Wikipedia:VfD decisions not backed by current policies

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This is a list of pages where a significant majority of the voters on Wikipedia:Votes for Deletion supported deleting an article, but when this decision contravened standing policies. Pages listing valid reasons for deletion include Wikipedia:Deletion policy, Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not, and Wikipedia:Verifiability. For now these articles have been kept, merged, or redirected and a note has been placed on their talk page explaining that they may be deleted upon a change in Wikipedia policies.

1 Schools
2 Off-campus buildings
3 Books
4 Musical bands

[edit] Schools

Current policy: Wikipedia:Deletion policy makes no reference whatsoever to schools either way. Wikipedia talk:Deletion policy/schools only formed consensus regarding schools for those under age five and those automatically entered by a bot, consensus being 'delete'. Some guidelines for inclusion have been enunciated by User:Dpbsmith. See also: Wikipedia:Importance, Template:School.

St Edwards School (VfD votes)
St Andrew's High School, Kirkcaldy, Scotland (VfD votes)
St Stephen's School Bath (VfD votes)
Huntington School York (VfD votes)

[edit] Off-campus buildings

The following are off-campus student-run houses that are not affiliated with the university they are near.

Current policy: Nothing specific. Jimbo once got annoyed at such deletions. Some such submissions could fall under the category of vanity articles. Some could have fallen below the standard of Wikipedia:Importance, if that had been adopted.

Finlandia co-op (VfD votes)
Watermyn (VfD votes)

[edit] Books

Current policy: Nothing specific. Works by a vanity press or included in Wikipedia by their own author are taken to be vanity articles and/or advertising.

Meaning and Knowledge (VfD votes)
WP:FICT is relevant semi-policy, and regularly cited on VfD

[edit] Musical bands

Current policy: Nothing specific. Bands that have never released a record or receive few Google hits are routinely deleted as vanity articles and unverifiable. See also Wikipedia:Vanity page and Wikipedia:Verifiability