Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/King Edward VI School, Spilsby


 * 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 Keep per WP:SNOW and per improvements of article. Non-admin closure. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • (Broken clamshells•Otter chirps) 17:50, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

King Edward VI School, Spilsby

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As this article is written, notability is not immediately apparent. Ecoleetage (talk) 00:42, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Give me a chance, I haven't started working on it properly yet. I am compiling the article in a word document sandbox on my laptop and will upload it sometime in the next couple of days. As a rough guideline it will end up pretty much like the entry I compiled for a neighbouring Lincolnshire Grammar School Skegness Grammar School which has a similar length of history 21stCenturyGreenstuff (talk) 00:48, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment You may want to consider editing on-wiki from now on. Not only may you dispense with complicated formatting translation issues, you put more of the article online sooner, and you gain the benefit of collaboration with other Wikipedians. Wikipedia articles should not be thought of as something you upload when done. --Dhartung | Talk 03:56, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Well Dhartung, the reason I have recently started doing it that way is evidenced by this very AfD discussion. It is very difficult to build a complicated entry complete with tables and references all in one hit. Here for example I opened with a couple of starter paragraphs, just to get the topic up onto wiki and SIX MINUTES later (while I was adding further info in edit mode) our friend Ecoleetage hit the article with an AfD tag. Using sandbox is impracical as it may take two days to build a coherant entry but sandbox is wiped every 12 hours. Sadly I have not yet worked out how to use my userspace (which would be an obvious and ideal answer if I can suss it out) and a core build in MS word works OK for me except for the exclamation marks that don't transfer properly. 21stCenturyGreenstuff (talk) 16:02, 24 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Keep as it is very new. One caveat: This is completely incomprehensible to me as an American, so you might want to develop it in your userspace until it's ready. Maybe redirect this page to the school district until then. Potatoswatter (talk) 01:01, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep as per Potatoswatter. Aren't high schools automatically notable? --Deadly&forall;ssassin 01:04, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions.   -- ~ Eóin (talk) 03:16, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Procedural keep, let article develop then take to AfD if there are concerns. CRGreathouse (t | c) 05:23, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep. Let the article develop, and also, as one of a few schools to have partial-selection I would say it passes Notability, due to the controversial nature of partial selection. -- JulesN   Talk  10:24, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep - AfD'd 6 minutes after creation? That's what I call giving a stub a chance to grow :-( In any case, its not only a high school with plenty of sources available but a highly unusual bilateral school. TerriersFan (talk) 10:26, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep WP:SCHOOLS means a secondary school in the UK is automatically notable, but founded nearly 600 years ago by a king and one of only a handful of unusual bi-lateral schools? I don't know why this was nominated for deletion in the first place 21stCenturyGreenstuff (talk) 13:06, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep A thorough, well-written article for a notable institution. Alansohn (talk) 13:21, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep. In addition to everything above, notability does not need to be immediately apparent, but should at least be allowed the standard 5 days to be demonstrated, just as it would get at an AfD. If you have notability concerns for a new article, tag it first, and if nothing develops then consider deletion, rather than waste a lot of other people's time because you jumped too soon. —Quasirandom (talk) 14:45, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep per above.--Berig (talk) 16:42, 24 April 2008 (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 a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.