Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alfred Elementary School (2nd nomination)

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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 delete. Jaranda wat's sup 01:13, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Alfred Elementary School (2nd nomination)

Alfred Elementary School (discussion|history|protect|delete|undelete|logs|links)

Was originally kept following a VfD back in June 2005, here, but has not improved since. As a matter of fact, the article has not been edited since October 2005, suggesting that it is an unexpandable stub, which is itself grounds for deletion. The presentation of contact info seems somewhat spamtastic, but this is almost irrelevant, as this entity does not seem notable enough to merit an article per any existing guideline or policy. WP:SCHOOL (which is not a guideline) suggests that school articles must conform to our verifiablity policy, viz: The school has been the subject of multiple non-trivial published works whose source is independent of the school itself. This article does not appear to present such evidence. Further, quoting from Wikipedia:Schools/Arguments, Granting inclusion to non-noteworthy schools is like handing students a passing grade just for showing up to class. Minimal standards encourage minimal accomplishment. Which seems to be exactly the case here. Puerto De La Cruz 18:58, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

  • Delete per my above nom. Puerto De La Cruz 19:08, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom. TJ Spyke 20:51, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete It has no claim of notability. It is mentioned in the article for the town, and that mention could be expanded. Edison 20:56, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Merge to Alfred, Maine per WP:LOCAL and as suggested by User:Edison. JYolkowski // talk 23:43, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete Miniscule stub on a non-notable school. Fails WP:SCHOOLS3 on every count. -- Kicking222 04:57, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete No expansion in over a year indicates lack of interest or lack of sources. No reason to keep this stub around if either of those is true. Shimeru 06:05, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom. Has failed to meet universal WP:V requirements.--WaltCip 21:08, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom, Edison. JoshuaZ 00:04, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom. How is this useful? If someone is searching for this place their website is more useful than this "article". There is no notablity to base an article on. Arbusto 02:15, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
  • keep please meets guidelines and policies and this is part of massive sockpuppet nominations Yuckfoo 19:48, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
    • Comment No one has shown any strong violation of the sock policy by these nominations. JoshuaZ 19:55, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
      • please do not wiki-lawyer this is a obvious sockpuppet Yuckfoo 20:06, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
        • I never asserted otherwise. Of course its a sockpuppet. But not all sockpuppets violate policy. Where is this WP:SOCK non-compliant? JoshuaZ 20:11, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

*Delete as NIGGER POOP. --SuperDude 69 21:33, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

  • Struck above comment as coming from a vandal making a point (see also this edit) who is merely voting on AfDs alphabetically (see user's contribs) and adding nonsense. -- Kicking222 22:36, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Speedy keep. Not a single valid reason has been cited for deletion, despite the recurring voices saying "delete per nom". Speedy keep because this was disruptively nominated for deletion by a sockpuppet account in violation of policy. Silensor 21:37, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
    • Really? Failure of every proposed policy- including one strongly supported by school inclusionists such as yourself- is not a valid reason? -- Kicking222 22:36, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
      • Please refrain from referring to me as a "school inclusionist" or making strawmen arguments. Contrary to what one might infer from your comment, I have voted to delete school-related articles in the past when appropriate (please check my history), but see no point in !voting to delete something when there is no reason under policy to do so. The content of this specific article is perfectly verifiable, arguably notable, and should be kept. Silensor 22:42, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete for lack of maintenance since last AFD, and also per WP:SCHOOL. Moreover, Google returns under 1,000 results. --Slgr@ndson (page - messages - contribs) 22:59, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Merge to Alfred, Maine.  ALKIVAR™ ☢ 01:49, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete. This hasn't changed since the previous AFD, and there is nothing here to indicate that this elementary school is notable. --Coredesat 18:09, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep — Repeat nom. of a failed AfD. — RJH (talk) 21:00, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
    • Comment Last nomination was months or years ago. Reconsideration is not inappropriate. Shimeru 21:43, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep or merge to appropriate locality per WP:LOCAL. Yamaguchi先生 22:17, 14 November 2006
  • Delete or Merge do not keep. Vegaswikian 00:51, 15 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.