, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Enthusiastic keep. Note that it has now been expanded. While still short (and expandible), it's now the best-contexted, most informative school article we've had up here in a while. Samaritan 00:53, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Keep of course. All schools deserve an article. Oliver Chettle 02:26, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Keep; what's the harm? If Wikipedia can make somebody happy at negligible cost, while maintaining the quality standard of an encyclopedia, why not do it? — Dan | Talk 03:13, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Keep... fine. Rdsmith4 pretty much said something that made me change my mind. Linuxbeak 03:17, Apr 30, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, Delete, Delete. There is essentially no NPOV content in this article; if all the non-NPOV content were removed the article would be a content-free stub. Might as well delete it. If someone actually puts content in the article, my opinion will be irrelevant and the closing admin will presumably ignore it. Kelly Martin 03:20, Apr 30, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. But if it is kept the POV needs to be removed. Comments about underfunded seem like an attempt to solicit funding from all of the big Johnson executives that send their kids there. billlund 03:26, Apr 30, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Wikipedia is not Jenga. Stop trying to pull out perfectly good articles. Klonimus 03:48, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Non-notable. Quale 07:37, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Delete agree with Gamaliel. The JPS 09:41, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Merge with Racine, Wisconsin unless more note can be established. Doesn't appear to be a private school attracting students from a wide area, so if it's influence is geographically limited, a mention in the respective geographic article may perhaps be the best place for this info. Although looking at the location on the satellite view on Google Maps, I wonder if the architecture is of any note? Average Earthman 12:58, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Good little article. 165.228.129.11 01:41, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. seems like a valid school stub to me. definately passes the pokemon comparitivity test ;)  ALKIVAR™ 04:58, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, as it is a high school with verifiable information. --BaronLarf 02:18, May 3, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep decent school stub. =) --Andylkl ^(talk) 07:41, May 3, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. -- Lochaber 17:11, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Not notable. Jayjg ^(talk) 22:44, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Lovely article. Very pretty picture. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 18:53, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Schools are notable, certainly as notable as south park episodes, and there's a project to write an article about every such episode. --Zantastik 19:06, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Not notable. Jonathunder 22:00, 2005 May 4 (UTC)
• Keep. Verifiability established. Non-"notability" not established. Article does not contain nonsense, original research or advertising. All schools are enduring social and physical institutions. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia ergo it must be encyclopedic. Did I forget anything? --Gene_poole 07:06, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Non-notable. Noisy | Talk 10:14, May 5, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. This school is notable. -CunningLinguist 23:23, 8 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, and refine policy to prevent future VfD nominations of school articles. In my opinion, schools with more than a few students should automatically be considered "encyclopedic"/wikipedia-worthy. Wikipedia will not be improved by the deletion of this article. ~leif ☺ _(talk) 20:49, May 9, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Intrigue 18:23, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Discussion

I would like to hear WHY this article deserves to be kept. As far as I can tell, it's not notable and Google is agreeing with me. Linuxbeak 00:09, Apr 30, 2005 (UTC)

• It's a school. All schools are more notable than tens of thousands of things that have an article. This is not a mere academic encyclopedia, but a complete reference library. You deletionists are wasting your own and everyone else's time as you have no hope of winning. In other cases deletionists have backed down because they have realised that their activities are a waste of time; why not over schools? Oliver Chettle 02:23, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • I'm not arguing with you, because you're talking to me in contempt. If you want to have an intelligent conversation, I suggest using my talk page. Linuxbeak 03:07, Apr 30, 2005 (UTC)
  • I'm sorry if Oliver Chettle appears a little impatient, he seems to be forgetting that some people are new to the whole school notability battle controversy. My perspective is that schools are important, but there are great numbers of them and they are somewhat generic, so it might be best to merge some of the weaker articles. This article establishes enough "distinctiveness" to make it interesting. Kappa 07:29, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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