Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Freetown-Lakeville Middle School (0th nomination)

Freetown-Lakeville Middle School 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. 14 votes to delete, 7 votes to keep. Postdlf 21:21, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Freetown-Lakeville Middle School
Too short a history (~ 2 years) to be notable. Mandel 18:15, Oct 20, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete along with other contiguous schools. Fails to meet the high bar for pre-university school notability. 17 pieces of cruft. Oy. --Improv 20:31, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete all 17. -- WOT 21:48, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep all. Why do people keep listing these high schools on VfD, they don't get deleted and it just wastes everyone's time. - SimonP 22:01, Oct 20, 2004 (UTC)
 * It is not a high school. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 23:16, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * People keep on listing these drivel and people keep on voting delete so that eventually, Wikipedia will BE a encyclopedia, as opposed to a collection of drivel and trash. Are you pro-knowledge or pro-garbage? -Vina 23:46, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * I'm pro-information. If any article is factual, informative and noteworthy then it should be kept.  How is this trash? Radman1 19:47, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep all articles about schools or people. anthony (see warning) 23:25, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete, non-notable school. Fire Star 22:59, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete, also fails to meet the middle bar and the low bar for pre-university school notability. I live within twenty miles of it and never heard of it. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 23:16, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete all 17, schools in an of themselves are not notable outside of their locality or outside of their alumni. -Vina 23:44, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * deleteWyllium 01:07, 2004 Oct 21 (UTC)
 * Delete - Alren 03:28, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. I didn't see anything in the article denoting notability. Average Earthman 08:16, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Abstain At the time I created this, it was so the List of schools in the United States would have fewer red articles.  Someone removed those links anyways.  Sahasrahla 20:48, Oct 21, 2004 (UTC)
 * I believe you, and you can't be blamed. That article has caused no end of trouble.  First, it had a noisy and ill-tempered VfD debate.  At the conclusion of it, people there agreed, roughly, that, well, the links to high schools could stay, but not the middle and lower schools.  From that, a person began saying there was a "consensus that high schools are automatically in" in article space.  No one can be blamed for going to the list article and filling in a red link, but no policy ever got adopted, so we're back to the same deletion guidelines for schools as for anything else.  Most of them fail because the school article fails to show notability of the particular school.  At least that's what I've gotten from the repeated battles and the multiple fat lips I've gotten through the last year or so.  Geogre 01:23, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)


 * Retain - Yes, it may not be of any use to those who do not live in the area, but all schools should be kept because they are useful to parents looking for information on their local schools. Since wikipedia can hold an infinite amount of pages, there is no reason to delete perfectly useful, good NPOV information which someone will find useful or interesting. Nicholas 18:36, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Infinite? Infinite? Goodness, that's really a lot. Are you sure it's not finite? By the way, during the last fund drive I made a small donation to Wikimedia Foundation to help them buy some of those infinitely-large disk drives... and I hope you did, too. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 03:10, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * D Unless the school system there is entirely screwed up, children go to the school designated for their area by the local authority. As always, the good old yardstick - if you can remove the names, numbers and dates and there's nothing left that will positively identify the school, then it's not staying. Chris 02:26, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Unless the school is notable, DELETE--[[User:Plato|Comrade Nick @  )---^-- ]] 10:35, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. NeoJustin 04:41 Oct 24, 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep - factual, verifiable entry. Mark Richards 17:06, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Indrian 17:12, Oct 25, 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. Agree with Anthony and Mark Richards.  Radman1 19:44, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep this. Schools are notable. Notability is not a deletion criteria. Intrigue 20:42, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep all 17, et al. GRider 21:41, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Article looks nice, but this sort of information belongs on a school website, not in an encyclopedia. Isomorphic 23:50, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)

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