Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Burford County Combined School

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The result was Keep (non-admin closure), nomination withdrawn by nominator. JohnCD (talk) 13:51, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Burford County Combined School

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This is a curious muddle. There is a Burford Combined School (not Burford County Combined School) at Marlow Bottom in Buckinghamshire, England; and there is a Burford County Primary School in Oxfordshire. "County" in the Oxfordshire school's name implies that it is run by the (Oxfordshire) county education authority; there is no such place as the "Burford County" the article mentions. The link provided is dead - "No web site is configured at this address." This article seems to be a hoax cobbled together from different bits of information - best to Delete and start again if someone wants to make a real article about one of these schools. JohnCD (talk) 21:01, 13 March 2008 (UTC) Nomination withdrawn - see below. JohnCD (talk) 22:46, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

• Speedy delete G3 as hoax per nom's evidence, so tagged. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells•Otter chirps)} 21:06, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
• Neutral pending further evidence; there doesn't seem to be a Burford County but some evidence shows that this school may indeed exist. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells•Otter chirps)} 22:17, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
• Speedy delete: Hoax. Otolemur crassicaudatus (talk) 21:10, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
• Neutral pending further evidence. Otolemur crassicaudatus (talk) 03:30, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
• Delete. I was fixing it up (see history), and clicked on the link to nowhere. So I tagged it as a hoax. It may have been mis-named. Start over. Bearian (talk) 21:47, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
• Speedy delete - it's a HOAX!!! Bigtop 21:50, 13 March 2008 (UTC) (hoax comment based on Otolemur's comment and per nom)
• Delete Wow o wow. as no finding to support notability or verifiability. For what it's worth. There is one phone and fax listing. Maybe someone messed up the name of the article.22:04, 13 March 2008 (UTC) Dlohcierekim 70.126.47.211 (talk) 23:46, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
• Comment. This is not a hoax. The article is clearly about Burford School in Marlow Bottom, as it said before Bearian started "fixing it up". Presumably the author gave it this title because there is already an article about the private Burford School in Oxfordshire. The link didn't work simply because of a typo, ".com" instead of ".co.uk". I would suggest that the editors who have accused the author of hoaxing/vandalism retract their comments which violate WP:AGF and WP:BITE. Having said all that, the school probably isn't notable anyway. Phil Bridger (talk) 22:15, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. -- DoubleBlue (Talk) 22:24, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

WITHDRAWN by nominator. The nonexistent "Burford County", combined with the dead link, was what convinced me this was a hoax; but it seems the originator was not to blame for the first and the second was an accident. The article still has problems - at present it is a direct copyvio of the school website and needs rewriting to fix that - and I am not sure of notability; but it looks fixable; I withdraw this nomination, and will apologise and explain to the originator. JohnCD (talk) 22:46, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

• Note I have added a {{mergeto}} tag to the article, suggesting that it is merged with Marlow Bottom. This is what we have done with other primary school articles for the local area. -- Roleplayer (talk) 22:56, 13 March 2008 (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.