Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dr Challoner's High School

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The result of the debate was - kept - SimonP 02:52, May 23, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Dr Challoner's High School

Non-notable, delete. Neutrality^talk 05:15, May 17, 2005 (UTC)

• Delete unless wikipedia wants a short, pointless article for every run of the mill school on the planet. CDThieme 05:15, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and expand. Dr Challoner's Grammar School has a good deal of information; undoubtedly some of that would also apply here. Secondary schools are notable. --BaronLarf 05:41, May 17, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep schools. Verifiable and NPOV. Schools are perfect for involving new Wikipedians. First, preserve knowledge, then expand knowledge. Thanks to Neutrality, I've had no time for adding content today. --Unfocused 05:52, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Kappa 05:55, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete Institutional Vanity. Wikipedia isn't a triviabase Gmaxwell 06:27, 17 May 2005 (UTC)

  Hey G, here's a tip. If you're going to cut and paste text, spellcheck it first innit. Grace Note 11:30, 17 May 2005 (UTC)

• Delete, schoolcruft, schoolcruft, schoolcruft... I'm thinking we need to give Neutrality an award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Schoolcruft. Master Thief Garrett 07:36, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• Merge into Buckinghamshire and delete - Skysmith 09:35, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete: Could this subsist in a larger article, such as those that Nightowlneils was writing? Yes. However, a pellet per school is not useful, and the article provides no grounds for notability. Geogre 11:55, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep.JuntungWu 12:42, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Subject should be verifiable. - SimonP 13:21, May 17, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Good stub. Link to story about the recent use of the school grounds for the 137-minute TV thriller "Like Father, Like Son". --Tony Sidaway|Talk 13:57, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep this informative article Lupin 14:09, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, so students there can point to Wikipedia and say authoritatively, "my school was used in a movie!" -- BD2412 ^thimkact 14:14, 2005 May 17 (UTC)
• keep Lotsofissues 14:28, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep schools in wikipedia. --Howrealisreal 14:43, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, vanity - but nominator should be warned for WP:POINT. Radiant_* 15:03, May 17, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete Nothing is exempt from the rules of wikipedia, including schools as it relates to notability. --InShaneee 15:06, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Wikipedia does not have rules relating to notability, only opinions. --Unfocused 15:25, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
    • Um, not exactly. We constantly and consistently vote on bands and people and places and franchises and whatnot and call them "non-notable" and seem to have a fixed agreement about them... so surely using such terms in the sense of a school is just as "lawful"? Or is a school suddenly exempt from the evil "nn" reason being a valid comment alongside a vote? Please explain. Master Thief Garrett 15:36, 17 May 2005 (UTC) Scratch that, DON'T explain, these Vfds are crammed enough with "ethical" debates as it is. Just think about what I just said, and about what the answer, if any, is. Master Thief Garrett 15:37, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
      • On some of those, we have consensus and general agreement. On this we don't. --Unfocused 20:33, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• Merge/Consolidate into an article on the local school administrative district, or else keep. — RJH 16:15, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep -- Longhair | Talk 17:03, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep R Calvete 20:10, 2005 May 17 (UTC)
• Delete. Useless collection of generic facts about an insignificant school. This is not an encyclopedia article. Individual schools are not inherently encyclopedic and there is nothing to distinguish insignificant schools like this one from thousands of nearly identical schools around the world. Gamaliel 20:28, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep the schoolcruft. Ketsuban has spoken. The debate is over. 21:21, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Bogus (non-policy) mass nomination, clogging the VFD system - notability is still not a listed deletion criterion - David Gerard 23:19, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Non-notable. Quale 23:59, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep per my school article policy. Kelly Martin 02:16, May 18, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep as per the deletion policy and general consensus on Wikipedia. —RaD Man (talk) 08:06, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Introduce a limit of 3 nominations per dayCalJW 18:48, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete = not notable. NoAccount 03:03, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. We don't even have a policy about schools yet -- hold off on the deletions. Visit Project Schoolwatch. --Zantastik 22:19, 20 May 2005 (UTC)

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