Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Chase (school)

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The result of the debate was no consensus -- Joolz 20:23, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] The Chase (school)

A school-stub that lists nothing but the place the school serves. No attempt made to establish notability Pilatus 11:52, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

• Keep, this article seems to have been created as a substub to prove a point [1]. Kappa 12:00, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
  • So, in other words, anything written in violation of WP:POINT is inherintly notable? --InShaneee 21:56, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete as per nominator. And Kappa makes the best argument for deletion I've ever heard. I can't see why he votes keep. If this was created only to make a point, it should be deleted immediately. This should be an encyclopedia, not kindergarten. --Lomedae 13:09, September 3, 2005 (UTC)
  • Since this is an encyclopedia, not kindergarten, we don't delete valid articles because of their origin. Kappa 13:12, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
    • We do actually if they're not encyclopedic. :-P --Lomedae 20:12, September 3, 2005 (UTC)
    • Did anyone bring popcorn? Pilatus 13:23, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
      • Feel free to stay on topic. Kappa 13:35, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
• Strong keep. I thought we were taking a break from nominating schools for deletion. If an article on a notable subject includes insufficient information please feel free to do a bit of research and fill in the missing details, as Kappa appears to have done. Pburka 16:04, September 3, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Being a beacon school is actually quite special. (Being a tech college isn't much, though.) -Splash 18:11, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete not notable. Dunc|☺ 19:26, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. A very brief search revealed that the current Minister of State for Schools was educated there. I have updated the article. --Tony Sidaway^Talk 19:52, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep per Splash and Tony Sidaway. -- DS1953 21:57, September 3, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per User:Soltak/Views#Schools and WP:POINT. Soltak | Talk 23:47, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep - Schools are notable. UniReb 23:57, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Not notable. - brenneman^(t)(c) 01:15, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per User:Soltak/Views#Schools. Nandesuka 02:41, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Clutter. Gamaliel 03:32, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

  Aren't we supposed to be creating "clutter"? Wouldn't the "sum of all human knowledge" be fairly cluttered? Keep on cluttering up our encyclopaedia with verifiable information! Grace Note 02:14, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. More clutter. --Calton | Talk 03:54, September 4, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. One of the largest schools in Worcestershire (1700+) and in the top ten for pass rates in the county. It's a former military base and the previous head was given a knighthood for his services to education. violet/riga (t) 10:06, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
  • Comment. I don't see any of that in the current version? - brenneman^(t)(c) 12:47, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

    That would be an argument for including the information, not deleting the article. Perhaps deletionists who insist on nominating schools could consider doing more of the former and less of the latter? Grace Note 02:14, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

    • Hence the problem with immediately nominating an article for AfD within 4 days of the article's creation.--Nicodemus75 23:00, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Not notable. Jonathunder 15:27, 2005 September 4 (UTC)
• Keep, verifiable, seems quite important. JYolkowski // talk 15:57, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. All schools are notable enough for a truly great encyclopaedia. —RaD Man (talk 17:20, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Promising article about a notable institution. CalJW 19:43, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. This entry is about a school.--Nicodemus75 21:37, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, notable. Christopher Parham (talk) 21:44, 2005 September 4 (UTC)
• Delete. This entry is about a school. Proto t c 12:53, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep This entry is about a school. Guerberj 16:40, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, schools aren't all notable, but per Schools for Deletion, this one is notable.Gateman1997 19:25, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and stop nominating schools until consensus is reached on them --Ryan Delaney ^talk 10:21, 7 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep all high schools. delete all nn primary schools Roodog2k (talk) 20:41, 7 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. This article is about a school. Being up for a government inspection this year is not notable; neither is having one notable alumna. --Idont Havaname 04:02, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

  You don't explain why not. In any case, being a school is notable in itself. This is supposed to be an encyclopaedia of enormous, almost limitless scope. Grace Note 02:14, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

  • One notable alumna listed. violet/riga (t) 21:58, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
    • Then list the others. --Idont Havaname 23:36, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

      Maybe if it had supplied a college basketballer, you'd be a bit keener? Grace Note 02:17, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

      Indeed, she's only the Minister of State for Schools. :-D --Tony Sidaway^Talk 02:49, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

      • I've updated my criteria for school inclusion on my user page and have added some stuff at Wikipedia:Schools/Arguments#Delete. I would prefer not to comment anymore here as I would prefer to avoid conflict. --Idont Havaname 03:39, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

        No problems here. It seems that the more effective we get at writing decent school articles that end up getting kept at AfD, the more extreme in their "notability" demands for school content some people get. Now we've got to the point where a school isn't necessarily notable if a famous person went there. Never mind that people will want to read about it, the ever-more-unreasonable demands of a diminishing number now say that it mustn't have an encyclopedia article. I am left scratching my head and wondering what on earth some people believe an encycloped is intended to do if not present factual, verifiable information on subjects of interest. --Tony Sidaway^Talk 08:51, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

• Keep per previous arguments. Schools are inherently notable. Unfocused 05:10, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete nn school. Dottore So 23:55, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, relevant to education in the beautiful town of Malvern, Worcestershire; producing some good female inventors/engineers. --Vsion 23:32, 10 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep the sun still comes up in the morning... so keep.  ALKIVAR™ 05:28, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

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 an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.