Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Armidale 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 of the debate was KEEP. Robert ^{T | @ | C} 04:03, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] The Armidale School

This is just kiddie drivel.--JBellis 09:06, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

Since the nomination (which I've fixed up by adding the template) was so utterly awful, I suppose it behoves me to provide a better one. The article appears to be a poorly-written and poorly-formatted script written by young teenagers. It is not even an attempt at an encyclopaedia article, and can surely be safely deleted with no fuss or muss. fuddlemark (fuddle me!) 12:18, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

• Keep, the article nominated by Mr Bellis is not the article we see before us now. The "kiddie drivel" was in fact vandalism, which I've now reverted. All is well with the world, and I'm sure this AfD can be safely closed "keep" with neither fuss nor muss. fuddlemark (fuddle me!) 12:18, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, Shouldn't be deleted. Just needs new content. School is a small member of the GPS_Schools most of which have developed reasonable content. 203.158.33.174 12:27, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, schoolcruft. Probable vanity. Proto t c 15:13, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
  • VANITY? fuddlemark (fuddle me!) 15:25, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
    • You really think 99% of school articles aren't just ugly little stubs started by a 12 year old that attends the school? Proto t c 16:16, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
      • WP:AGFHipocrite - «Talk» 14:28, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
      • Um, dude - fuddlemark (the author) is not in high school. Ambi 23:14, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
      • Besides which - there is nothing wrong with being a 12 year-old high school student. I was one myself once. --Cnwb 05:17, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep As with the last 275 or so verifiable high schools to be nominated. These nominations are just a waste of everyone's time. CalJW 16:08, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep It's a High School, it's been around for over a hundred years, and since I haven't seen the "kiddie drivel" or vandalism that earlier users noted, I suspect that this article could easily have encyclopedic value. --Martin Osterman 16:30, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and expand. Notable Australian school with established tradition. Capitalistroadster 16:42, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Australia-related deletions. . Capitalistroadster 16:49, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep all high schools per preceedent and consensus at WP:SCH. Gateman1997 19:48, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Gateman, you know perfectly well there is no consensus. There is precedent, but the two are not the same thing. Denni☯ 05:44, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
    • Actually the consensus has been developing at WP:SCH for two days now. And preceedent is also VERY much in favor of keeping high schools (as distastful as I find it personally). Just as preceedent and consensus are for deleting all preschools.Gateman1997 20:29, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Notable Australian school, over 100 years old. Cnwb 22:27, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Notable. Ambi 23:14, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, important component of Anglican education in the New England Tablelands of northern New South Wales. Kappa 02:04, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. If there's been a consensus per Gateman's comment above we should be consistent in applying this. Gateman, can you point to where specifically that consensus is shown? -- Ian ≡ talk 02:56, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
• Please help to bring reason to the war on school articles by participating in the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Schools. Denni☯ 05:19, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep it appears to be an award-winning Australian school with a history. Yamaguchi先生 09:04, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
• keep please our consensus is to keep high schools now Yuckfoo 00:56, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
• Weak Keep I guess this is a notable school --JAranda | watz sup 04:20, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Per consensus. Hipocrite - «Talk» 14:28, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep high school, per Wikipedia:Schools/Arguments#Keep. --Vsion 09:22, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. This institution is over a century old. --Centauri 00:11, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep I originally flagged thus up for deletion when I saw the long, 100% vandalism version and failed to check the history - sorry. Personally I went to bog-standard comprehensive which is never going to warrant an entry, but this article is now harmless enough so it might as well stay.--JBellis 12:45, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep as per Wikipedia:Schools/Arguments#Keep -- Ianblair23 (talk) 21:54, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep as part of the fight against deletionist vandalism. The mere fact of something's existence makes it worthy of an article. Kurt Weber 23:38, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
  • I suggest you read WP:NOT. If what it says there is too much for you to agree with, then by all means feel free to start your own encyclopedia. Denni☯ 01:19, 14 November 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 a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.