Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Horace Mann Elementary School

 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. After counting all the votes, and subtracting all the unsigned, anon, and sockpuppet votes, the tally I got was: Delete 18 / Keep 10 / Merge 2. -- AllyUnion (talk) 06:11, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Horace Mann Elementary School
Non notable. Delete -- Chris 73 Talk 00:55, Jan 30, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Yep I'd agree. Not notable. --Woohookitty 01:40, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep if they put their references on the article. (Notability is still not a criterion, but verifiability most certainly is) - David Gerard 03:07, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete despite being a place of learning and happiness. Gamaliel 03:33, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, banish all places of happiness from wikipedia! --fvw *  04:48, 2005 Jan 30 (UTC)
 * weak Keep There is some potential, but I think detail and organization are lacking. At least it has more than is a school in as many schools on CfD have. If one is willing to do the background research on schools, you can fing many interesting and notable details on most schools. This one is close to minimal, but could be expanded by anyone willing to do the leg-work. I hope the original creator actually comes back to read this instead of giving up because it's been CfD'd Weaponofmassinstruction 09:30, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Agreed. This is much more than a sub-stub.  This stub is well on its way to becoming yet another great article on Wikipedia.  It's a shame that deletionists fail to recognize that.  GRider\talk 18:38, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Absolutely nothing to distinguish it from tens of thousands of others, thus unencyclopedic. &mdash;Korath (Talk) 09:56, Jan 30, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, due to lack of exceptional evidence of note. How many schools advertise themselves as a place of confinement and misery, anyway? Average Earthman 19:05, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Article doesn't establish why it's more notable than the hundreds of thousands of other elementary schools (53,066 public elementaries in the US alone, nine of which are named Horace Mann Elementary) in the world. Niteowlneils 19:58, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * That's one very good reason, for starters.--Centauri 21:58, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Second choice, merge/redir to Oak Park Elementary School District (the redir may become a disamb at some point, but at the moment, no other Wikipedia article seems to reference "Horace Mann Elementary"). Niteowlneils 20:29, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)


 * School. Keep. --Centauri 21:55, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Non-notable. Delete. Jayjg (talk)  03:23, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * delete. &rarr;Raul654 06:21, Jan 31, 2005 (UTC)
 * Auto-Delete &mdash; Stevie is the man!  Talk 09:10, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge into relevant community (wherever it is) and delete - Skysmith 09:59, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and allow for organic growth. GRider\talk 18:13, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Yet another school article that fails to provide any insights of encyclopedic worth.  Wikipedia is not a general knowledge database. Indrian 00:32, Feb 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. &mdash;Ben Brockert (42) 00:54, Feb 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. This particular school article is definitely worth keeping, it's not just a sub-stub.  I wish I could say the same about the other 5 on VfD today.  &mdash;RaD Man (talk) 10:12, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. It's cleanly written and has a picture, but the article is almost painfully generic. No evidence of notability. A statement like "The school has grades from kindergarten to 5th, has a library and a technology center, and teaches many students from all over the district" could apply to almost any elementary school. Isomorphic 22:54, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * keep all places of happiness. Yuckfoo 18:48, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * My bathroom is a place of happiness too. Perhaps I should take a picture of it and start an article. Jayjg (talk)  19:44, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. It might be better written than the other school on VfD atm, but it's still not notable. Xezbeth  19:48, Feb 2, 2005 (UTC)
 * KEEP what radman said ... definately better than some of the other school stubs, but it does need a reference.  ALKIVAR &trade;[[Image:Radioactive.svg|18px|]] 00:59, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Schoolcrufta delenda est! Edeans 04:57, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. JYolkowski 00:40, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep I think this article is worth keeping. It might not say in the article, but it was the spot where 21 snowmen, 3 snowwomen, and 6 snowchildren melted on April 2, 2002.
 * I removed that bit as it was unencyclopedic. Also, you'll want to sign your vote if you want it to count.  JYolkowski 02:17, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete No offense, but this article is useless. And I don't think it has any significance at all. - TheThing1001
 * Keep. Rhobite 00:59, Feb 4, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not notable. Enochlau 01:16, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not notable. TomTheHand 01:39, Feb 4, 2005 (UTC)
 * No indication of notability, so delete. RadicalSubversiv E 07:55, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)


 * Definitely keep. This article should stay!
 * Keep Why do they want to erase this?
 * Keep! Horace Mann Elementary School is the place where a bunch of snowmen melted in 2002! It was the biggest snowman melting in the US! Like 30 snowmen. Keep!!!!!
 * Keep
 * I think delete, not sure
 * Keep immediatly! Warning! This is a Kristof's Things, inc. government file! Keep this article or this webiste will be vaporized. Thank you.
 * This article is cool. Don't delete. This is my school!
 * Please keep This is an alien from Pluto. I request you keep this Earth article, please.
 * Keep This article is awsome! Aha! Lets keep is Yeah!
 * All of the above are from KFan II, the creator of this article. Also note his scant contributions.  KFan II, please be aware that you're not fooling anybody; once would have been sufficient. &mdash;Korath (Talk) 01:12, Feb 6, 2005 (UTC)


 * Keep Sufficiently notable, many results on Google. Certainly more notable than a lot of the c**p on Wikipedia, this one has just been jumped on for some reason. TigerShark 22:54, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Please keep. Please note: I'm not assicited with Horace Mann or this KFan II person. If you want to know, I'm Personperson
 * Vote is user's first edit. --fvw *  22:49, 2005 Feb 6 (UTC)

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