Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of schools in Finland


 * 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. W.marsh 16:43, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

List of schools in Finland

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Delete WP:NOT - we have categories for schools, this would be a list of mostly non-notable schools, nursery schools, driving schools, elementary schools, vocational schools, sunday schools -- Carlossuarez46 (talk) 21:19, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletions.   —User:Ceyockey ( talk to me ) 16:22, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Finland-related deletions.   —User:Ceyockey ( talk to me ) 16:22, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Weak Delete It might be more of a stub, then anything. I don't really see that it is a directory, as in number 3 of WP:NOT, it doesn't have anything in that section  C t j f 8 3  22:26, 16 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete There's nothing even there. I would support a future version with more than just one blue link and one red link, as long as it rose above WP:LISTCRUFT, but as it is, it's completely worthless. --Closedmouth (talk) 04:05, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
 * delete not a directoryBalloonman (talk) 07:49, 18 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Comment: I'm not sure the nomination has sufficiently explained itself. Just because the schools are not individually notable does not mean that a list could not be.  I'm not familiar enough with the relevant policy on lists to decide this one. Plus, a general article might keep down the number of articles on nn schools... what does everyone say? CRGreathouse (t | c) 21:46, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep See list of schools in Florida, List of schools in Alabama, List of schools in Derbyshire. This is a country! QED. Amended to strong in the light of talk's work Victuallers (talk) 11:38, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep Editors can organize this list in ways that a category cannot be organized, and a start has been made on that already. Noroton (Noroton) 01:07, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment I've added significantly to the list, including a link to the category that includes 73 other "Schools in" lists by country. This list has a number of Finnish spellings and translated titles, which is something useful that a category could not provide. It also has a redlink, which a category could not provide but which is the type of listing that might be useful hereNoroton (talk) 01:34, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete If this list is ever any where near complete then it would have way too many entries to be practical or navigable. It's inclusion criteria is not specified - as menitoned above it could include entries for any cooking school, fly-fishing school or snow-skiing school in Finland.Garrie 03:04, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Well, I suppose you could call this point WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS, but ... Category:Lists of schools by country ... Noroton (talk) 23:37, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
 * From my initial look - List of kindergartens in Hong Kong has a clear scope. Some other articles may face the same lack of scope as List of schools in Finland does but I have not looked at all of them.Garrie 04:44, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Secondly, I am reasonably sure that there are administrative divisions in education below the national education department. This would be better as Lists of schools in Finland, linking to List of schools in whatever district, Finland.Garrie 04:49, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete in favor of using Category:Schools in Finland and subcategories; ensure that list content is reflected in category prior to deletion&mdash;I can sympathize with the request that we consider both red-link (yet to be written) school articles and accommodation for alternative spellings that categories have difficulty fulfilling. However, red-link school articles can be referred to in the city/district article and alternative spellings can be addressed by redirects that are categorized so as to appear alongside main article titles.  I believe that arguments for deletion of the list based on 'it will be too long', 'it will be incomplete', 'it will attract school-cruft' and 'its scope is ill-defined' are none of them valid in the present context. --User:Ceyockey ( talk to me ) 15:12, 24 November 2007 (UTC)


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