Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dowling Catholic High 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 of the debate was NO CONSENSUS (default keep) further 'debate' serves no useful purpose. Doc (?) 23:55, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Dowling Catholic High School

Useless high school article. No content. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.252.249.88 (talk • contribs)

• Speedy Keep usual reasons - deja vu all over again. Dlyons493 Talk 15:43, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep school for usual reasons plus history --rob 15:45, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, one line substub with no assertion of notability. Proto t c 15:50, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, lots of high schools are listed on Wikipedia. -Andrew 16:00, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep A good start. CalJW 16:21, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep or Merge with West Des Moines until it can grow to the point where it's an article on its own. Karmafist 16:31, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Doing a merge accomplishes nothing but ensuring the article is not found in Category:High schools in Iowa or in any category. Categories are an essential part of navigation in Wikipedia, and redirects are not compatible with them. Right now, its a fairly easy matter to expand it, starting with the history of the school on the web site. A redirect ensures that its extremely unlikely for anybody, especially a newbie, will ever make a full article (as nobody wants to put lots of school history into an article about a city). --rob 21:44, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
• Prediction based on past school nominations this will end up roughly 50-50 keep/delete, after several days of acrimonious fighting. How about we just forget about nominating schools (say, primary schools and above) until the issue can be settled? Those of us who don't want them aren't getting anywhere against those of you who do, and it's time we admitted it. --fuddlemark (fuddle me!) 17:29, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
  • My reading of Wikipedia:Schools is that there is no concensus and will not be in the short-term. We can only agree to differ, recognise that schools aren't going to get deleted, and move on to using our limited time on work that will be fruitful like spam, nonsense ... So I believe that real schools should not at present be nominated - verifiability and not notability is the only currently-workable school criterion. In an ideal world, I think we'd assess each school on its merits but I don't see that happening any time soon. Dlyons493 Talk 18:41, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
    • Please assist User:Aaron_Brenneman (strong deletionist) and myself (strong inclusionist) in our upcoming attempt to do a good school merger article as a model for solving this persistant problem. Hipocrite - «Talk» 19:02, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep per MarkGallagher. Hipocrite - «Talk» 17:42, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep valid High Schools. — RJH 20:28, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
• Not keep. I like the idea of merging this into an appopriate list, but right now there's almost no content, so this isn't even a useful stub. - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 20:51, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, as we have other high school articles. Carioca 21:23, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
• Speedy keep, there is no consensus to delete articles about verifiable secondary schools. Silensor 22:48, 1 November 2005 (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.