Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Melbourne Elementary School

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 Redirect - there is a clear preponderance of 'delete' or 'redirect' rather than 'keep' votes here. Redirects are cheap, and I shall turn this into a redirect rather than deleting outright. - Richard Cavell 02:36, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Melbourne Elementary School

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This article makes absolutely no claim of notability. It's a vandalism magnet, has no sources outside the school itself, and articles on every elementary school in the world is completely unmaintainable. All schools are not inherently notable, just like not all pairs of shoes are inherently notable. Delete Mak (talk) 15:50, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

• Delete or Redirect to List of elementary schools in ABC Unified School District or some such title. Not every school is notable, elementary schools even less so. Dismas|^(talk) 16:06, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
• Delete as per nom. Betaeleven 16:15, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
• Keep. Almost every entry on teh high school list includes an article. See for example this. Since there appears to be no notability standard for schools and the de facto standard seems to be to make an article for all schools, or at least high schools, I do not see why this specific article should be removed. Also, AFD seems like a dull tool for dealing with the thousands of school entries--to me it would be more productive to draft a school notability rule. Antonrojo 20:25, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

• High schools are not the same as elementary schools. This is an elementary school. A consensus about high schools in not relevant. Mak (talk) 20:26, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

• • delete and, for that matter, I don't think there is a consensus that all high schools are notable. Many are.
• commentTThe article & further data in ref (2) gives various statistics showing this is one of the worst performing schools in the district and in the bottom 20% statewide. If it were possible to document notable efforts being made to overcome this, it might be N.DGG 10:26, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletions. -- Noroton 23:01, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

• Delete per nom, except 1) vandalism is never a reason not to include an article and 2) my shoes are inherently notable, how dare you sir?  ;-P --Butseriouslyfolks 23:18, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
• Delete because my shoes are more notable than Butseriouslyfolks' (and elementary schools are inherently non-notable unless proven otherwise) ⇒ SWATJester ^{On Belay!} 23:34, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
• Redirect, don't delete The article was created by one editor, then just about forgotten about except by a vandal whose vandalism remained for more than two months. I think a history of vandalism is a valid reason to delete an article. I would redirect to the school district to allow someone to restart the article at some point in the future. Noroton 23:52, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
• Redirect to ABC Unified School District. Allows for article to be recreated as a standalone once additional sources are available. Alansohn 01:55, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
• Delete No reliable sources means no article. Nothing suggests that there are references waiting to be found. Pax:Vobiscum 11:51, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
• Keep the tables would take up too much space on some other article. There's some good, encyclopedic information here. Noroton 04:08, 21 March 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.