Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Walt Disney 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 Merge to Walt Disney. —Quarl ^(talk) 2007-02-11 06:08Z

[edit] Walt Disney School

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Nonnotable elementary school in Pennsylvania, except that it's named for a famous person. Less than 100 ghits for this Walt Disney School (there are others elsewhere). YechielMan 04:04, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

• Delete for a school to be notable it should either be famous itself, have notable alumni, or be the venue of notable events. This one is none of these. Wooyi 04:55, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
• Delete, schoolcruft. Edeans 08:11, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

  Schoolcruft? Is that what I found in the locker rooms? --UsaSatsui 11:17, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

• Delete. If being named after someone famous were a criteria, nearly every school would be in. Do you have any clue just how many Kennedy schools there are alone? --UsaSatsui 11:17, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
• Merge with Walt Disney. There may be many schools named after presidents like Kennedy, but it is unusual for a school to be named after an entertainment figure. That doesn't mean the school by itself it notable enough for an article, but it should be mentioned in the Disney article as there can't be many places like this named after the filmmaker. 23skidoo 13:42, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment. I found at least three other schools in the US named after Walt Disney, in a Google search. YechielMan 21:48, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
    • Comment reply'. That's still only three (and they should also be mentioned in the Walt Disney article). But unless they have achieved notability, they probably wouldn't warrant separate articles, either. That said, if the article under discussion survives AFD, it needs to be given a disambiguation name due to there being more than one. 23skidoo 22:31, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
• Delete or Merge. I don't really see why this article shouldn't be deleted, just because it is named after Walt Disney doesn't make it any more notable than any other elementary school. However, we could put it in the Walt Disney article as it is an interesting little fact (is it a fact? It needs citing!) about Walt Disney. As said above, not many entertainers have schools named after them. Cream147 _{Shout at me for doing wrong} 19:39, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
• Delete. No evidence of notability; inadequate references. WMMartin 15:40, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
• Merge per the reasoning provided by 23skidoo. Another possible option would be to create some sort of a disambiguation page and then redirect each school to the appropriate locality in which it resides. In either case the title should be preserved as this is a plausible search term. (jarbarf) 19:02, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
• Keep by way of replacing with a disambiguation page, no valid reason for deletion has been presented. Silensor 20:12, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

  "Non-notable" is a valid reason. --UsaSatsui 04:51, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

• Keep per Silensor, this should serve as a meaningful disambiguation page. No objection to merging existing content as suggested by others. RFerreira 08:10, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

  Disambiguation to what, exactly? We're questioning the notability of one school, and you believe we should change the page to mention three non-notable schools? If there's more than one notable Disney School, that's when one mentions disambiguation. I'm not buying this "it's notable because it's unusual to have a school named after an entertainer" argument either. There's a school named after a horse in Portola Valley, California, which has to be rarer than a school named after an entertainer, and it isn't notable either. --UsaSatsui 15:36, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

• Keep per the above. --Myles Long 01:26, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
• Keep turn into a disambig page.  ALKIVAR™ ☢ 16:38, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. --MaNeMeBasat 13:53, 10 February 2007 (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.