Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kew School

 This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was keep. Sjakkalle (Check!)  10:40, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

Kew School
This primary school no longer exists, having been merged with four other schools in Invercargill. Was previously VFDed when it was still open, with the a slim vote for keep. Evil Monkey&#8756;Hello 06:55, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, informative article, a verifiable and important subject which made a unique contribution to education in its area. Wikipedia is not a news or directory service, so that fact that it no longer exists is not relevant. Kappa 11:46, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, notable. --Merovingian (t) (c) 12:11, August 3, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Gamaliel 16:21, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. I get the impression that antipodean schools are significantly more likely to be listed for deletion than schools elsewhere--though on the evidence of the current example this can have nothing to do with article quality. --Tony Sidaway Talk  17:08, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Not notable schools. That it is in New Zealand does not make it more or less notable, and it clearly isn't notable. Dunc|&#9786; 17:18, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete primary schools. As above, Wikipedia is not a news or directory service. ESkog 17:42, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as above Anshu 17:44, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete non-notable primary schoolGateman1997 17:50, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Non-notable former school, although the fact that teachers were allowed to say "don't do that" is pretty unusual. --Carnildo 17:52, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Closure is not relevant. Wikipedia should serve as a historical record. Osomec 19:05, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. &mdash; Stevey7788 (talk) 20:42, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
 * keep please how could someone want to erase this great article Yuckfoo 21:13, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep a school's closure is insufficient reason to delete it. We don't delete articles on dead people either. - Mgm|(talk) 23:24, August 3, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Primary schools are not entitled to articles on wikipedia solely by virtue of existing or having existed, but this is a well written article which has already survived one VfD. I would suggest it be renamed to e.g. "Kew School, New Zealand" as there are bound to be other schools called Kew.-gadfium 00:42, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Better luck in 2007, kids.  &mdash;RaD Man (talk) 02:11, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Real place, good article. --malathion talk 03:33, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Good article. Christopher Parham (talk) 04:00, 2005 August 4 (UTC)
 * Keep. I don't see something shutting down as justification for deleting.  If that was the case, then we would need to VfD many more articles.  As an encylopedia keeping information on our past is important.  Vegaswikian 04:56, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, historical reasons and Wikipedia schools arguments. -Poli (talk &bull; contribs) 05:08, 2005 August 4 (UTC)
 * Keep per Wikipedia schools arguments and the inherent notability of schools. Being an item in history is only evidence that it is more important that this article be kept here; there is no longer a staff to carry on an "institutional memory" of it.  Unfocused 19:15, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
 * We keep railway stations. We keep suburbs. We keep bridges. we keep highways. We keep schools.--Gene_poole 06:58, 5 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. I don't even buy the inherently notable argument for operating schools, let alone ones that have shut down.  However, probably shouldn't have been listed, as these just don't get deleted. --Scimitar parley 14:41, 5 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete the worst wiki-garbage I've seen in a while.  Grue  19:37, 5 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. arj 22:01, 7 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. More content and references than most of the school articles that get listed here.  I'm not quite sure why this one was nominated. Factitious 08:11, August 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.