Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Gleneagle Secondary School

This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was no consensus. Woohookitty 11:41, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Gleneagle Secondary School

OrphanSchool with virtually no little possibility of growing beyond what it is now. Delete. Alr 02:17, 29 August 2005 (UTC) Weak keep. This whole schools thing is just rediculous, IMHO. Alr 14:07, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

You are in BIIIIG trouble, AlR - here they come! Denni☯ 02:33, 2005 August 29 (UTC)

What did I do? This one, unlike most, is an orphan. Alr 02:36, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

There's been a lot of previous debate over schools (see Wikipedia:Schools). Many have been VfD'd in the past, but most were kept. Jaxl | talk 03:40, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

I'm well aware of the problem with schools. If someone de-orphaned the article, I might be enclined to change my vote. Alr 03:43, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

Well, I'd place it in a sub-list in List of schools in Canada myself, but it only has a list for schools starting with "A". Maybe just place it in the main list for now? Jaxl | talk 03:53, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

It's been listed alongside another school in the same district, School district 43, British Columbia. Wikipedia is slowly but surely expanding its schools coverage and sometimes you can see the dots join up like this. --Tony Sidaway^Talk 21:14, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

• Keep all high schools. Pburka 03:21, August 29, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, doesn't indicate notability. Gazpacho 01:39, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete No indication of notability. DES ^(talk) 04:20, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
• Keep per Wikipedia:Schools/Arguments#Keep, etc., etc... -- DS1953 04:32, August 29, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, but 10 days ain't bad. Christopher Parham (talk) 05:14, 2005 August 29 (UTC)
• Delete per Wikipedia:Schools/Arguments#Delete Denni☯ 05:21, 2005 August 29 (UTC)
• Clear delete. See also Wikipedia:Schools/Arguments#Delete--Encephalon | ^ζ  07:09:02, 2005-08-29 (UTC)
• Keep, no longer an orphan. Kappa 07:17, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Deleting a school? Trollderella 07:49, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per Wikipedia:Schools/Arguments#Delete Pilatus 08:54, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Four walls and a roof is not encyclopaedic. Wikipedia is not an indiscrimnate collection of information. Proto t c 11:19, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, Proto is quite right. jamesgibbon 11:29, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
• Agree with Proto, above. Delete. Dottore So 13:10, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete how very dull. Dunc|☺ 13:15, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
• Keep I thought we'd got over this nonsense.Osomec 13:40, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
• Keep per Kappa. Jaxl | talk 14:55, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per WP:Schools Arguments to Delete. - brenneman^(t)(c) 15:02, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
• Comment. You want to delete a school for orphans. Man! Have you no heart? Sdedeo 16:42, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
  • You read wrong. It's just a standard public school - but the page was an orphan. I probably should have made that more clear. Alr 20:52, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. If we keep articles on schools, next people will be writing articles on roads and rocks. Oh, wait... Gamaliel 17:29, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
• Weak keep. This box-of-students at least won a competition for being environmentally friendly, and I can't, offhand, think of many that have. -Splash 18:51, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per User:Soltak/Views#Schools Soltak | Talk 18:59, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
• Keep All public orgs are entitled to an entry, especially if they have distinguished themselves in some way - however minor. Shropshire Lad 19:11, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per Soltak. His views are quite well-written, by the way; I encourage all users to read them. --Idont Havaname 19:35, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete or merge to a sensible topic (such as Schools in British Columbia - they're all the same, any minor differences can be mentioned as EXAMPLES. ) Does not warrant own article. (Note to closer do not count as keep.) --TimPope 19:43, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, as usual.--Scimitar ^parley 19:43, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Schools are notable Guerberj 19:51, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete Some schools are noteable, most High Schools are not. This one isn't. --Outlander 20:49, August 29, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. This is the first school deletion listing in eleven days. I was beginning to worry. --Tony Sidaway^Talk 21:16, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
• Keep WP is not Jenga, all school's are notable each and every one. Klonimus 21:50, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Jachin 21:53, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
