Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Durham Academy

 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 - kept - SimonP 02:55, May 23, 2005 (UTC)

Durham Academy
Non-notable, delete. Neutralitytalk 05:16, May 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete unless wikipedia wants a short, pointless article for every run of the mill school on the planet. CDThieme 05:19, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, doesn't ind notab Gazpacho 05:38, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and expand. Just because an article is currently a stub doesn't mean it cannot be improved.  Let's stop throwing away articles and start working on improving them.  Secondary schools are notable.  --BaronLarf 05:42, May 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep schools. Verifiable and NPOV.  Schools are perfect for involving new Wikipedians.  First, preserve knowledge, then expand knowledge.  Thanks to Neutrality, I've had no time for adding content today. --Unfocused 05:52, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Kappa 05:55, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Instutional Vanity. Wikipedia isn't a triviabase Gmaxwell 06:28, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, unless merged with Schools in (townnamehere). Master Thief Garrett 07:46, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge into Durham, North Carolina and delete - Skysmith 09:35, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete and encourage authors to merge to the Durham article. Durham Academy is closer to Chapel Hill (and more a part of Chapel Hill) than the rest of Durham, and its students are (or were, when I lived in CH) children of Duke/UNC faculty.  Just another prep, though.  No real distinguishing marks.  Geogre 11:53, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep.JuntungWu 12:42, 17 M2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Subject should be verifiable. - SimonP 13:20, May 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Good stub. We're not running out of paper, etc. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 14:00, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - nice article. Lupin 14:08, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. K-12's are inherently notable because the entire maturation experience occurs there for some. -- BD2412 thi m k  act  14:16, 2005 May 17 (UTC)
 * Keep schools in wikipedia. --Howrealisreal 14:42, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, vanity - but nominator should be warned for WP:POINT. Radiant_* 15:03, May 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge/Consolidate into article on area private schools, or else keep. &mdash; RJH 16:16, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep -- Longhair | Talk 17:03, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep R Calvete 20:14, 2005 May 17 (UTC)
 * Delete. Useless collection of generic facts about an insignificant school. This is not an encyclopedia article. Individual schools are not inherently encyclopedic and there is nothing to distinguish insignificant schools like this one from thousands of nearly identical schools around the world. Gamaliel 20:29, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep the schoolcruft. Ketsuban has spoken. The debate is over. 21:23, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. WINP. Bbpen 21:50, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Bogus (non-policy) mass nomination, clogging the VFD system - notability is still not a listed deletion criterion - David Gerard 23:19, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Non-notable.  Quale 00:00, 18 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge with Durham, North Carolina per my school article policy. Kelly Martin 02:17, May 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Nominator fails to establish non-notability.  &mdash;RaD Man (talk) 08:03, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Introduce a limit of 3 nominations per dayCalJW 18:48, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete = not notable. NoAccount 03:02, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. We don't even have a policy about schools yet -- hold off on the deletions. Visit Project Schoolwatch. --Zantastik 22:19, 20 May 2005 (UTC)


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