Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/High schools in Pennsylvania

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The result of the debate was ambiguous. I count 7 clear "delete" votes, 3 clear "keep" votes and one "move". Failing to reach a clear concensus to delete, the article is kept for now. Rossami (talk) 23:35, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] High schools in Pennsylvania

One in a series. This is what categories are for. --BM 19:29, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)

• delete; an article on "Education in Pennsylvania" would be welcome however Mozzerati 21:53, 2005 Feb 2 (UTC)
• Keep. There are lists of prisons, universities, an god knows what on Wikipedia. There's no reason for deletion. (Note: There are many High Schools that are proposed for deletion also) Beta_M ^talk, |^contrib (Ë-Mail)
• Delete. Worthless unless complete; far too long if complete. —Korath (Talk) 13:44, Feb 3, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Lists are good for things that are not very notable and hard to create keepable articles about. bbx 17:20, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. My comments are the same as in the current VfD on High schools in Connecticut. If Bbx is right that these lists are a way to circumvent VfD decisions to delete articles about non-notable high schools, that is all the more reason not to have these lists. --BM
• Delete unmaintainable lists. As pointed out, we have categories for this. Jayjg ^(talk) 22:52, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Unwieldly and unencyclopedic. Wikipedia is not a general knowledge base. Even if all schools are determined at some point to be notable, a better system than this would be needed to manage the information. Indrian 19:17, Feb 4, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. There are categories for a reason. Carrp | Talk 18:20, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Use a category. Wile E. Heresiarch 08:31, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• As per the lengthy reasoning given in Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/High schools in Connecticut: Move to the correct List of high schools in X form, Keep with the cautions that Wikipedia is not a repository of links and Wikipedia is not a directory, and send to Cleanup for all but one of the articles which do not meet the standard of ("List of") High schools in Connecticut and simply do not contain enough data to meet the purpose of lists. Uncle G 13:41, 2005 Feb 7 (UTC)
• Keep and allow for organic growth. GRider\^talk 22:23, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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