Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of schools in the Philippines


 * 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. Icewedge (talk) 02:50, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

List of schools in the Philippines

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Nomination on behalf of User:Isko1901, see notices on both his and my talk pages.

Deletion rationale:
 * 1) This list is largely a subset of List of universities and colleges in the Philippines.
 * 2) A proper list of schools would be impossible to maintain, considering the numbers of schools in the Phillippines. Pgallert (talk) 09:08, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete I agree that this is List of universities and colleges in the Philippines with some high schools thrown in. Take out the universities and there's not much here except an illustration of nominator's other point, which is that it's impractical to make a comprehensive list of high schools, middle, elementary etc. for any place, particularly a nation that has 92 million people.  Mandsford (talk) 13:39, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete per Mandsford. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 16:29, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 19:28, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions.  —• Gene93k (talk) 19:30, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Philippines-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 19:30, 8 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete, too vague and too difficult to maintain. Also, WP:INDISCRIMINATE. Just to give a proper context: the Philippines (per the WP article) has 80 provinces, 120 cities, 1,511 municipalities and 42,008 barangays (municipal districts). This list would have to contain, at the very least, all the public schools and universities for each of these political divisions (there's at least one elementary school per barangay, one municipal or city high school, and at least one state university or college for each province). That means, maintaining a list of 43,719 schools, plus or minus a few dozen. And that's just the public schools, there are at least the same number (but most likely, more) of private schools. Listing them all here and maintaining the list is simply...impractical. The partial college/university list looks okay to me (although I'm not at ease with including every college on it, but that's for another discussion), but simply asking for a list to include even the elementary schools and high schools in the Philippines is overkill. --- Tito Pao (talk) 01:15, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
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