Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Carrick Primary 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 03:08, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Edenderry Primary School and Carrick Primary School

Disambig pages for primary schools. Primary schools are generally non-notable, and disambig pages for primary schools without articles most certainly shouldn't warrent an article Computerjoe's talk 21:17, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

• Delete. As a general rule, delete any and all DAB pages to articles that don't exist. I can't see any purpose there. Fan-1967 22:47, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. --MECU≈talk 23:46, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete disambiguation pages with nothing to disambiguate. I've seen a couple of these for surnames recently. Do we need to add something about useless disambigs to WP:BAI? GRBerry 02:09, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. NN. -- GWO
• Comment. This nomination is malformed.--Nicodemus75 08:06, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

  How? Computerjoe's talk 15:36, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

• Keep all schools are notable. --ForbiddenWord 18:02, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

• Comment Even if that were true, these aren't articles about schools. They are disambiguation pages where all the targets are redlinks, so there is nothing for them to disambiguate. This user clearly didn't look at the articles before opining, so should be totally disregarded. GRBerry 19:24, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

• While it's true that the article is a disambiguation page pointing to blank articles, it is my hope that this disambiguation page will encourage the required articles to be written. I did in fact look at the page, and for that reason my vote remains a keep. However, I do wish I had your excellent mind-reading skills, I imagine it would be a tremendous boon to editing Wikipedia. --ForbiddenWord 19:27, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

• Keep useful disambiguations which can be expanded. We are here to build an encyclopedia after all, if you wanted help with the red links Computerjoe, all you had to do was ask. You have my number, call any time.  ;-) Silensor 22:40, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom Jaranda ^{wat's sup} 22:52, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
• Comment: Apparently someone was murdered at the Carrick Primary School in Lurgan in 1975 [1] citing the Irish Republican Army as the organization responsible for planting a bomb on a school desk. If anyone has access to Lexis Nexis, it would be interesting to see what sort of coverage this received 30 years ago. Silensor 23:50, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. These disambiguations are useful to expand from, and I see now that work has been made in that direction. Yamaguchi先生 02:35, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as besides being redlinks, they are links that would almost certainly not be kept should be be created, going by precedent. -Goldom ‽‽‽ ⁂ 02:37, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
• KEEP This deletionist crusade needs to STOP, We are trying to build an enclyopedia of all human knowledge not obfuscate it. -- Librarianofages 02:46, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
• Keep These useful disambiguation pages.--Nicodemus75 02:46, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, will be useful once articles are created (one already has been). Until then they are harmless. Christopher Parham (talk) 06:52, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

  Comment Here's a suggestion: how about you create the articles first, then create the DAB pages after there's something to DAB. And to those who act royally upset that someone nominated an article that's nothing but redlinks: WP:CHILL. There's never been any consistent consensus to keep primary schools in the first place. Fan-1967 12:54, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

  It's useful to create the disambiguation pages ASAP to avoid having to do move pages around later. Christopher Parham (talk) 17:43, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

  I agree with Parham, we need to encourage as many school-related articles to be created as possible. It's basically one of the big draws of the Wikipedia project, and disambiguation pages just encourage more of them to be written. --ForbiddenWord 18:58, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

• Keep: To say that primary schools are non-notable is nonsense - if so articles about all other schools must similarly be non-notable. This is an encyclopedia for goodness sake - it should have every school with articles on them. I was developing a list of primary schools in Northern Ireland - anyone who has developed lists knows that it will not fully be populated with articles for some time, but is meant to encourage articles. It is the same with these disambig - to prove the point - with regard to Edenderry Primary School - someone added an article as a result - I rest my case (please`remove the deletion proposal from this and others - thank you). Ardfern 20:27, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Proposal for deletion is now moot. Bahn Mi 21:52, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Useful disambiguation pages. Piccadilly 22:27, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, user-friendly. Kappa 22:30, 28 July 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.