Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of headmasters of The Hill 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 merge to The Hill School. Spartaz Humbug! 06:00, 6 January 2018 (UTC)

List of headmasters of The Hill School

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List of high school principals. Does not pass WP:SAL, almost all of the people in the list do not pass WP:GNG or WP:ACADEMIC. Rusf10 (talk) 17:16, 5 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions. Happy New Year!!! Baby miss  fortune 17:37, 5 January 2018 (UTC)
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 * Delete Sir Joseph (talk) 17:52, 5 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Merge - back to The Hill School as an unneeded content FORK. Redirects are cheap. John from Idegon (talk) 18:00, 5 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete - I've merged the table into the school article (I've not included the education part tho), nothing links to the List or article so pointless keeping around, Pinging incase they wanna go with Delete now. – Davey 2010 Talk 18:25, 5 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Merge / Redirect to The Hill School, as has already been done and which should have been the primary solution considered in the first place. I'm not sure why the nominator didn't consider WP:PRESERVE as a way to keep the content, but not the standalone article. Alansohn (talk) 18:58, 5 January 2018 (UTC)
 * I can always count on you for snide remarks, thank you! Maybe it doesn't deserve a merge because it is trivial information, did you ever think of that? I don't think we usually keep historical lists of high school principals in other articles.--Rusf10 (talk) 19:46, 5 January 2018 (UTC)


 * Delete - content is now in The Hill School making this article an unneccessary content fork. Ajf773 (talk) 19:24, 5 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Redirect to The Hill School where all the pertinent information already exists. The information added to the bio listings in this article is almost entirely not notable for a stand-alone article ("enjoyed tennis"? really?). Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 19:48, 5 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Merge with the Hill School.Vorbee (talk) 19:54, 5 January 2018 (UTC)


 * Comment - Just a random question &  but what's the benefit(s) of keeping this as a redirect ? .... No one's going to search for "List of Headmasters at " because the articles on this topic are next to none ....  It just seems pointless keeping this? .... Thanks, – Davey 2010 Talk 20:13, 5 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Reply I wouldn't mourn the loss of the redirect, but there are several other articles of elite private schools that exist in the format "List of headmasters of...", so it's not inconceivable that someone might assume that this article exists. Redirects are rather inexpensive; it probably costs more to delete them than keep them, especially in such cases. Alansohn (talk) 20:21, 5 January 2018 (UTC)
 * I guess readers could search for it, Okie dokie thanks for replying I'll just close this as redirect seems pointless keeping this. – Davey 2010 Talk 20:26, 5 January 2018 (UTC)


 * In light of the AFD being reopened and all COMMONSENSE going out the window I've undone my merge and as such editors can judge both articles, My apologies for speedying things up here obviously we all have to wait like children for the next 7 days. – Davey 2010 Talk 00:07, 6 January 2018 (UTC)
 * merge. a separate list is not required. The school is important enough that each of the headmasters might be separately notable, but that's a different question . DGG ( talk ) 00:53, 6 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Merge, I already merged this with AfD open which it what should happen, I've reverted the merge and decided to participate, I find it hard to believe such a short list could have any other outcome. I see no issue with merging this and leaving AfD open for the seven days, but I disagree with an early close. Valoem talk contrib 02:40, 6 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Wrong venue (As per WP:Deletion policy#CONTENT this discussion can be moved by any uninvolved editor to the talk page of the article.) WP:SPINOUT articles are not subject to deletion, as the remedy is to unspin them.  This is a decision made at the article or the article talk page by content contributors, whereas the authority of AfD is that of absentee landlords.  Unscintillating (talk) 02:46, 6 January 2018 (UTC)
 * There is no policy that says a spinout article cannot be deleted, especially when the article contains trivial information. This is the same "nothing can be deleted because of the existence of ATD" argument that you make everywhere else.--Rusf10 (talk) 02:57, 6 January 2018 (UTC)
 * I don't see any evidence from any relevant policies or the applicable editing guideline. Unscintillating (talk) 04:00, 6 January 2018 (UTC)


 * Smerge (Selective merge) to the article about the school.A non-notable list. Follow Merging and leave a redirect behind, as well as putting the required notice on the talk page of the target article and at least a comment in the revision history of the source article, to preserve the contribution history. The presence of the redirect might dissuade some editor in the future from creating the list again in ignorance of the AFD. Merger is an acceptable outcome of an AFD. It is inappropriate to swoop in and make an article disappear while it is being discussed at AFD. Edison (talk) 03:21, 6 January 2018 (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.