Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of notable schools in the United States

 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 delete. CSTAR 16:22, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)

List of notable schools in the United States
This article is already more than 30 kilobytes. I suggest moving the contents to five different pages or subpages to break it all up and make this a disambiguation page. 69.212.70.25 23:24, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)


 * Page 1
 * This page will contain 9 different states and the District of Columbia.
 * Main article: List of notable schools in the United States (Alabama-Florida), List of notable schools in the United States/Alabama-Florida


 * Page 2
 * This page will contain 10 different states.
 * Main article: List of notable schools in the United States (Georgia-Maine), List of notable schools in the United States/Georgia-Maine


 * Page 3
 * This page will contain 10 different states.
 * Main article: List of notable schools in the United States (Maryland-New Hampshire), List of notable schools in the United States/Maryland-New Hampshire


 * Page 4
 * This page will contain 10 different states.
 * Main article: List of notable schools in the United States (New Jersey-Rhode Island), List of notable schools in the United States/New Jersey-Rhode Island


 * Page 5
 * This page will contain 11 different states.
 * Main article: List of notable schools in the United States (South Carolina-Wyoming), List of notable schools in the United States/South Carolina-Wyoming


 * The above was my suggestion. If anyone wants to go ahead with it, then just do it. 69.212.70.25 23:32, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Remark. Several anon votes for retaining the article were ignored as per deletion policy.
 * Keep This, I changed my mind. It will only confused the viewers. 69.212.70.25 04:00, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * P.S. We still haven't figured out whether the District of Columbia or Washington, D.C. is the correct term.
 * I'm in favor of deleting the entire list, as it is inherently un-encyclopedic (qv the List of Shopping Malls in VfD/Feb 18th). It's far too tempting for people to simply list all the schools they know in here, and most schools aren't notable to begin with. Radiant! 09:48, Feb 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * See, for example, the entries for Tacoma, Washington&mdash;every last elementary, middle, and high school is listed there as "notable". &mdash;Korath (Talk) 20:26, Feb 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Wouldn't a category be much more appropriate? Carrp | Talk 14:47, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * The category would be just as unencyclopedic as the list. Radiant! 20:51, Feb 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, inherently POV. &mdash;Korath (Talk) 20:26, Feb 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * Move to List of schools in the United States. Then the schools don't have to be notable. 68.23.97.209 23:59, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Why don't you delete other lists (List of schools in Japan, List of schools in New Zealand, List of schools in Singapore, List of schools in the United Kingdom, etc.) too then, huh? 68.23.97.209 00:05, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Don't bother with it anymore. 68.23.97.209 02:38, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Good point, I've nominated those for deletion as well. Any others you want to mention? Radiant! 08:50, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. POV title.  The above question by the anon is a good one.  Why don't we?  The List of schools in Connecticut article is still here, isn't it?  RickK 00:44, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, actually, List of schools in Connecticut isn't there. 68.23.97.209 02:58, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Good. Neither is List of schools in Albuquerque, and let's keep it that way. Radiant! 08:50, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Inherently POV as Korath says. VfD isn't a forum to discuss splitting an article into different pages. And, to the anon who started all this, please note that I probably wouldn't have paid enough attention to vote for deleting the list if you hadn't spammed my user page. It backfired. 23skidoo 04:04, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Move to List of secondary schools in the United States. Delete the primary schools. Neutralitytalk 04:06, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete this is inherently POV. While selection of articles based on their notability or lack therof is a POV decision of sorts reached by community consensus, actually asserting within an article that x is notable (implying that y is not notable) is a de-facto promotion of a viewpoint. I oppose a blanket merger & creation of a "list of notable schools" on the same grounds - if something is notable, it should have its own article, or be discussed in an article -- When a topic is already wikiworthy, it may then be included in list of notable ____ (IMO, of course) Eggplant WizardTalk See notes in my user page about login problem 06:09, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Mikkalai 06:32, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Notability is inherently subjective. Indrian 06:44, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. I vote for breaking up the article into the aforementioned smaller sections named "List of schools in the United States (Alabama-Florida", etc. Then we can get rid of this monster. Rockingharder 06:54, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, move to List of schools in the United States, split into List of schools in Alabama et al.. And this isn't VfD-worthy, really. James F. (talk) 10:58, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep 68.72.134.124 22:10, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete If a school is notable, and you have information establishing this, put that information into an article about the school.   If you don't have information that establishes the notability of the school, you have no business listing it in this so-called "article".   Moreover, whether a school is notable is an opinion.  A list is not the place to express opinions, since the format is not consistent with presenting arguments and facts in support of the competing views.   Since lists are binary and cannot both include the school and not include it at the same time, one point of view inevitably wins and the others lose.    People with intermediate views cannot have their opinion represented at all.   Such a list therefore is inconsistent with NPOV by its very nature.   --BM 14:12, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep and move to List of schools in the United States. This VfD nomination is really a mess. People vote keep for something like List of schools in Singapore and yet this article gets a lot of delete votes. I fail to understand why. Splitting article in parts is not a VfD matter and the article being too big is no reason to delete it entirely. Grue 13:26, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep 68.72.139.143 04:14, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep 68.23.104.148 01:39, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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