Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Balmoral High School (Belfast, Northern Ireland)


 * 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   keep. Ron Ritzman (talk) 01:48, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

Balmoral High School (Belfast, Northern Ireland)

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Delete: Non-notable, POV-ridden article about defunct school.Rms125a@hotmail.com (talk) 01:27, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep - First of all it has been long standing convention that high/secondary schools are generally kept. The school being closed does not magically mean it never existed.  But even in this school's short tenure, it became notable per the letter of WP:GNG as it has received very substantial coverage, even as a failure including from national outlets.   The POV is a matter of editing and improvement, not deletion. --Oakshade (talk) 02:57, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment I was under the impression that secondary schools are generally deleted unless they show some sort of notability. Only universities and tertiary education colleges are generally kept, while primary schools are almost always deleted. 65.93.12.101 (talk) 05:57, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment - sorry, no see Articles for deletion/Common outcomes. TerriersFan (talk) 22:56, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Northern Ireland-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 22:29, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 22:29, 11 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep - POV is never a good reason to delete an article. The better way forward is to clean up the page, and that I have done. Long-standing consensus is that secondary schools are notable and that notability doesn't disappear when the school is closed. I would add that as a failure of the PFI (as indeed it was) this school has added notability. The way forward is to expnad the article. TerriersFan (talk) 22:54, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep per all of the above. Chris Neville-Smith (talk) 08:02, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep. Secondary schools are usually held to be notable. The fact it's defunct is irrelevant. Being POV is never a reason to delete an article on a notable subject - it just needs cleaning, as it has been. -- Necrothesp (talk) 08:53, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep. Even former secondary schools should be kept as notable. --Simple Boba.k.a. The Spaminator (Talk) 21:42, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
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