Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/High schools in Illinois

 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 DELETE.

The votes were 8 delete, 4 keep. dbenbenn | talk 14:30, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

High schools in Illinois
One in a series. This is what categories are for. --BM 19:41, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)


 * Delete as a duplicate of Category:High schools in Illinois. --Deathphoenix 19:57, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep A list isn't a duplicate of a category, it is an alternative system, and it is policy that multiple systems are valued. Philip 02:24, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * delete, though preferably someone should check the schools have been categorised first; an article on "Education in Illinois" would be welcome however Mozzerati 22:10, 2005 Feb 2 (UTC)
 * Keep. There are lists of prisons, universities, an god knows what on Wikipedia. There's no reason for deletion. (Note: There are many High Schools that are proposed for deletion also) Beta_M talk, |contrib ( &Euml;-Mail )
 * Delete. Worthless unless complete; far too long if complete. &mdash;Korath (Talk) 13:45, Feb 3, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. My comments are the same as in the current VfD on High schools in Connecticut. (Forget to sign previously) --BM 01:24, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Wiki is no paper, schools are encyclopedic. --ShaunMacPherson 18:23, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. The problem with using a form vote is that you tend to look silly when you use it in a strange place.  This is not a vote for deletion for a school, but for a list that would be unwieldly if ever completed.  Deleting this list in no way implies that schools are not encyclopedic so your objection seems odd.  This is a debate over how to organize information on wikipedia and not a debate on whether schools are encyclopedic.  It makes me wonder if you are really paying attention or just slapping this form explanation on whenever you see the word "school" on vfd. Indrian 19:14, Feb 4, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, this is what categories are for. Jayjg (talk) 19:40, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, duplicate of a category and requires much more maintenance. Ashibaka tlk 21:18, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Use a category. Wile E. Heresiarch 08:32, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * As per the lengthy reasoning given in Votes for deletion/High schools in Connecticut: Move to the correct List of high schools in X form, Keep with the cautions that Wikipedia is not a repository of links and Wikipedia is not a directory, and send to Cleanup for all but one of the articles which do not meet the standard of ("List of") High schools in Connecticut and simply do not contain enough data to meet the purpose of lists. Uncle G 13:41, 2005 Feb 7 (UTC)

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