Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Elk Grove High School

This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record.
The result of the debate was - kept - SimonP 02:58, May 23, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Elk Grove High School

Content is: "Elk Grove High School is a public, four-year high school serving students in grades 9-12 in Elk Grove and Des Plaines, Illinois. Its colors are green and gold. The school mascot is the Grenadier." Non-notable, delete. Neutrality^talk 13:41, May 17, 2005 (UTC)

• Keep - has potential. Lupin 14:05, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• keep. That's actually a good stub, Neutrality. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 14:22, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep schools in wikipedia. --Howrealisreal 14:36, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, vanity - but nominator should be warned for WP:POINT. Radiant_* 15:03, May 17, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, as with all the others. - SimonP 15:05, May 17, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete! I'm tired of saying why. Master Thief Garrett 15:16, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, notable. Kappa 16:10, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete The funny thing is I actually know this school. Trust me, it's no more notable than the people in it. --InShaneee 16:14, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Thank you for this. First-hand dismissals are always the most useful. Master Thief Garrett 16:21, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• Merge/Consolidate into an article on the local school administrative district, or else keep. — RJH 16:23, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep -- Longhair | Talk 17:05, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, expand and echo Radiant. Too many nominated at once to expand all at once. Secondary schools are notable. --BaronLarf 20:14, May 17, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep R Calvete 20:19, 2005 May 17 (UTC)
• Delete, doesnt ind notab Gazpacho 20:21, 17 May 2005 (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 20:29, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep the schoolcruft. Ketsuban has spoken. The debate is over. 21:23, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Bogus (non-policy) mass nomination, clogging the VFD system - notability is still not a listed deletion criterion - David Gerard 23:20, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Non-notable. Quale 00:03, 18 May 2005 (UTC)
• Merge with Illinois High School District 214 per my school article policy. Kelly Martin 02:20, May 18, 2005 (UTC)

• Delete: Substub with no content. A fact is not an article. Wikipedia is not the Yellow Pages. This particular piece of mud has been on the site for about a year now. It inspired a vaccuous yelling match last time, and the usual suspects showed up, without reading it, voting automatcally, "Keep: All School Articles Must Be Kept No Matter What." It got kept. Well, it hasn't been improved in all that time. So what, exactly, is the eventualist and schoolfanboi position again? Schools should be kept because they're inherently significant (but the articles that show no significance must not be judged) and eventually someone will make it full? N.b. none of the "keep all schools" people seem to actually want to improve any of the articles, and the eventualists defer the obligation eternally onto the imagined Other. Meanwhile, we have pollution. Geogre 02:31, 18 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete or transwiki to wikischools then delete. Wikipedia is not a triviabase Gmaxwell 05:10, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

• Keep Notable, Verifiable and NPOV. Schools are an excellent entry point for new Wikipedians. --Unfocused 14:34, 18 May 2005 (UTC)
• Move (or Merge, depending on whether the following exists by the end of VfD) to Illinois High School District 214. JYolkowski // talk 02:20, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and expand. Valid and informative stub. —RaD Man (talk) 07:59, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Introduce a limit of 3 nominations per day. CalJW 18:51, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete = not notable. NoAccount 03:01, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Your account is 3 days old, that's notable. —RaD Man (talk) 03:03, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. We don't even have a policy about schools yet, schools are important, and this massive deletion campaign is terrible. Introduce a limit of 3 vfd nominations per day. Project Schoolwatch. --Zantastik 22:21, 20 May 2005 (UTC)

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