Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Maywood Avenue School


 * 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 of the debate was no consensus. - Mailer Diablo 18:42, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

Maywood Avenue School
Was tagged for speedy as "nn", but schools are not speedyable, so moving here for a vote. Nominator abstains. Jamie (talk/contribs) 15:16, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Schools are evry much speediable, but only if you use a valid speedy criterion. "nn" isn't one of those. - Mgm|(talk) 09:40, 22 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Delete; nn -- Krash 18:12, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, important to the citizens of Maywood, New Jersey, lets give them a break. Kappa 19:07, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
 * PS see also: WP:SCH, the article is probably a merge candidate ATM. Kappa 19:09, 21 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Keep for the reasons established at Schools/Arguments. Silensor 19:21, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge with district per WP:SCH proposal unless expanded and/or verified.Gateman1997 19:26, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge with district borough per WP:SCH unless expanded with more verifiable information. --Rob 21:33, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep as per Silensor Jcuk 21:46, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep or Merge into school district or town if article is both below three sentances and lacks any sort of illustration, boxed info-template or picture when AFD is closed. This school, like all others, is an important public institution and should be written about somewhere, even if it cannot sustain an article on it's own. Presently people do create school articles containing neutral, verifiable information and it is impossible to delete them, even though many have a desire to do so. Rather than striving for an impossible consensus to delete any given school article, I feel it is always preferable and takes much less energy to merge the text of the article into an article about a suitable habitation or administrative unit: a city, county or state, or a school district of local education authority of other school system, while taking care not to delete the information contained in the article. If the article is merged, the current location should be replaced by a redirect, and the edit history maintained for future use. This is the baseline consensus that I feel was reached at WP:SCH. Hipocrite - &laquo; Talk &raquo; 21:55, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge with school district if possible or town/suburb or not. I note that we don't currently have an article on the school district. Capitalistroadster 21:57, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I just checked, and apparently the relevant school district operates only two schools. After completing grade 8, the students have to go to a school operated by a different district, or a private one, in order to go to high school.  So, if merge is the result, I think Maywood, New Jersey will be the merge target (as the borders of the borough and the district match); and there's little point in making a district article for just two schools.  --Rob 04:35, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Nice article. Golfcam 03:28, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. A great start and clearly a future star article. -- JJay 04:25, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, notable. Christopher Parham (talk) 05:34, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge. ATM the claims of having "one of the best" sports teams and having several runs of being undefeated are unreferenced. Remove them if they don't get referenced in a reasonable amount of time. - Mgm|(talk) 09:42, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge as per the consensus established at WP:SCH. Please read and review this before blindly voting 'keep' or 'delete'.  Why is it that the 'deletionists' are mainly willing to follow the consensus, but some (not all) of the 'inclusionists' are not? Proto t c 13:55, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I see at least 3 out of 7 merge votes (based on WP:SCH) coming from "inclusionists" here (I'm counting Kappa as a merge, as he implies it would be ok with him). One of the merge votes even came from the inclusionist author of Schools/Arguments.  To me, that seems like openess to middle ground on both sides.  --Rob 21:55, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
 * A keep vote can be considered a merge vote. Be Bold and merge it after the AFD fails, like all other school AFDs do. Hipocrite - &laquo; Talk &raquo; 15:45, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
 * keep please this school is important to the community Yuckfoo 00:09, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and Cleanup . I am usually an inclusionist, yet I feel that WP:SCH is completely ludicrous; rather, this article should stay based on its own merits regarding notability. The "Controversy" section, I feel, gives this school enough notability to stay, especially since we have references and citations in the article. However, please remove the "Student Awards" section. It is completely non-notable. -Rebelguys2 09:15, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Hey, I added both the controversy and student awards sections. Why not highlight some of the amazing achievements of the little geniuses at Maywood. If we eliminate that, we give an unfair portrayal of Maywood as a haven for sexual predators and arsonists. -- JJay 09:22, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Your last sentence made me chuckle - you're totally right, that would look a little absurd. I've struck the cleanup tag. -Rebelguys2 10:53, 26 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Keep, as per Schools/Arguments. Carioca 23:31, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep per above. Pepsidrinka 04:12, 28 December 2005 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.