Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Union School District

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This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page, if it exists; or after the end of this archived section. The result of the debate was keep. - Mailer Diablo 2 July 2005 18:03 (UTC)

[edit] Union School District, San Jose (was Union School District)

This is too narrow a article. A Union School District is (?) a type of School District that is unified with greater independence per school. (nominated by User:70.185.179.4)

  • Keep in preference to having an article about each school. BTW if the nominator didn't read the article before nominating, then this VfD is invalid. Gazpacho 15:59, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep. I moved the original content to Union School District (San Jose). There are other school districts which just call themselves "Union School District" so this can act as a disambig. Kappa 16:06, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Comment a brief Google search leads me to believe that this phrase means different things in different U.S. states. For example, [1] [2] —Wahoofive (talk) 16:44, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
    • I think we should just dismbiguate on the name. Individual articles can explain the local significance. For instance, the San Jose district which is the subject of this VfD was called "Union" to express loyalty to the Union army, in 1863. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 16:58, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep. For some reason the VfD notice has become detached from the text which has then been cloned. I will move the article to the location of the clone and insert a disambig in the current place. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 16:58, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep. Anonymous nominator fails to demonstrate a grasp of proper VfD rationale. —RaD Man (talk) 20:35, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep. School district. --BaronLarf 20:45, Jun 22, 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep. This Union School District is named for the Union Avenue in San Jose on which the district offices are located. I recommend moving the page back to Union School District because that page currently serves as a "disambiguation" page for exactly one other page, which is not how disambiguation policy works. Nohat 01:40, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep - but do not move back to Union School District as I've rewritten that article to explain what a union school district is, as opposed to a unified school district - per California law. --FCYTravis 03:53, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
    • I agree, don't move back. The new article is good because it performs primary topic disambiguation on the general term and the name of one school district (and there are more, at least one in Oregon for instance). --Tony Sidaway|Talk 10:00, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep. I suppose I should vote since it's the first article I've contributed to be nominated for VfD--what a milestone :/ . Once the voting is over, I think it should be moved to Union School District (San Jose) or just Union School District (I'm pretty sure there are other cases of both First Caps Title and not first caps title articles co-existing, with 'top of page' dab links to each other, tho' I don't have any examples off the top of my head). Union School District could then be turned into a dab page once the Tulsa, Oregon, and/or anywhere else articles are created (disambiguation before being necessary is generally discouraged). Niteowlneils 17:33, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be placed on a related article talk page, if one exists; in an undeletion request, if it does not; or below this section.