Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Abingdon School controversies


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was delete. Tipping away from the merges is the lack of consensus there as to how much should be merged, and if that would be undue in the article as well. Star  Mississippi  03:12, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

Abingdon School controversies
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The subject of controversies at Abingdon School does not appear to be notable. I did some Google searches and only found routine incidents. Devoting an article to these incidents gives them WP:UNDUE weight. The only similar article about a school I could find was Eton College controversies and Eton College is much better known and thus likely to be more controversial. I believe that these reasons justify deletion rather than redirection. The article was proposed for deletion on 16 February 2022 but this was reverted. TSventon (talk) 09:43, 19 February 2022 (UTC) Relisting comment: Delete or merge? Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, – AssumeGoodWraith  (talk &#124; contribs) 12:41, 1 March 2022 (UTC)
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 * Merge back to Abingdon School, if any content is worth keeping. Ajf773 (talk) 10:21, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Merge Agree that the article gives WP:UNDUE weight. Should be merged to Abingdon School.  GoldMiner24 Talk 12:38, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Merge taking care to avoid giving undue weight to negatives in the school's article. Cataloguing everything that's gone wrong over two decades without balancing it with anything that went well is a total abuse of good balance. There is no justification for a controversy article like this, unless a school's main article has become so huge that it needs to be separated into multiple mini-articles about each aspect of it. Eton might qualify, this school definitely does not. Elemimele (talk) 14:53, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete Not notable, a few isolated incidents in the last few decades do not constitute worthwhile comment. Articles are supposed to encyclopedic and the danger of adding this information to Wikipedia is turning it into a tabloid. ApricotFoot (talk) 11:55, 20 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete as this isn't notable enough on it's own to justify a separate article from the school. I don't think it's worth merging either. Wikipedia isn't a tabloid and it's not like someone can't pretty easily just copy over what little information is worth saving if there is any to the main article. In the meantime, there's reason to keep the edit history since the article is only a week old and has only been edited by one person. --Adamant1 (talk) 02:28, 21 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Merge/Delete This isn’t notable enough to justify its own article, and as others have said it’s WP:UNDUE. Any relevant information should be merged, and the rest deleted.GeekBurst (talk) 16:59, 22 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete Poor article. Not worth keeping, doesn't add anything to Wikipedia. Johnny2hats2 (talk) 11:55, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete The article has multiple issues and article content fails SBST, WP:UNDUE and is questionable in other areas too. Pipesmoking Legend (talk) 10:39, 24 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete, Not a notable topic enough to have an article on its own and I don’t think merge would be a good idea. Alex-h (talk) 17:06, 26 February 2022 (UTC)
 * "'Merge"' : I agree with GeekBurst, this article should be merged with the Abingdon School article as not only their isn't enough information to be (in my opinion) a " full " article, having this not be merged / deleted would be a violation of WP:UNDUE. — Preceding unsigned comment added by I'ma editor2022 (talk • contribs) 00:58, 28 February 2022 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.


 * Delete For a number of reasons. The article has multiple issues and article content fails SBST, WP:UNDUE and is questionable in other areas too. Additionally the article content has been entirely created by a single user with no further improvements being made and the majority of the consenus is delete. Pipesmoking Legend (talk) 10:12, 4 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Pipesmoking Legend, please can you strike your vote as you voted on 24 February. TSventon (talk) 10:47, 4 March 2022 (UTC)


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