Talk:Wildwood School

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Article listed on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion July 4 to July 12 2004, consensus was to keep. Discussion:

Unimportant school. →Raul654 06:50, Jul 4, 2004 (UTC)

    • If Wildwood should be deleted, then the entries for Harvard Westlake and Crossroads should be deleted. These are all prestigeous private schools in West Los Angeles.
Agreed - Crossroads School (lists 3 schools) should be deleted - there's nothing encyclopedic there either. PS - please sign your comments by typing for tildes (~~~~). →Raul654 06:56, Jul 4, 2004 (UTC)
  • Right, well I don't see how the entries for any of these schools violates Wikipedia policy. By the way the previous link should have been for Harvard-Westlake School. Keep. (who???)
  • Keep. How could you want to delete all that good info? A stub is one thing, but this one is really good. Everyking 09:22, 4 Jul 2004 (UTC)
    • But it reads like a brochure! Rewrite, at least. Stevertigo
  • Keep. I don't get what people have against schools when every township in the universe is regarded as sufficiently encyclopedic to be included. -- कुक्कुरोवाच|Talk‽ 09:28, 4 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Rename: I have a beef against the presumption of calling something "Lakeside School" or the like, when there are dozens and dozens. Let's put these schools in their proper taxonomic position: Wildwood School, Los Angeles; Crossroads School, Los Angeles, etc. If anyone wants a reference for checking the uniqueness of American prep school names, go to the Peterson's Guide to Secondary Schools (free online). Some preps really deserve mention (Andover, Kent, Exeter, two or three of the Westminsters) because of their role in US political history, but they have to be named in such a way that they're not confused with the British schools they're named after or with each other. Geogre 12:20, 4 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Keep, per Geogre's suggestions. Perfectly legitimate topic. Ambivalenthysteria 13:01, 4 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Keep. Pretty good page for a school, but rename as described by Geogre -- Chris 73 | Talk 16:20, 4 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • No vote (I've already lost this argument), but Crossroads School is in Santa Monica, not Los Angeles. RickK 20:18, Jul 4, 2004 (UTC)
  • Keep. I can't see how this violates Wikipedia policy, it has a wealth of information about a new type of education, and as stated above, Harvard-Westlake School and Crossroads are also entries for celebrity private schools in West Los Angeles. Eskrima 23:22, 4 Jul 2004 (UTC) [moved from VfD]
  • Keep, per Everyking's and Kukkurovaca's arguments. I consider such topics as legitimate, as long as the articles are not useless stubs. If the authors take the time to write decent descriptions, let's keep them. --Alexandre 08:33, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC)
    • Keep, per Geogre's comments to rename. It also needs rewriting. -Stevertigo
  • While I'm new here, I can't think of any rational policy that would justify deleting this except for wasted hard drive space. I doubt that's a concern. At worst it adds nothing, though it certainly doesn't degrade. At best a few people out there are thrilled to find unexpected information on the school. Maybe Wikipedia will get to the point one day where additional inclusiveness becomes the new goal...a couple of tiers of importance beyond the traditional "encyclopedia." Rmalloy 21:00, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Keep. There are a huge number of schools in LA; anything to help clear up issues and distinguish mediocrity from schools that are trying to provide good service is an improvement. A parent can always ignore this information, but not if it is not freely available. Ancheta Wis 18:47, 7 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • I agree that more disambiguation is helpful in the name, but this is immaterial to the article being kept or not. (anon vote moved here from vfd main space by Graham ☺ | Talk)

End discussion


The link to West Los Angeles now points to the district of that name. I don't know the precise location of this school. If the link should point to the region, that page is now at Los Angeles Westside. EmergentProperty 06:21, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

That's fine - the school is on Olympic between Barrington & Bundy - WLA. Thanks for checking. -Willmcw 18:07, July 18, 2005 (UTC)