Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Devonport High School for boys

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. 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 KEEP. dbenbenn | talk 23:55, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Devonport High School for boys
This was tagged as a speedy with no reason given, perhaps because it was a substub, a secondary school, and/or had an external link. I've expanded it a bit, and brought it here to give it a chance. Kappa 09:56, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. School.--Centauri 10:38, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, there's nothing in the article that establishes its notability. Radiant! 11:40, Feb 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. No reason to delete - David Gerard 12:37, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. It seems to be a decent enough stub. - SimonP 15:32, Feb 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Per the "Secondary schools are not notable in and of themselves" train of thought. HyperZonktalk 17:07, Feb 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep This and all school articles.Wincoote 17:32, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep this and all other educational institutions of all grade levels as they are inherently noteworthy.  GRider\talk 18:53, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Very weak keep. This secondary school seems to be involved in some special advanced programs, and has a long history.  BEEFSTEW score of only 4 (A, B, D, H).  Could really use some notable alumni and a picture. --TenOfAllTrades | Talk 23:13, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Non-notable. Carrp | Talk 23:15, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, while I would agree that universities and other tertiary institutions should be included in Wikipedia, this is essentially a secondary school. Just under the bar of notability. Megan1967 23:34, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep. I usually vote to delete high school articles, but this one seems somewhat notable. It's one of the first four Specialist Engineering Colleges in the U.K. just above the bar of notability. DaveTheRed 23:49, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * What 'bar'?!Dan100 18:01, Mar 5, 2005 (UTC)


 * EXTREME BEEFY KEEP. &mdash;RaD Man (talk) 02:27, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Are people still voting to delete school articles? Keep.--Gene_poole 04:23, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. No reason to delete it too. Not under deletion policy. --Andylkl 13:32, Feb 25, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not notable, which is a good reason to delete. Jayjg (talk) 17:32, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. At least it tries to establish notability, but it doesn't really succeed. -Aranel (" Sarah ") 22:20, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Perfectly fine stub. --Zero 12:55, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not quite notable. Jonathunder 21:52, 2005 Feb 27 (UTC)
 * Keep. I still maintain that high schools are not inherently notable, but this article establishes notability.   &mdash; Gwalla | Talk 03:10, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC) PS: removing vote tally template as this discussion isn't nearly long enough to warrant it.
 * keep The Recycling Troll 09:38, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * keep Yuckfoo 20:25, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Are people still voting to keep school articles? Gamaliel 05:28, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)


 * Notice to reviewing administrator: There was an attempt to vote stack on this article. See GRider's contributions.  Votes beyond this point need to be reviewed carefully and considered carefully. -- AllyUnion (talk) 02:44, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Users must consider all policies and former consensus before commenting for consensus: Please note, Deletion policy, is not the only policy to consider.
 * Votes for deletion/Precedents
 * What Wikipedia is not
 * What's in, what's out

Considerations should also be made to the following as well:
 * Google test
 * Importance

Users should remember that the Wikipedia is not an experiment in democracy. -- AllyUnion (talk) 02:44, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)


 * Keep but expand.--BaronLarf 19:23, Mar 4, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, high schools and beyond are inherently encyclopedic (and I shan't get started on all the video game nano-cruft that lurks around here). Wyss 21:07, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, as stated by many before, and I'm sure will be stated by many to come, secondary schools are notable. In addition, I don't see why school articles shouldn't develop into more  time, as current and past pupils will have the motivation and knowledge to do so. Drw25 21:33, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Clearly notable.  --L33tminion | (talk) 22:42, Mar 4, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Interesting school stub, wikipedia is not paper. --ShaunMacPherson 01:44, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Definitely notable. -CunningLinguist 02:54, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Returns appox. 1,000 results on Google. Notable enough, keep. - Mailer Diablo 12:20, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. JuntungWu 12:53, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. high schools are notable RustyCale 13:30, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. I think schools are inherently notable. Further, "notability" is not listed in Deletion policy (even though I wish it were, and have tried to include it), so isn't grounds for deletion anyway. Dan100 17:51, Mar 5, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. School. LukeSurl 23:38, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 *  KEEP  all REAL places -RickK^h^h^h^h^h. Schools are inherantly notable and this belongs on Wiki.  ALKIVAR &trade;[[Image:Radioactive.svg|18px|]] 03:49, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: In regards to claims of vote-stacking, their are large amounts of people who beleive well-written articles for schools are inherently notable. Merely bringing an article to someones attention is no more votestacking than providing a link for someone is. If you'll notice, GRider's contributions were far and wide and not concentrated on any bloc or mailing list group. Speaking for myself, I evaluated the article and voted to keep it out of sincere belief that it deserved to be kept and not out of any votestacking motivation. I have faith that the majority of the other voters did as well. Thank you for your time. -CunningLinguist 03:56, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not notable --Carnildo 05:01, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. It's a real place, Mark Richards 21:01, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. DHSB is one of the most famous schools in Plymouth. it would be stupid to get rid of it. Tim Morris 15:42, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, schools are notable (Sam Spade | talk | contributions) 22:18, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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