Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of films about 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 delete. --Core desat 03:48, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

List of films about school

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Delete - arbitrary indiscriminate list, also a directory of loosely associated topics and a repository of internal links. There is no objective standard as to how much of the film needs to involve "students" or "teachers" or "classrooms" or "school" to be "about school." The list tells us nothing about teachers, students, school, education, how these topics are addressed in film or the real world. Otto4711 18:30, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep - yes it has organizational problems, but I don't see that as a reason for throwing it out. It can be a useful list. StudierMalMarburg 18:47, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
 * WP:USEFUL is not a compelling argument. Otto4711 19:10, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment Just stating WP:USEFUL is not compelling either. See: Arguments to avoid in deletion discussionsStudierMalMarburg 19:24, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes, I believe that's where WP:USEFUL is drawn from. The point still remains, to spell it out, that the possibility that an article is "useful" or, as you say, "can be useful" does not excuse this or any other article from meeting Wikipedia policies and guidelines. Simply saying that the list is or might possibly be useful does not counter the arguments presented in the nomination, which is that the list is arbitrary, indiscriminate, subjective and vague. Otto4711 19:34, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Actually, this isn't so much an article as a list -- something like a table, which, as WP:USEFUL points out, justifies its existence by being useful, not by being encyclopedic.Noroton 23:40, 5 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete. The reason for deletion is WP:NOT, #1, "Lists or repositories of loosely associated topics". Thse films have in common only that they refer to school or education in some way; but "film about school" is not an encyclopedic topic, at least the list does not give any hint why it should be. --B. Wolterding 19:48, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete Because it fails to include the classic that is Carry On Teacher. Lugnuts 20:08, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per my usual spiel regarding "films about" lists: OR, POV, subjective, and how "about" school does it have to be? The introductory paragraph does nothing to narrow the scope or address these concerns but does lead to such an overinclusiveness that these things have little in common. Carlossuarez46 18:28, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete Fails WP:NOT; most of these "Films about..." lists should be deleted for the same reasons. Masaruemoto 02:32, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete List of loosely associated terms, fails WP:NOT. Jay32183 04:07, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. Purpose probably already covered by the coming-of-age film category. --Lenin and McCarthy |  (Complain here) 04:57, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletions.   -- John Vandenberg 13:51, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletions.   -- John Vandenberg 13:51, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom and ors. It's a loose list and doesn't meet the relevant criteria. Thewinchester (talk) 22:22, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep because I find the argument in WP:USEFUL quite compelling in justifying the existence of a list such as this because it's useful. Noroton 23:41, 5 July 2007 (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.