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

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List of schools in the United Kingdom

 * Another meaningless list of schools. Delete. Radiant! 08:53, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - Too many dead links, quite all the information is now covered by Category:Schools in the United Kingdom as part of my schools mini-project: User:GregRobson/Schools Greg Robson 10:09, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Useful. Not as many red links as some "List of" articles. A category does not replace an article. -- RHaworth 11:11, 2005 Feb 20 (UTC)
 * Keep. I think it's a useful list too- at least until Greg's list is comprehensive- which I thought was the idea of wikipedia.. Vanky 11:32, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Fair point, change to keep. Greg Robson 15:29, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)


 * Keep Dead links are one of the main points of having lists. Wincoote 14:51, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Should be a category. Don't use red links to request an article. Carrp | Talk 16:28, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * That's what red links are actually for: Most wanted articles is generated from them. --Phil | Talk 14:27, Feb 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. I'm worried that some of you seem to think that having red links is a necessarily bad thing. It is, in fact, very much the way that articles are meant to be requested. Expediting features list a requests line at the top of RC for 5 pages are swamped by the millions of pages we yet have not. 16:56, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Isn't that what Requested articles is for? Radiant! 21:38, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Not the same thing at all. --Phil | Talk 14:27, Feb 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep -- If I ever needed such a list I know where to look Longhair 01:36, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Useful list. --Andylkl 14:04, Feb 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. --Phil | Talk 14:27, Feb 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Deletioncruft VFD nomination.--Centauri 20:56, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. It admits it's a partial list, but what is the category for inclusion? "Noted" schools? Schools Wikipedians went to? Best A-levels? (Dulwich College should be on the list for all three reasons). Or is it, as implied, just a useful repository of red links? How can it be comprehensive in any case: how many schools are there? Without a criterion, it is of no use. David Brooks 21:33, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm leaning towards Delete. I dislike list articles, and think most of them would function better as categories. DaveTheRed 23:32, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * You can't add red links to categories. Neither can you annotate entries. --Phil | Talk 12:17, Feb 24, 2005 (UTC)

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