Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Irwin Altman 172

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The result of the debate was delete. – ABCD 21:52, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Irwin Altman 172

A badly made page claiming to be the wiki for this school.

• delete BigFatDave 22:33, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Comment: If it is a wiki for a school, then I think its a really cool idea. Is WP the right venue for such a project? Or should they set up somewhere else? Paradiso 00:11, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • They should really set it up on a userpage rather than having it as an article. Megan1967 00:37, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Wikipedia is not a hosting service. Does the school not have its own web site, or computers of its own that it can run the MediaWiki software on? Uncle G 00:48, 2005 Apr 1 (UTC)
  • Comment: The school does has its own student-run website --BaronLarf 02:25, Apr 5, 2005 (UTC)
    • • comment I have looked at the student-run site, and it does not say good things about the skill or reliability of said students. Months out-of-date, frontpage plauged by broken links, that site needs help. The group of students in question should make their own site respectable before spawning something on WP. BigFatDave 21:14, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, do not userfy, per WP:WIN. Suggest someone explain this to the article's author if possible. Probably kids created the page without understanding policy, and should not be bitten. Barno 14:37, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• DELETE, but don't ban them.
  • No one is suggesting to ban them! They can put all the stuff about themselves on their Userpage, if they decide to create one. Paradiso 14:36, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Honestly, look at it! Jayjg ^(talk) 01:56, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and expand. I've re-started the article as a proper stub. It has encyclopedic potential. --BaronLarf 02:23, Apr 5, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. All schools are notable enough for a truly great encyclopaedia. —RaD Man (talk) 02:37, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. School vanity. Not notable, so no possibility to become encyclopedic. Jonathunder 03:07, 2005 Apr 5 (UTC)
• Delete. It's a middle school. It's in New York City. What more is there to say about it without descending to the level of trivia like the current "statistics" section? --Carnildo 03:38, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, nonencyclopedic vanity. --Angr/_(comhrá) 08:57, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Keep - As with all schools, I vote to keep. --Irishpunktom\^talk 11:12, Apr 5, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. A not-particularly notable Lawnguyland middle school. --Calton | Talk 00:31, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Non-notable. Noisy | Talk 10:36, Apr 8, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Remember that Wikipedia is not paper. Dan100 20:29, Apr 9, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Schools are noteworthy. --Zantastik 07:01, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Two sentences about a middle school and a plethora of external links don't even merit a merge. If there's anything worth saying about this school, this won't help. —Korath (Talk) 08:13, Apr 10, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, useless as hell. Grue 09:14, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. As written it is a directory entry, not an encyclopedia entry. WP is not a directory of schools or anything else. Gamaliel 14:09, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Keep this pls Yuckfoo 17:34, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Every school is notable, each and everyone. Klonimus 20:59, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. It's frustrating that keep-every-school supporters are reduced to Duckspeak instead of judging each article individually. -- Dcfleck 03:33, 2005 Apr 15 (UTC)
• Keep and expand this school article. Notability is subjective. I don't think the wiki is harmed by having an article about every verifiable small school that someone wants to write an article about. If a person from Irwin Altman Middle School 172 finds this poorly written stub, maybe they'll expand it. If the article is deleted, that won't happen. I don't see any reason this should be deleted beyond "because it's a school". ~leif ☺ _HELO 19:12, Apr 16, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete There is no reason why a minor middle school should be in an encyclopedia. Wikipedia is not the place for personal school pages, nor is it a directory for schools. NeevaN 19:16, Apr 16, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete Agree with NeevaN. The JPS 10:52, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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