Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Greek Secondary School of London

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 Keep. enochlau (talk) 23:41, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Greek Secondary School of london

Wiki is not a web portal, neither it is a website for the listing of every non-notable school. No valid reason why this establiishment is notable. Just linking an external website is not accepted for other articles. doktorb | words 19:59, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

• Merge with London. This article currently fails WP:SCH proposal and WP:NOT.Gateman1997 20:38, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Tagging this article after six minutes is completely wrong. -- JJay 20:54, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, I didn't know there was a Greek secondary school in London. Kappa 21:06, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

• Is anyone else getting a hoax vibe off this one? The "official" website looks VERY suspect (ie:Doesn't look like a real school site and is very amaturish).Gateman1997 21:13, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
  • It's not a hoax. The site may look amaturish, but it is using a .sch.uk domain name, which are only available to schools. Also, see this table which shows the school's exam pass rate. -- AJR | Talk 12:19, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

• Keep, though I don't see how tagging an article after six minutes is wrong. Move article to Greek Secondary School of London. -Rebelguys2 22:07, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
• Keep . Bad faith nomination - 6 minutes after article created, as JJay said. That is wrong if the reason for nomination is "fails WP:SCH", which it would pass if the article had 3 sentences or a picture. I don't think it's a hoax because of the official domain name. It makes sense that kids created it. —Quarl ^(talk) 2006-01-02 22:10Z
• Keep article after cleanup and expansion by JJay and Kappa. Calling tagging the article "wrong" is pretty close to bad faith as well, you know. The article at the time of nomination was pretty close to nothing, and new page patrol is something not everyone wants to do, so let's not bite nominators, please.  RasputinAXP  _{talk contribs} 00:11, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

• The main problem is that tagging an article after one minute or five minutes shuts down editing. It is not the best approach when the topic is or could be valid. A message could just as easily be left on the article or user talk page. I once got a warning from an admin for speedy tagging an article on a game forum after 24 minutes. The general rule is to allow editors 30 minutes for editing before tagging. Frankly, I am far more concerned about biting newbies than biting noms. -- JJay 00:55, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

• Comment I was merely checking the new page log to help out for a short while, and at the time of nomination I didn't think this article was strong enough. "High School - nuff said" is not enough for me! doktorb | words 07:19, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

• Comment This is a high school, the agreed policy is we keep articles on high schools...what more is there to say?. Apart from maybe "Tidy" or "Wikify". But as far as voting is concerned........ Jcuk 16:29, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

• Comment Wiki does not automatically allow all articles on all schools, there still has to be a weighing of the notability argument 16:35, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

• Comment I've never seen a general rule as to how long you have to wait to tag anything, whether it's as a Speedy or as an AfD. If something's tagged as an AfD, either the article will come out in the wash (especially with a wait of a week) or it'll be deleted (again after a week). Only stuff that meets WP:CSD gets deleted before that, and this article isn't a candidate for it. In my own opinion it's silly to AfD schools of any sort because of the cabal of editors that get up in arms about including all schools, but this school is clearly notable in its own right after doing external research. Biting the newbies can be a problem (and possibly could be, in this case) but we have no way of knowing because there's a huge number of one-off accounts since the Sigenthaler episode. This comment's getting a little lengthy. If we want to suss this out a little more, drop me a line on my talk page.  RasputinAXP  _{talk contribs} 20:29, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

• Strong Keep High School. nuff said. Jcuk 01:33, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete poorly written article that doesn't even use correct punctuation for the title. Cedars 06:38, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Merge with London!!!??? There are thousands of small articles about things in London, so that is a hopelessly impractical policy. Calsicol 14:50, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
• Strong Keep Surely at first it was created in order to register the entry.We can wait and see how it will evolve.Give newbies (and especially kids) a chance.It's absolutely a notable school.

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.202.40.99 (talk • contribs)

• Keep. Schools are generally notable and I see no reason why this is not notable. Stifle 01:42, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. It's an acceptable starting point for a fuller article, and the subject is notable. -- Jake 09:02, 10 January 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.