Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fairfax County elementary schools

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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 delete and redirect to Fairfax County Public Schools. There is nothing to merge as the target has this information already. --Coredesat 05:03, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fairfax County elementary schools

  • Delete: I don't believe we need a separate article for elementary schools. Uponglory 12:17, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Merge and Split: I think that the elementary schools should have their own articles and I belive that, this should be merged with Fairfax County Public Schools DCUnitedFan2011 12:19, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Split Basically the same text is already on the Fairfax County schools page. This page was created as a result of an AFD discussion on many of the elementary schools. They all had their own pages, they were listed for AFD as non-notable, and this was the supposedly better result. The middle schools of Fairfax also had AFD discussions regarding their notability; however the outcomes were keep and no consensus. On the elementary schools, I am all for them having their own articles. KeepOnTruckin Complain to me | my work here 03:57, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
  • This AfD nomination was incomplete. It is listed now. DumbBOT 13:22, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Comment The Fairfax Public Schools article is one of the better school district articles we have, and coverage of that county's many schools is extremely good. I get the strong impression from all the work done there that this list is the beginning of a more detailed article on elementary schools in the district and that individual school articles may be calved off from this glacier as information about them is added (the opposite also applies: if you have a bad elementary school article, this would be the place to merge it with, since Fairfax Public Schools has too many schools for one article to fit descriptions of all of them).

Given the effort demonstrated in so many other Fairfax Public Schools articles, if an editor tells us this is the beginning of an article where more and more information on elementary schools will be supplied, let's step aside and let it happen. It's hard to believe that some reader is going to search out this particular subject and then be disappointed by what appears on the screen, so there's no harm in us waiting. But I won't vote "Keep" unless someone can give us a good idea of what is planned for this article.Noroton 15:18, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

  • Strong Delete per WP:N and WP:A. This is just a list of schools that would be better located on the district's website. As such, I am opposed to a merge here. --Butseriouslyfolks 17:20, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete this. There is no reason at all to upmerge this any further, do not do that. I support creating articles for the school provided they establish notability though. This is at best a non-notable list.--Wizardman 02:25, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep Typically, articles on individual elementary schools are not usually considered notable, despite some continuing objections. Since they aren't notable by themselves, this is the practical solution. I note the discussion, where some want this article deleted because there should be no articles on them at all, and some that it should be deleted because each of the schools should have an article. This is the reasonable compromise, and it would be unfortunate if it were to be deleted for opposing incompatible reasons. The article should, and probably will, be expanded beyond a mere list. DGG 03:48, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep Indivisual schools may not warrant an individiual articles put Category:Lists of schools in the United States should have their own articles. --FateClub 22:28, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Redirect to Fairfax County Public Schools - this is a direct copy of the list in that article so there is nothing new to merge. TerriersFan 01:17, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Redirect to Fairfax County Public Schools per TerriersFan's comment. It's redundant data, and any expansion that I could imagine would belong on the FCPS article anyway. --Dariusk 03:48, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete I agree with Wizardman. Hmwith 10:05, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Redirect to Fairfax County Public Schools. Content is already there and this article adds nothing that's not in the district article. Alansohn 13:54, 5 April 2007 (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.