Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Aster Elementary

Aster Elementary was proposed for deletion. This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was DELETE


 * Delete. Non-notable.  (don't know who listed this)  RickK 23:22, Sep 26, 2004 (UTC)
 * Week Keep It's at least mildly odd in that it only has two grades and isn't simply a growing school. Florescentbulb 23:20, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Sock puppet. Non-notable school.  Delete.  RickK 19:33, Oct 29, 2004 (UTC)
 * Once again, very much NOT a sock puppet just busy and never bothered to create a user until recently. Florescentbulb 04:09, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Lost nomination. Delete unless improved (has little more than address and telephone now). Cool Hand Luke  04:57, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * keep. I've written lots about why I think we should keep schools, check out my user page.  Posiduck 06:15, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Good for you. I have a template for VfDs for schools because I think we should not keep them. Here it is: ' Delete''' --Improv 15:43, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Merge into Colville, Washington and delete - Skysmith 07:52, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Does not make any claim to notability at all. Average Earthman 08:57, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Does not indicate notability. &#8212; Bill 12:36, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. A person with only two fingers on one hand would be mildly odd, too.  -- WOT 15:54, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. No potential to become encyclopedic. Wikipedia is not greatschools.net. There could be an elementary school worth an article, but this isn't it. And there could be a good article about an elementary school, but this isn't it. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 16:24, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete: Information is just tabular data. A big ol' table for schools would win my approval, but break out and discuss individual schools only when they require a discussion.  Seriously: If people want to do Schools of Belmont, Washington and have a big table, then Schools of Olympia, Washington with the same, I'm entirely fine with that.  Such a thing would be no worse than Rambot.  I'm not an enemy of the information, only of presenting individual, atomic articles on schools when all there is to say is that they're, well, a school. Geogre 18:31, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Amen, brother. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 19:57, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * I'd agree with that. Average Earthman 18:07, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Indrian 00:07, Oct 30, 2004 (UTC)
 * Merge into Colville, Washington and redirect. &mdash; siro  &chi;  o  01:14, Oct 30, 2004 (UTC)
 * Merge into Colville, Washington and redirect. Done. I worry about backlash when people start asking "why did you dump that stinky stuff into our lovely town article" but we'll cross that bridge when we come to it. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 03:15, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Oh good God. If someone dumped this into Salt Lake City, Utah, I would simply remove it. Merge and redirect could be a de facto delete if this becomes standard practice. For the record, I strongly support merging and creating school district/schools in an area pages, but this crap doesn't belong in a town. Cool Hand Luke  07:47, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * So? If it goes into a town article, then hopefully the discussion occurs among a community of people who actually know something and care about the school and/or the town, as opposed to the community of people who hang out in VfD. Everything's transparent and in the open, all histories are preserved, no sysop actions are required. If this is done before VfD nomination, then no VfD discussions are needed. If it becomes clear that the town editors don't want the material, then it can go into VfD with some weight of informed opinion behind it. (Anyway, most of the time what will happen is that a substub about a school that nobody really cares much about will go into a Rambot article that nobody really cares much about, and everybody should be happy). [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 00:13, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Ok&mdash;but if they are listed I think we should avoid merging content verbatim until the vote is finished. Some readings of the GFDL suggest we're compelled to keep merged pages. Cool Hand Luke  18:59, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Non-notable school.   &mdash; Gwalla | Talk 23:13, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. The article desperately needs to be cleaned up with some actual sentences, and it could use more information on things unique to the school.  Ordinarily, I'd just go add those, but I'm hesitant to contribute while it's in this odd merge/delete/argue state.  Should I expand the article being discussed, or go edit some town article to add information that's not really about that town?  I'm inclined toward the former, but I don't want to interfere with the merging process, if that's what we end up deciding to do here. Factitious 08:37, Nov 3, 2004 (UTC)
 * I was not intending to freeze the text or obstruct article improvement. Suggest you edit the text in the form in which it appears in Colville, Washington, which is not up for deletion, even if you don't think it belongs there and even if you make it twenty paragraphs long and add three photos. Leave a note on the Talk:Colville, Washington explaining what you're doing. All your edits will be in the Colville, Washington history. If the ultimate disposition is to keep a separate article on Aster Elementary, you can merge your final text back there and remove it from Colville, Washington. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 10:30, 3 Nov 2004 (UTC)

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