Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Coolidge Middle School (Massachusetts)

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 no consensus to delete, majority vote keep. Ifnord 21:50, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Coolidge Middle School Coolidge Middle School (Reading, Massachusetts)

"Ya u should certainly get rid of this page- it's very racist against miorities and I don't feel comfortablewith all the creepy stuff about Marie...DELETE bitches" Delete as non-notable. After reverting the blanking of this article earlier today, I received an email from the original author, user Slugger9203. "I am requesting the deletion of the article COOLIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL because the vice principal at my school told me to delete it and I do not want to get in any more trouble. Please delete it." I've done my part, Slugger. Lockley 01:19, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

• Abstain. The author DID request deletion, but articles about schools need not be deleted. Royboycrashfan 01:25, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. I find it sad that a person got in trouble for adding a page to wikipedia, but it seems non-notable, and would require a lot of research and formatting to make quality. --Mathwizard1232 01:30, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Please Delete it —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.30.107.161 (talk • contribs)
• Weak delete. I don't know enough about the two awards listed (no citations) to determine whether they convey notability, but I doubt it. High schools are pretty much an automatic "keep" even when they only have substubs, but that's because they have sports teams heavily covered by local mainstream newspapers, they have a sense of community among the student body and parents, and other reasons that don't apply to middle schools. If kept (i.e. if much greater significance is demonstrated), rewrite from scratch (and cite sources) per author's request, dropping all existing content. Barno 01:46, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
• Keep and expand. Schools are encyclopedic, as I found in my early days on the 'pedia. --M@thwiz2020 02:14, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
• Keep (accredited)educational institutions are notable.Blnguyen 02:19, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment: While some editors make that blanket assertion for all levels of schools, there are many who insist that any school article must demonstrate individual importance. There is no "Schools are encyclopedic" accepted policy, just a lot of opinions and some battling guideline proposals. There are also plenty who say (for reasons I explained above) that high schools will always have enough notability if verified, but lower levels typically will not. Note that unaccredited colleges get a lot of "delete" votes. Barno 02:52, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
• Delete If you want an article about this just delete this one and make one yourself66.30.107.161 02:45, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
• Keep from my short time at wikipedia I've come to learn that schools are the 3rd rail. Obviously the content needs to be fixed, but the article itself doesn't need to be deleted. Savidan 03:58, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Comment I'm moderately deletionist now and figure that only High Schools are notable, but good luck trying to zap any school article these days. Ruby 05:43, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

• Delete SOME schools are notable, most are not. This one sadly is not. Mike _{(T C)} 04:01, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
• Delete I don't see any kind of notability in this article. --Angelo 04:03, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Ardenn 04:04, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. If the kid's got a kook for a vice principal that's terrified of the Internet, I see no reason to prolong the kid's suffering. It's inevitable that someone will come along later and write another article anyway, likely someone that said vice principal cannot touch. --Aaron 04:28, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, as not enough information to be notable. --Terence Ong (恭喜发财) 08:08, 9 February 2006 (UTC) I have changed my vote, please see below
• Keep all schools are worthy of inclusion. cleanup and expand.  ALKIVAR™ 08:25, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. "One news story that this school has is that they want to extend the school day from 2:30-4:30." Must have been a damn slow news day. Marskell 08:47, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
• keep as per WP:SCHOOL. Jcuk 09:38, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Per Marskell. :) ENCEPHALON 10:20, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, non-notable. If kept, do not expand with transient and non-notable information for the sake of expansion. -— Rebelguys2 ^talk 11:26, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
  • After this article is kept, if you wish to influence its content, you're free to edit it. If you opt not to edit it, you will have no influence whatsoever on its content, and your comments will, as usual be ignored by the people who do editing. Wikipedia is not for backseat drivers. --Rob 11:37, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
    • What was the point of that bite? Marskell 18:19, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
    • What? It's a suggestion. Ignore it if you'd like. Please be WP:CIVIL. — Rebelguys2 ^talk 22:54, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
• Keep being a stub doesn't make it non notable. Elfguy 14:26, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
• Weak keep per WP:SCHOOL ComputerJoe 14:56, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Newham Sixth Form College was kept on the grounds that schools should be kept and I can't see any reason why this one differs. MLA 15:12, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
• Strong Keep. Major awards and lots of good info. Article is off to a good start. No reason to remove this. -- JJay 15:19, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, schools are notable to be on an encyclopaedia. --Terence Ong (恭喜发财) 15:37, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, meets the WP:SCH prop.Gateman1997 16:08, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per WP:SCH. --Rob 16:44, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
• Keep The article has potential to be expanded. --Siva1979^{Talk to me} 17:17, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
• Schools are kept. --Ezeu 18:22, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, I still have yet to see any compelling argument that schools are inherently notable... and the author requested it. Plus I just love seeing the "No Consensus" comment by the closing admin.--Isotope23 18:51, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
• Delete I can understand high schools. They almost never get deleted. I think middle schools fall into a different category of schools. This article has the potentional to expand but is it really notable? Unless something really important happened at this school then it should be deleted.--† Ðy§ep§ion † 19:10, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

• keep please middle schools are important also Yuckfoo 19:31, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per WP:SCHOOL Nick Catalano (Talk) 23:34, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
• Keep and allow for organic growth. Bahn Mi 04:31, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per WP:SCHOOL. Only articles created by mistake may be speedily deleted under G7. (Although if memory serves, it may have been phrased differently when proposed.) Stifle 09:13, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
• Keep as per Wikipedia:Schools/Arguments#Keep, et cetera. Silensor 00:24, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, established school. Kappa 19:31, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per above. Car salesman 14:44, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
• Comment (Depending of course on whether the Vice Principal story is true) this could become notable if the student decides to protest. It seems at least tangentially related to Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier. Ardric47 03:41, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per WP:SCHOOL. Four refs, 3 external links, looks like a rather decent school stub to me. Now, which one of you delete votes above is the vice-principal? :) Turnstep 01:36, 14 February 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.