Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chinook Middle School (Bellevue, Washington)

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 speedy close, merge, and redirect to Bellevue School District. Please see notes below. Non-admin closure. Hersfold ^(t/a/c) 04:47, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Chinook Middle School (Bellevue, Washington)

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This article fails to meet Wikipedia:Notability (schools)#Primary criteria. In addition, it makes no attempt at establishing any other type of notability or using a single source. It should be redirected to Bellevue School District. --DerRichter (talk) 00:47, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. — DerRichter (talk) 00:53, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
• Merge/Redirect to Bellevue School District per nom. --brewcrewer (yada, yada) 01:06, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
• Speedy close because there is no one here proposing deletion. AfD is regularly one hundred articles per day and sometimes pushing two hundred; articles which don't need to be deleted in the first place should not come here. If you want more attention, try Wikipedia:Proposed mergers or the WikiProject talk page. If there's an edit-war regarding whether something should be a redirect or an article, try Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion. Or you could simply trybeing bold and redirect it yourself first. cab (talk) 01:22, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
• Merge to District Not enough here to warrant more than a mention in a district article. No claim of notability. And agree with cab, should have been redirected when found. Adam McCormick (talk) 01:25, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
• Merge and agree with Adam and cab. CRGreathouse (t | c) 01:35, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
• Merge with Bellevue School District. insignificant to have its own page. Brokenspirits (talk) 01:37, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
• Speedy close as per cab but I also argue keep as there appear to be plenty of RS, e.g.: GoogleNews. DoubleBlue (Talk) 02:08, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
• To clarify my position, it is Delete AND Redirect. But if those two things don't go together, if someone would please tell me how to redirect this article or where the page for "articles for redirection" is, that would be great. I feel as if Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion is just for deleting redirects. Or do I not need anyone's consensus to delete a page and redirect it? Thanks--DerRichter (talk) 04:00, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

• The reason we don't delete and redirect is that we try to maintain the page history if at all possible. If we delete the page, then we lose the old revisions of the page and can't show that this was at one point an article. By merging any useful content and then redirecting the title, we retain useful content and allow others to have a sort of "starting point" (the old revisions) should there ever be enough information to justify an actual article. In the future, such discussions should be sent to WP:MERGE for proposed mergings, however in a case like this, it's unlikely anyone would be too troubled if you were to simply complete the merge yourself. No worries, though - this is why we have the snowball clause. Hersfold ^(t/a/c) 04:47, 7 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.