Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wisbech Grammar School

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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 of the debate was Keep. enochlau (talk) 00:39, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wisbech Grammar School

Non-notable school. —ERcheck @ 02:05, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

  • Delete - school with no assertion of notabiity. —ERcheck @ 02:05, 2 January 2006 (UTC) Keep and expand: Current expanded article now provides context and notability. (At time of nomination, only content was "Wisbech Grammar School is an independent school in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire.") —ERcheck @ 19:05, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete Not notable indeed. Cyberevil 02:43, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep and expand. As one of the oldest schools in England (established 1379) there should be more to say about it. -- JJay 04:39, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep quite notable, its 700 years old. However does need some expansion to meet WP:SCH.Gateman1997 04:54, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep age is quite notable, even for British standards. And I'm sure someone at Schoolwatch would be quite happy to expand it up. --└ Smith120bh/TALK┐ 05:17, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep - historicaly school which must have ample info available to expand. --Rob 06:03, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep. This appears to be a notable school by even the most critical standards. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 06:04, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep. Regardless of whether or not schools are notable in general, being formed in 1379 makes this a very notable school. Sjakkalle (Check!) 08:39, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
    • Comment. In ERcheck's defense, it should be pointed out that the article's content at the time of the AFD tagging was "Wisbech Grammar School is an independent school in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire." Sjakkalle (Check!) 14:34, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Strong Keep We keep high schools (btw, is that the English 'High School' or the American 'High School' we keep?) Anyhow a Grammar School is pretty much the same thing (ok not EXACTLY the same, but close enough it should be a speedy keep) Jcuk 10:38, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep Nearly 700 years old, and is said by Jcuk I agree ComputerJoe 10:44, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep as notable, and has been expanded since afd notice to meet WP:SCH. —Quarl (talk) 2006-01-02 10:47Z
  • Keep, even I would be embarrassed to see this deleted. Gazpacho 11:25, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Strong Keep as per Sjakkalle --Chazz88 12:38, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Strong keep, over 700 years old and has notable graduates mentioned. Unless the nominator provides extensive reasoning to back up his nomination I cannot possibly vote to delete this. - Mgm|(talk) 13:01, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
BTW, could someone remove the word "now" in the enrollment sentence and replace it with a year? - Mgm|(talk) 13:02, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
Comment: Just so we stick to the facts here, I'd like to point out that the school is not 700 years old, nearly 700 years old, or over 700 years old. It is approximately 626 years old. -- JJay 14:12, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep. How can a 700 year old school not be notable? There were very few schools around back then and even fewer have survived until this day. That alone amkes it notable. Evil Eye 14:31, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
    • Comment: At time of nomination, the article had only one sentence ("Wisbech Grammar School is an independent school in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire.") and had not been edited since its creation over 10 days previous. Expansion with more information now provides context and notability. —ERcheck @ 19:05, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep It's older than my school which has an article; not that i've ever heard of Wisbech. Dan 19:12, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Note: This debate has been included in the list of UK-related deletions. -- Rob 17:59, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep non-solely-primary schools regardless of notability. Regardless, this school now has notable information. -Rebelguys2 22:13, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep, clearly notable. Christopher Parham (talk) 06:41, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep, clearly notable. Calsicol 14:44, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
  • keep please the school is over 625 yrs old Yuckfoo 02:29, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
  • keep - Eminently notable and encyclopaedic, needs expansion though. --Cactus.man ✍ 13:40, 7 January 2006 (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.