Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lake Windward Elementary 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 to Fulton County School System. (non-admin closure) Armbrust, B.Ed. Let's talk about my edits? 17:40, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

Lake Windward Elementary School

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Non-notable primary school. Proposing redirect to community, as is the standard outcome for elementary schools. tedder (talk) 01:10, 28 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Georgia (U.S. state)-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 01:14, 28 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 01:15, 28 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Redirect to Fulton County School System per standard practice for all but the most exceptional elementary schools. Carrite (talk) 03:24, 28 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Redirect per above. As always.  " Pepper "  @ 12:25, 28 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Redirect to target identified by Carrite and per established consensus.  Cullen 328  Let's discuss it  17:38, 28 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete It fails WP:ORG. No redirect is required by that guideline or any other guideline or policy. Unlikely search term for someone looking for information about a school district or community. The consensus claimed by Cullen328 is not expressed in the relevant guideline. Nor is the "standard practice" claimed by Carrite. Follow the guideline, until it is changed.   Edison (talk) 06:20, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
 * With all respect to Edison, established working consensus is very important, even though it may not yet be enshrined in written guidelines, but remains exceptionally useful to the smooth administrative functioning of the encyclopedia. Plausible redirects are useful, and I can see no reason to oppose a redirect in cases such as this.  The search term is more than plausible if someone wants information about that particular school.  If someone searches for an article about an otherwise non-notable elementary school, they will instead end up at an article about a notable school district which may well contain a brief description of that school.  That is a good thing, as I see it.  Cullen 328   Let's discuss it  06:30, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
 * On the one hand, I myself have no problem with a redirect at this point, which I've indicated above. But the points raised by Edison interest me. Are you suggesting that each of the hundreds of thousands of schools that exists, which is verifiable, deserves a redirect?  If we could create a bot that would create redirects for every school, in the world -- that it would be a benefit to have those all in wikipedia, with redirects for those that don't have articles to either (as the case may be) their school district or locale? I'm not clear that this would be helpful.  Nor am I clear that the target articles typically yield any information of interest, to a reader searching for the school. They could, I imagine.  But -- as with the current state of the target article here -- they generally don't ... they just lead the reader to an article that lists the names of the school he is searching for and a number of other schools.  Anyway as I said, I'm supporting a redirect at the moment. But at the same time I wonder whether there might not be something worth considering in what Edison says here, and what some others have said along the same lines at similar AfDs.--Epeefleche (talk) 06:55, 29 January 2012 (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.