Talk:Portsmouth Academy

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The Boys page is bigger ...Victuallers 23:39, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Notability
There is no need for an unnotable school to have its own page, particular since it is in all likely hood self promotion — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.26.102.218 (talk)
 * I have to disagree, with some expansion and work this could be a very good article. Deletion would also defeat the objective of the Wiki Schools Project, as the majority of articles it deals with are of this type, and more notable education establishments articles are with other projects, such as Wiki Universities Project. Camaron1 | Chris  16:08, 1 April 2007 (UTC)


 * It doesn't work like that. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 82.26.110.9 (talk) 20:43, 6 April 2007 (UTC).
 * Again, I am not following this. Cleanup or merger is more appropriate than deletion, especially if it involves deleting all school articles in Portsmouth. Camaron1 | Chris  16:41, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Revert tag edit war.
There appears to be an anonymous user with a dynamically assigned, variable, IP address 82.26.98.237 -  82.26.110.9  -  82.26.111.152  -  82.26.99.28  -  83.26.102.63  -  82.26.106.254  -  82.26.107.31  -  82.26.102.218       to name a few. Who has for some reason, either simple mischief, dislike of the city of Portsmouth England or its educational establishments or some other reason not apparent, decided to repeatedly call by one method or another for the deletion of a set of articles.


 * South Downs College (Portsmouth)
 * Mayfield School (Portsmouth)
 * City of Portsmouth Boys' School
 * The Portsmouth Grammar School
 * Portsmouth High School (Southsea) a subdivision of Portsmouth
 * St John's College (Portsmouth)
 * City of Portsmouth Girls' School
 * Priory School (Portsmouth)

Similarly this user has recently made changes to the main Portsmouth page by unlinking Highbury College, Portsmouth College, South Downs College and Havant College Admiral Lord Nelson School, City of Portsmouth Girls' School, King Richard School, Mayfield School, Milton Cross School, Priory School, Springfield School, St Edmund's RC School, St Luke's C of E VA Secondary School and City of Portsmouth Boys' School.

In addition as, user Simon S Sumpton (since blocked) this user seems to have created diverts for
 * Admiral Lord Nelson School (Portsmouth)
 * King Richard Secondary School (Portsmouth)
 * Milton Cross School (Portsmouth)
 * Springfield School (Portsmouth)
 * St Edmund's RC School (Portsmouth)
 * St Luke's School (Portsmouth).

It might be suggested that the user is attempting by a series of guerrilla actions to use Wikipedia policies and procedures in an attempt to get administrators to remove all traces of many if not all educational establishments in the Portsmouth area.

While the standard of some of these articles is poor, their removal will not encourage those who have an interest in them to make the necessary improvements to bring them up to an acceptable level.

Deletion would also defeat the objective of the Wiki Schools Project, as the majority of articles it deals with are of this type, and more notable education establishments articles are with other projects, such as Wiki Universities Project.

Information. ISP NTL a British ISP has a block of IP addresses from 82.0.0.0 to 82.31.255.255 with addresses 82.26.96.0 to 82.26.111.255 assigned to the NTL branch at Winchester in the county of Hampshire (the same county as Portsmouth). -- Drappel 16:39, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

MERGE
I am against the proposed merge of articles suggested it would cause a loss of information in many cases and an overloading of the main page. Notably a similar set of proposals was made by an anonymous user to disrupt the Portsmouth page and those of its schools information is here and also here -- Drappel 21:08, 8 April 2007 (UTC)