Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Archer School for Girls

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. And the schoolyard fighting continues... ~ trialsanderrors 08:52, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Archer School for Girls

Archer School for Girls (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Not notable, goes on about a movie in lead paragraph, poor quality... sounds a lot like a prospectus in some places. ~Zythe^{Talk to me!} 17:53, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

• Delete I have noticed non-American schools tend to get deleted, so I see no reason why this one shouldn't also for consistency. --SandyDancer 17:55, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

• Delete The school is very non-notable, however the building might deserve a page for it ;) Ha ha... Or if they haven't already, place that piece of information about the film Chinatown on the Chinatown page, ala Trivia. I'm a Roman Polanski fan though Missvain 17:58, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

• merge and redirect per Missvain Cannot see that this meets WP:SCHOOLS. 486 unique google hits out 04 9,500 The Polanski connection is the most notable thing about it. To preserve the edit history, we would need to merge and redirect. Cheers, :) Dlohcierekim 18:15, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

• Change to keep per notable alumni. Cheers, :) Dlohcierekim 12:10, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

• Delete An interesting story, and much better written than most school articles, but alas, this school does not meet any of the criteria in WP:SCHOOLS3. Denni ^talk 20:15, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as above. wikipediatrix 22:03, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
• Merge Not quite enough cites in the article to establish notability, but I found and added one. The article needs a NPOV rewrite. Edison 23:42, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. It appears that this school is also a historic landmark, and I am basing my keep on that, but would not be opposed to some sort of a suitable merge. RFerreira 05:22, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per Rferreira. Seems like it's worth keeping around based on its historic value. --badlydrawnjeff talk 17:21, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Would anyone be willing or qualified to rewrite it? Would an article on the building itself not be better? Meh. ~Zythe^{Talk to me!} 02:16, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep The school has two notable alumni which I've added to the article. The school also has a robotics team that has performed at a national level and a variety of other accomplishments which I've added to the article. JoshuaZ 20:53, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
• Apathetic Keep This could use a complete rewrite, as that it's current quality is very poor. However, poor quality does not make an article non-notable. I can see this school meeting the critera in WP:SCHOOLS, barely, and not even coming close to WP:SCHOOLS3. Trusilver 02:26, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. WMMartin 18:54, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment It would help if you made more substantial comments than that. JoshuaZ 21:37, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
• keep notable school!!! Audiobooks 21:20, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment It would help if you made more substantial comments than that. JoshuaZ 21:37, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
• keep please the school is notable as historical landmark and with special alumni too Yuckfoo 02:11, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Article needs to have a drastic rewrite, but there are specific claims of notability re structure and uses of school. JoshuaZ's additions convince me that the article satisfies WP:SCHOOL. Alansohn 07:52, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Like many articles concerning schools or any other topic, more work is needed to improve the quality. However, quality is not a reason for deletion. This school has references and some of the most notable alumni I've seen all day. Experienced school editors such as User:JoshuaZ have taken Archer School for Girls under their wing and I have no doubt they will whip this article into shape in due course. Let's give them the time they need to help reach my goal of comprehensive coverage at wikipedia. --JJay 11:37, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete non-notable school. To the point above: schools are either notable on their own, or else they are not. Having notable alumni is a needless canard and folks asserting they should be kept should not have to resort to such silly arguments since it is perfectly defensible (if in my view wrong) position to argue simply that schools should be kept inasmuch as that is what they are. I doubt many of us who feel otherwise will change our tune because a few notable students call a random collection of bricks their alma mater. Eusebeus 01:08, 22 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.