Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lake Dow Christian Academy

 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 - kept - SimonP 15:10, Mar 31, 2005 (UTC)

Lake Dow Christian Academy
Non-notable school which had one extremely minor news reference in December 2004. DS 21:31, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * GRider has made an attempt at vote-swinging for this nomination.
 * Delete, not notable, possible school vanity. Megan1967 03:04, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. I would vote keep on any half-decent school article with a reference. This is so not it. - David Gerard 18:56, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. School vanity. DaveTheRed 06:33, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Make a mention in McDonough, Georgia and delete - Skysmith 11:26, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. School vanity; not notable. Jonathunder 04:01, 2005 Mar 22 (UTC)
 * keep Yuckfoo 06:45, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * For the record, it appears that Yuckfoo votes keep on everything.
 * So? thats his/her right to do. Keep all schools are valid. not-notable is not a valid VFD reasoning.  ALKIVAR ™ 21:10, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Actually, notability is a de facto deletion criterion. And people are supposed to explain the reason for their voting. Radiant_* 08:59, Mar 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * keep SchmuckyTheCat 00:23, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep It's another step towards the completion of the world's first global education encyclopedia. Wincoote 21:16, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Agree with the rest of the keepers. --Dittaeva 21:33, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * note this is at least the third school VfD where Dittaeva has made this exact same vote.
 * Well of course. GRider has been listing VfDs on schools on the pages of school inclusionists, including Dittaeva. Jayjg (talk)  22:45, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Arguing that voting consistantly makes one's vote invalid? How absurd.  --L33tminion | (talk) 00:52, Mar 28, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete merge anything notable at a community level onto the apropriate article, this school doens't merit an article of its own. Thryduulf 22:17, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. David Gerard says delete, the end is near. :-) Jayjg (talk) 22:39, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not notable. --Carnildo 23:09, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Extremely minor, even with bomb-story padding. --Calton | Talk 00:19, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not notable, spammer-supported. &mdash;Korath (Talk) 02:12, Mar 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. All public institutions belong in Wikipedia.--Gene_poole 02:19, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, same reason. --Zero 02:22, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Contains interesting information - Wikipedia is not paper. --ShaunMacPherson 02:43, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Abstain for the moment. Private acadamies aren't on the same level as high schools. --Andylkl (talk) 04:14, Mar 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and merge in more info related to the bomb incident. &mdash;RaD Man (talk) 08:22, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, Wikipedia is not a trash heap. Quality over quantity. Radiant_* 08:59, Mar 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, merge info, WINP. (Sam Spade | talk | contributions) 09:21, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and improve. If the existence of the school is not disputed, then there is no reason that this is not a valid article topic. Notability is subjective, but schools with more than a few students should automatically pass the test. Wiki is not paper. Someone please wake me up when there is finally a policy vote about keeping school articles.  ~leif &#9786; HELO 20:30, Mar 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * This is a cut-and-paste vote and should be discounted as such. VfDs are about the article in question not policies. Thryduulf 00:23, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Nonsense. When there are a bunch of articles on the same subject (schools) being deleted for the same reason ("non notable"), how would you rather people vote to keep all of them? Should the exact same reasons be rephrased for each article? Or are you saying I shouldn't be allowed to vote at all, because I found out about this vfd via GRider's "vote-swining" comments elsewhere? In either case, you are wrong, there is no policy that says my vote here shouldn't count and I highly doubt there ever will be one.  ~leif &#9786; HELO 00:43, Mar 27, 2005 (UTC)
 * The vote is about whether this school is notable, not whether schools gerneraly are notable. The exact same vote on several articles suggests to me that you haven't read the article in question. Whether you have or you haven't that is the impression I get. For the record my opinion is that many schools merit a mention on the article about the community they're in (or if that doesn't have its own artcile, then in the section deailing with the community in whatever article that is on). The most noteworthy schools do deserve articles of there own, just like most songs only merit a mention on the articles of the artist who sang them, and particluarly noteworthy songs ger an article about them. Thryduulf 01:07, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * For the record, we have a community music project which catalogs commercial music albums far and wide, complete with track listings. There are even certain exceptions where a single song title warrants its own article independent of the album.  Each of these albums merit their own article as much as any public educational institution does, IMHO.  And don't even get me started on the so-called Pokemon Comparative Notability Test.  &mdash;RaD Man (talk) 05:19, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * The difference is, there's some music, somewhere, that even they're willing to admit doesn't belong. &mdash;Korath (Talk) 06:54, Mar 28, 2005 (UTC)
 * Hey now... I'll be the first to admit that most daycares don't belong, if that's what you're getting at. :-p   &mdash;RaD Man (talk) 07:04, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * I really hope I never have to quote you on that. :) &mdash;Korath (Talk) 09:39, Mar 28, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Mystache 16:06, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and expand. Noteable.  --L33tminion | (talk) 00:52, Mar 28, 2005 (UTC)
 * All schools and other public institutions and facilities such as churches, railway stations, post offices, shopping malls, roads and bridges are notable, without exception. They all have a history that is worth documenting, and that history is always important to someone - even if it's not important to you. This is an encyclopedia people! Keep. --Centauri 06:58, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Even with the pipe bomb, it's not that notable. Saopaulo1 07:06, Mar 28, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, and expandible - I'd be curious to know a bit more about the school's religious and educational philosophies, and history. Samaritan 03:12, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Schools are inherently nonencyclopedic. --Angr 12:53, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. --Daniel C. Boyer 20:28, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep-Cooter08865

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