Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Irvington Middle School


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   Redirect. Lara ❤  Love  17:27, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Irvington Middle School

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Horribly written, unsourced article about a non-notable school. Google doesn't reveal anything convincing. —  Wen li  (reply here) 02:29, 29 April 2008 (UTC) (talk) 09:48, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. According to the article, this school has a "principle" and an "assistant principle." Unfortunately, the writer of this article did not adhere to the principle of keeping personal information about fellow students out of a worldwide encyclopedia. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 04:11, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of New York-related deletion discussions.   —• Gene93k (talk) 09:48, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions.   —• Gene93k (talk) 09:48, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Redirect or merge to Irvington, New York. Some non-passing WP:RS coverage, but not enough to esablish notability. • Gene93k (talk) 10:01, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Merge/redirect to Irvington, New York per usual. TerriersFan (talk) 15:21, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete; my principal reason is that it's not notable. However, do we have a place to redirect all this middle-school effort? These could easily be a new crop of editors if we didn't have to cut them off at the knees all the time... Frank  |  talk  16:41, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment - the normal place would be Irvington Union Free School District if someone creates it. Failing that Irvington, New York is just fine, and the school is mentioned there. In view of your sentiments I fail to understand why you are resisting a redirect? TerriersFan (talk) 16:49, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Response - my use of the word "redirect" was a poor choice of words. What I meant was channel efforts of these middle-school editors. They are interested and have technical editing ability. I fear we drive them away, seeming as if we are an exclusive club, and I wonder if we have a place - other than the sandbox - to direct them toward. (See Rawbacon's comment below.) Frank  |  talk  14:05, 30 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Redirect to Irvington, New York, or move to Irvington Union Free School District and broaden. Also, cut the knees off the editors creating these articles per Frank. ;) CRGreathouse (t | c) 19:53, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Merge as per Gene93k. Double Blue  (Talk) 22:12, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep It: I think the page is fine...Many people from Irvington Middle School enjoy this article and will continue to post on it, so I do not find the information unimportant. I don't understand why we can't just leave up this page and let these who worked hard to make a page so they could say that their school has a wikipedia page...can't we just let the kids have their fun? What will it cost you, if you don't like the page, then don't go to it! -Rawbacon 01:54, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Following up to my recommendation above, in case the article is redirected, I would recommend a delete first and then redirect. I would like to get the listing of student romances out of the edit history. That's the aspect of the page as to which I would like to discourage the students from posting on it and having their fun, because it could affect people who don't even go to the page. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 13:54, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment: Administrators can remove specific edits from the article history for BLP violations and keep the authorship history of the rest of the article intact in case it becomes notable enough to re-expand. Double Blue  (Talk) 20:45, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
 * That's true. At least the edits that invade students' privacy should be removed from the edit history if a merge or redirect is the outcome of this AfD. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 08:22, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Merge/redirect to the school district. Stifle (talk) 20:50, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Smerge(selectively merge) to an article about the schol district. Most of the unreferenced information is not of encyclopedic interest. Edison (talk) 21:24, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete, no school district to merge to, and isn't notable. Oppose merge. Wizardman  14:25, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete and redirect without merging. There is nothing to merge for two reasons.  First, lack of sourcing.  Second, merging anything would create an undue weight problem in the target.  GRBerry 17:19, 7 May 2008 (UTC)


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