Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lists of high schools in the United States 2


 * 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. Wizardman 01:38, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

Lists of high schools in the United States
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This is nothing but a list of lists. No context, no text, nothing. Replace it with categories. Corvus cornix 04:33, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete This should be deleted because wikipedia is not a collection of lists and because a category can serve the same purpose.--†Sir James Paul† 04:47, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete - we do not need a list of lists, especially of this nature. It's redundant.  --Haemo 05:31, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete Lists of school districts in the United States also fits the bill. Per above Corpx 05:46, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete The Lists_of_schools_in_the_United_States category is also the same thing. --Sdornan 15:14, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete as listcruft. Haha, it looks like Alabama doesn't have any high schools.  Useight 16:05, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletions.   -- John Vandenberg 18:22, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletions.   -- John Vandenberg 18:25, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Carlossuarez46 21:04, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete list would be way too long, endless, and unencyclopediac-- Sef rin gle Talk 22:42, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep What some call a "list of lists" is what others might call an "index". Sometimes you can find them in the back of "books", where one can find a shortcut to looking at the pages in the book.  The only valid criticism I've seen is from Sdornan, who indicates that there's something similar to this already.  God forbid that we would have a list of secondary schools.  As for Alabama, I imagine that some listophobe probably disintegrated that list.  Watch out Alaska!!! You're next!!! Mandsford 00:29, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Though melodramatic, your argument does not hold up. See WP:NOT. Books have indices because they can't be searched by keyword the way Wikipedia can. -- Kesh 02:36, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia also has categories. Corvus cornix 02:40, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
 * A valid point, and a category would suffice to replace this list. In fact, if an index is what's desired, simply see Categorical index. Which leads to Category:High schools in the United States. Thus, the list article is redundant. -- Kesh 02:47, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete/replace with category If it's a category it's self-indexing, provided the editor puts the cat at the bottom of the page. And there are only, what 3.1415 x 1025 high schools out there.  Acroterion  (talk)  01:33, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Strong delete Per nom and ors. This information is better served by a category which would provide more than enough context for navigation purposes. Thewinchester (talk) 02:31, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete -- Wikipedia is not a directory, nor a collection of indescriminate information. -- Kesh 02:36, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. Redundant list that makes more sense as a category. --Butseriouslyfolks 05:39, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete, and replace with category, per prior comments.--JayJasper 13:34, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge to United States. I'm kidding of course, just trying to show how stupid that sounded. Delete Wizardman  19:31, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete, there are so many high schools in the United States this list is a horrible horrible idea. Cedars 02:47, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete Category:Lists of schools in the United States serves the same purpose. Latr, Katr 03:31, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment Note that this is a list of lists not a list of high schools. Latr, Katr 03:34, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
 * yes, it list all the states, with links, but does essentially nothing else.DGG 03:39, 28 June 2007 (UTC)


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