Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of schools in Singapore

 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 KEEP. dbenbenn | talk 00:00, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)

List of schools in Singapore
Wikipedia is not a travel guide. Most schools aren't notable, so a list of schools has little place here. A list of universities would be another matter. Radiant! 12:39, Feb 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - I have always found some of the lists on Wikipedia a bit odd, however if this list should be deleted then all articles in the Category:Lists_of_schools should be deleted. A list of schools in Singapore is no less notable than a list of schools in New Zealand. Also, why would a list of universities be more notable, we can take it that not all universities on a list are any more 'notable' than some schools? -- Lochaber 13:03, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * VfD votes are case by case; if there are other lists that should be deleted, you should nominate them for deletion. There are many pages in Wikipedia that should be deleted. That is not a valid reason for adding more. "Other drivers were speeding, too" is not usually considered to be a good defense against a speeding ticket. Dpbsmith (talk) 13:55, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Fair comment however I am not using it as a defence, I think lists are useful and a fair number of the schools on this particular list have articles. I don’t know how to use all of Wikipedias functions, is there a possibility of changing this list into a category instead? Could be changed to a category however I think that having lists can encourage ppl to create articles that have not already been created. Lochaber 15:45, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)


 * Delete. No potential to become encyclopedic. Dpbsmith (talk) 13:55, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. As I've argued before, I don't think there should be articles for lists of schools.  This is the purpose of categories, at least regarding notable schools that have articles.   Lists of all schools within a geographic area, including those without articles, are not maintainable and are not encyclopedic.  --BM 14:18, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, if anything it keeps the non-notable ones from having their own articles (if necessary we can redirect them to this page) --SPUI (talk) 17:19, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, this is not encyclopedic. Grue 19:45, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and allow for organic growth. GRider\talk 20:48, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Spinboy 21:19, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not encyclopedic. Jayjg (talk) 23:22, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, useless, trivial, un-encyclopaedic. Megan1967 23:30, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Obvious keep. --Centauri 07:34, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Has potential to become encyclopedic. --Andylkl 18:41, Feb 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, just because a list contains mostly non-notable entries doesn't mean it is non-notable itself. I also agree with SPUI above.  JYolkowski 22:31, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep It dosent even need to be "encyclopedic", because it is a list afterall. Of coz, we do not need seperate encyclopedia pages for all schools, but there is no harm in listing all of them here. This centralised list page will also cut down on too many unnecesary "sub-list" pages, including List of junior colleges in Singapore.--Huaiwei 15:32, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * While I believe we should keep this particular list I would agree with deleting the List of junior colleges in Singapore and the List of universities in Singapore (there are only 3 Unis in Singapore and given the size of the country I don't know that this will increase that much). However that might mean that List of schools in Singapore needs to be renamed as "List of educational establishments in Singapore" to avoid confusion. Personally I think that, since school basically means any place of learning and also because the line between secondary and tertiary education to a little blurred in Singapore, it doesn't really need to be renamed. What does anyone else think? -- Lochaber 13:18, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Hm...I wont delete List of universities in Singapore thou, because it is part of a wider listing of university listings List of colleges and universities by country as well as categories of the same name.--Huaiwei 13:57, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Fair enough. -- Lochaber 17:37, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - utterly bogus nomination - David Gerard 23:38, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Considering half a dozen people agree with it already, it certainly isn't "utterly bogus". Please be civil. Radiant! 11:51, Feb 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - Reasons for nomination are not VfD-worthy: this has nothing to do with travel and the non-noteworthiness of some schools need not rub off on the rest of the article. (I'd prefer "List of notable schools in Singapore", but whatever.) jdb &#x274b; (talk) 07:11, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Unencyclopedic. Put the notable schools in a category. Carrp | Talk 07:14, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Category of notable ones sounds like a good plan. Concur with Carrp. Radiant! 11:51, Feb 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and expand. Same rationale with Lochaber. - Mailer Diablo 13:22, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, useful. Kappa 22:08, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not encyclopaedic. JamesBurns 10:49, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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