Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Band camp

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 on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was keep. Hermione1980 19:23, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Band camp

A summer camp for band students. Are we going to have a separate article for every kind of camp? Soccer camp? Baseball camp? Every summer camp has some kind of theme, but they don't all need separate articles. —Wahoofive (talk) 04:00, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

• Yes, delete. The Land 11:43, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
• merge with summer camp. Roodog2k (Hello there!) 15:54, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep because this can't be elegantly merged into summer camp without writing more elaborate descriptions for the other types of specialty "camps." Also, I believe that band camp (which is required by many schools in order to participate in band) is significantly different from other types of "summer camp" in overall concept. Crypticfirefly 16:19, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, because band camps are often sponsored by schools and are also often compulsory if you want to stay in the band -- nothing like how one gets into a standard summer camp, in my opinion. --Jacquelyn Marie 16:52, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Comment If we do get lots of articles such as soccer camp and baseball camp, a page about compulsory camps could be created and the information could be merged -- but we'd still need redirects, because "band camp" and "soccer camp," etc, would be used much more often for searching than "compulsory camps". --Jacquelyn Marie 16:54, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep If computer camp is going to stay as its own entry, then band camp should as well. Band camp outranks comptuer camp 5 to 1 for Google hits. Otherwise I could see a merge for both. Band camp has its own significance as a subtheme in the movie American Pie (American Pie V will be called American Pie: Band Camp according to IMDB [1] ) and this could be added to the article Jessamyn 19:15, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. One time, at band camp. Punkmorten 21:03, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and have the article not only explain what band camp is, but also mention the American Pie "One time, at band camp" phrase. Zach (Sound Off) 23:58, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Comment Not to mention that band camp in real life (at least for Indiana competitive bands) is much different than what it is presented as in that movie. Kurt Weber 00:05, 8 October 2005 (UTC), 5-year trombone player/2-year instructor of his high school band and, for a time, a member of Southwind Drum & Bugle Corps
• Keep -- Spinboy 23:59, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep American Pie promotes schoolyard stereotype to WP notability. Xoloz 05:48, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. One time, at band camp... (the article needs some work though.) --Apyule 05:57, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep as per Jessamyn. Carioca 22:55, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep as per Jessamyn. ~⌈Markaci⌋ 2005-10-5 T 00:45:51 Z
• Keep, if for no other reason, then as part of the fight against Deletionist Vandalism Kurt Weber 00:05, 8 October 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.