User talk:JoshuaZ/Schools

You basically offer the same answer as the guy promoting inclusionism to the question, "What action(s) should be taken to promote an appropriate breath and depth of articles on schools on Wikipedia?" Where you disagree with him is in terms of rhetoric, emphasis, and the answer to the question, "What processes and insights should be used to determine a set of appropriate actions to be taken on Wikipedia?"

While I'm usually not an out-and-out pragmatist, I suggest you and Siloam or whatever his name is set aside your differences and haul tukhus to start a campaign for deleting unverifiable school stubs, merging verifiable school stubs into regional articles, and keeping mid-length verifiable school articles.

PS - You still owe me an email from 3 weeks ago. If you like, I'll get ahold of you through Skype or AIM--just give me your contact info.

Invisible Flying Mangoes 17:47, 19 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Having read dozens of school-related AfD's over a couple of years, I'm sick of the same oversimplifications being rehashed on just about every such debate. Example: "Keep, real school. (signature)"  Many users who obviously understand WP policies and apply them reasonably to other topics seem to have a blind spot with regard to schools.  This essay-draft and the essay to which it's responding seem to agree that school stubs should be merged into articles on the community or its school district, which is consistent with general article policy; but most debates have people insisting on unsourced directory-entry stubs being kept.  In the broader context of the overall debate, I find most of this essay's arguments and conclusions to be better grounded in facts and policies than the competing essay.  Barno 19:01, 14 March 2007 (UTC)