• Comment for those who came in late, statistics on school article deletion listings since May 1: Nominated: 164; deleted: 4; pending: 1 6. There may be slight differences with other people's tallies depending on how you define a "school" article, but this is for those articles which were placed on the Schoolwatch page and logged in the archives. --Tony Sidaway^Talk 00:52, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
  • And the point of this comment is what? Denni☯ 02:17, 2005 August 30 (UTC)
  • To convince those attempting to persuade Wikipedia to delete school articles that they could spend their efforts more profitably on something more worthwhile--such as building an encyclopedia. --Tony Sidaway^Talk 04:43, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
    • Then it might have been a better idea to say just that. As it stands, it might be construed as a lecture for being naughty for suggesting such a delete, an attempt to subtly intimidate, or a little bit of the old na na na na boo boo <thumbs nose>. You should know that in VfD it is of especial importance to say what you mean. More to the point, what is it about suggesting the deletion of yetanother same old same old school that makes one =not= building an encyclopedia. Some of us see it as important that each entry should be judged on its own merits and should possess some degree of notability, not knee-jerked in because, oh, it's another school/mall/road/whatever. Denni☯ 01:53, 2005 August 31 (UTC)
    • I suppose my comment could be interpreted as an attempt to dissect the Gettysburg address, but I don't take that suggestion any more seriously than I take the suggestion that it can be read as an attempt to lecture anyone for being naughty (it's addressed at those who don't know the history), and I can only regard with extreme skepticism the idea that giving accurate, neutral factual information can legitimately be interpreted as an attempt to intimidate. It sounds like sour grapes. This article will be kept, most likely with a majority against deletion. This will not be an extraordinary occurrence. --Tony Sidaway^Talk 22:25, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
  • I reverted this change by User:TimPope. Feel free to disagree. —RaD Man (talk) 08:18, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
    • It could/should be pointed out that the vast majority of the 'keep' votes Tony cites above were actually 'no consensus' votes. Proto t c 15:49, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
    • Absolutely. But what they were not was deletions. We don't delete articles unless there is a consensus to delete them. Actually the discussion on this school article seems to be running with a slight majority for keep, which demonstrates how difficult it is to persuade Wikipipedia to delete school articles. --Tony Sidaway^Talk 22:20, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, but it needs some work. Mindmatrix 01:10, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, Highschools are notable for the most part.Gateman1997 01:20, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. More of the drive to drown Wikipedia in worthless trivia. --Calton | Talk 02:35, August 30, 2005 (UTC)
  • Why would anyone want to "drown wikipedia in useless trivia"? Kappa 08:49, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete: Non-notable. Sunray 03:09, August 30, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, obviously. —RaD Man (talk) 05:20, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
• D. NN. Radiant_>|< 08:45, August 30, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep - Easy, obvious, and clear. Only reason for removal is if one wishes to delete most articles on high schools. School articles give worthwhile information about the education system, that is not provided elsewhere. --rob 09:32, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. I see no reason to delete it. --Andylkl ^(talk) 10:33, August 30, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete seems to be full of dull padding to make it into an article.--KURANDO 12:30, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, other than there being little informaion at present, what reason or deletion is there? There is wide scope for additions by someone who knows more about the school. Evil Eye 14:45, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
• keep please evil eye is right anyways Yuckfoo 16:43, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. It is a school. And here I had thought we were past this and the deletionists had given up and gone home. --Nicodemus75 22:48, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
• Keep The number of school articles is well into four figures. Picking on one is pointless. CalJW 22:56, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
  • Following that logic, there are so many murderers in the world holding a long drawn-out trial just for one just doesn't seem fair. Soltak | Talk 22:59, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
    • That's right kids, secondary schools are just as evil as cold blooded murderers. —RaD Man (talk) 01:06, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
• weak keep Roodog2k 00:16, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Nothing to see here, move along. CDThieme 01:00, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete notability not established. Hamster Sandwich 21:27, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
• Keep this good faith addition of good content from a welcome Wikipedia editor. Schools are notable enough topics for articles. Unfocused 18:53, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
• keep, borderline notability. 24 at 19:05, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Non-notable secondary school. Quale 19:23, 2 September 2005 (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 an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.