Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Middlesex school

This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record.
The result of the debate was keep. Ingoolemo ^talk 05:11, 2005 Jun 20 (UTC)

[edit] Middlesex school

School substub, (not in Middlesex). Pity it couldn't teach its students how to capitalise proper names. Dunc|☺ 14:08, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• Keep. Not a substub, correctly identifies school name, location, school type and grades taught. Does so concisely and that is no crime. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 14:33, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Non-notable. Doesn't matter how well the article's written, it's still unworthy of inclusion. Jasonglchu 15:07, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, concise, and wikipedia should cover education as well as it can. Kappa 15:19, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Comment - It seems to fail to meet the established criteria, in that I can't find NPOV info on it. Jasonglchu 15:29, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • I'll agree with "concise" at least... to put it mildly! Sjakkalle (Check!) 14:26, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, non-verifiable. Proto 15:46, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Comment. Proto says it's not verifiable and Jasongichu says he can't find NPOV information on it. Googling on Middlesex-School concord, I find Cross country racing records compiled by NEPSTA, driving directions by Tabor Academy, AISNE information (Independent schools organisation), and so on. There's plenty of stuff if you look. This is a real school, its existence and status as an independent is verifiable, and getting neutral information can be done the same way we usually research articles. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 16:52, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Comment: All right, you win on this one - I'll go along with it. I still maintain that the Orleans Infants' School, and the one in Twickenham, should be Merged. Jasonglchu 17:18, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Comment. Is that a keep vote? I don't close school VfD's (for obvious reasons) but when I do close VfDs I like to be sure. Are you changing your vote or is it still del? --Tony Sidaway|Talk 22:40, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep or merge into a school district page. — RJH 17:19, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Delete: It's a school. What makes this box of youth different from all other boxes of students? When did Wikipedia become the Yellow Pages? No notability whatever, no character, no thing to write about. Geogre 17:28, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Delete non notable. NeoJustin 17:35, June 8, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep -- Longhair | Talk 17:37, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Good to see some more schools on VFD. Christopher Parham (talk) 18:39, 2005 Jun 8 (UTC)
• Merge with the appropriate geographical article, to keep the school inclusionists happy. --Carnildo 18:42, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Substub. Gamaliel 20:21, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, schoolcruft. RickK 22:17, Jun 8, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Nomination cruft. Please do something that will benefit Wikipedia instead. CalJW 05:25, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Merge with Concord, Massachusetts per WP:SCH. Vegaswikian 05:53, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • With the notable added, it would be more difficult to merge this cleanly. So I'm changing my vote to Keep and Cleanup the article as it now stands it is only a boarderline stub in my opinon and the stub template may no longer be required. Vegaswikian 22:58, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Merge with Concord, Massachusetts and delete - Skysmith 08:22, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• This is a one-liner. Merge with Concord, Massachusetts. Sjakkalle (Check!) 14:25, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC) Changing my vote to keep based on the alumni list. Sjakkalle (Check!) 06:07, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Quale 21:25, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Comment. Well Kappa just uncovered a whole slew of prominent alumni, including the current governor of New Mexico, a Pulitzer Prize winner, and a mayor of Philadelphia. I guess that makes this article deletion-proof. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 22:25, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep verifiable and NPOV schools. DoubleBlue (Talk) 14:32, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Extreme keep. Excellent stub with a truckload of notable alumni. —RaD Man (talk) 22:27, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep highly notable -CunningLinguist 16:33, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete. "Highly notable" is it? I wonder how all these users have heard of all these places and know enough about them to make this call. They must all know these places from personal experience, since the stubs on wikipedia do not give enoguh information to establish notability. Either they know about these places from their own life experience, or they are making a judgement call without any information at all. An encyclopedia created by those who reach decisions without proper research, sounds a bit dodgy to me. Indrian 04:10, Jun 13, 2005 (UTC)
    • "The campus was designed by Olmsted Brothers, and Peabody and Stearns were the architects used for the main buildings.... a National Scholarship Program for the school, the first of its kind for a secondary school"... Sounds pretty notable to me, even though wikipedia should have the minimum possible requirement of "notability" for inclusion. Kappa 20:59, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep good enough for an article PeregrineAY 17:32, 2005 Jun 15 (UTC)
• keep please this is more an article than a stub Yuckfoo 16:50, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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