Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Thornton Friends School

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was no consensus, defaulting to keep. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 00:43, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thornton Friends School

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NN school, no outside sources, directory entry. Article has existed in the same stub condition for nearly a year with no expansion -- lack of media sources indicates to me that none is possible. Shimeru 00:24, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

• keep or merge to local. Please consider the number of times a fight has been started by nominating a school, then read WP:POINT. Wikipedia is better served if you submit the article to WP:SCH for improvement instead of nominating for deletion. Duration as a stub is not a valid reason for deletion. Unfocused 00:37, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

From Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Precedents:

"Schools are frequently nominated for deletion, but consensus is frequently not reached. Most of the approximately 270 school articles nominated for deletion in the eight months January to August, 2005, resulted in no consensus, with fewer than 15% actually deleted."'

--A. B. 01:24, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

• Delete No claim of notability. Schools do not all need Wikipedia articles. They may be mentioned in an article about the city.Edison 00:43, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. This is not the Friends school that Chelsea Clinton attended. I expanded the article a bit, and clarified its location. --TruthbringerToronto (Talk | contribs) 01:06, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Correct... that would be Sidwell Friends (a school within the district).  ALKIVAR™ ☢ 07:19, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep - most U.S. secondary schools get articles from what I've seen. --A. B. 01:25, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

Comment: This is not a super-strong "keep" -- I'm just going by what I've seen before, not some deeper belief or ideology re: inclusion/deletion, etc.

• Delete There are only 55 students in the Upper (read "secondary") school and no evidence of notability. JChap2007 02:26, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Non-notable school. I also don't think that having a notable person attends make a school notable (and pointed that out on the talk page of WP:SCHOOLS). TJ Spyke 02:51, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep or merge to Silver Spring, Maryland per WP:LOCAL and WP:SCHOOLS. Yamaguchi先生 04:49, 4 November 2006
• Keep per Unfocused. --Doc Tropics ^{Message in a bottle} 04:57, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep there arent too many quaker schools in Maryland. This makes it a relatively unique school.  ALKIVAR™ ☢ 07:19, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
• Speedy close This has the S word in the title so will never get consensus delete. It can go one of two ways: merge, or expand. Neither requires admin powers. Guy 10:59, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment We actually have had a few consensus deletions before. They are rare but do occur. JoshuaZ 23:44, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete nn. --MaNeMeBasat 14:29, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete IronDuke 19:36, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Tiny non-notable school with no notable alumni or succesful athletic teams or anything similar. JoshuaZ 23:44, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep - middle schools are notable. --Ineffable3000 23:54, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment Do you have some reasoning or basis behind that claim? JoshuaZ 23:57, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Next stop, notable kindergartens. Angus McLellan (Talk) 18:02, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
• Merge - give it a mention in Silver Spring, Maryland then change this to a redirect. --JohnDBuell 18:47, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Comment: If merged, the place to put the school would be in Silver Spring, Maryland#Education where the current sentence on private schools reads: "Notable private schools in the region include Yeshiva of Greater Washington, Torah School of Greater Washington, Our Lady of Good Counsel High School, and The Barrie School." I noticed two things about the sentence: red links and the word "notable". Will we have a similar conversation about those red-linked schools? And how do we merge in this school if that word "notable" is in there? If you delete the "notable" word and merge this school in, will someone later revert, re-inserting "notable" and dropping out this school? My suggestion is that if the decision is "merge", then put a note on the Silver Spring talk page. --A. B. 19:56, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

I'm going to put a note on the Silver Spring talk page making local folks aware of this AfD; they may have some perspectives pro or con. --A. B. 19:59, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

• Keep article is for a quaker school in MD, a relatively unusual characteristic. We have near 100% precedent for retention of high school articles. Alansohn 19:01, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
• Weak Delete per nom Subwayguy 22:21, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Cribcage 05:26, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment Is there some reason that you are saying that? Remember, AfD is not a vote. JoshuaZ 05:35, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per Alkivar and TruthBringerToronto's additions to the article. --Myles Long 17:37, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. This is just a guess, but I believe I've read several thousand articles about schools and this is the first time I've run across one about a Quaker school. Silensor 23:19, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep I can't see the point of these School AfDs. You put schools in Wikipedia for exactly the same reason shops sell milk at below cost price - it brings the punters in! Moreover a well written school article gives invaluable covereage of the local area - something to be encouraged and a good way to find related articles --Mike 18:17, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete nn school. Carlossuarez46 21:59, 7 November 2006 (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 a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.