Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Priestman Street Elementary 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 was delete and redirect. Unanimity amongst the commentators that this school fails our notability standards as do most (but not all) elementary schools. Normal practice is to redirect such elementary schools to the school district and I see no convincing reason in the discussion not to do so in this case, particularly as a redirect meets, in my view, WP:R. As DGG states, elementary schools get little vandalism and I have added this one to the '000s on my watchlist in case it does! The only mergeable fact is the grades and I have added that from the primary source so there is no need to maintain the article history. TerriersFan (talk) 03:15, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

Priestman Street Elementary School

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 * Delete. Non-notable per convention. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 22:40, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete - no apparent notability. The alumni aren't notable either. The Fredericton article doesn't even bother to list all the elementary schools! Sionk (talk) 00:32, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 02:23, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 02:23, 12 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Speedy redirect Fredericton,_New_Brunswick might be a good target. OSbornarfcontribs. 02:33, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
 * No point. There is nothing in the target article about it. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 03:28, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
 * New Brunswick School District 18 is a better target. The usual outcome for this type of school is to redirect to the relevant school board or community. OSbornarfcontribs. 00:51, 13 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete - Appears non-notable to me although schools seem to require very little notability to "pass the grade". Stormbay (talk) 03:33, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
 * High schools articles may be allowed with very little apparent notability but elementary schools are targets for deletion. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 04:21, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Redirect to New Brunswick School District 18. When a non-notable school is found, the default is to redirect the article to that of the relevant School Board - in this case, #18 for Fredericton.   PK  T (alk)  21:34, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Why not simply delete it? A search will find the target article that you suggest. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 23:36, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
 * I would have no objection to that, but there are a couple of hundred "articles" about Canadian elementary schools that are redirected to their boards. Putting a redirect in place is an easier course of action than a deletion.   PK  T (alk)  15:50, 15 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Why is it easier? I think unnecessary redirects can waste editors time. They have to maintained forever (or at least until we become extinct!). -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 20:06, 15 April 2012 (UTC)
 * What sort of maintenance needs to be done on redirects? Redirects are cheap. OSbornarfcontribs. 20:41, 15 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Mainly protection from vandalism. See also User:Alan Liefting/Redirects are costly. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 21:10, 15 April 2012 (UTC)
 * I've yet to see such a problem. Redirects can be set up like that.  I've probably set up well over 100 of them, very easily.  Conversely, I can't delete anything.  I can only PROD or AfD.   PK  T (alk)  01:48, 16 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Merge The default is to merge the content into a new education section in the locality or into a region if the primary school is nonnotable. It does not advance the work of wikipedia to remove good, otherwise policy compliant information. &tilde;danjel [ talk &#124; contribs ] 05:42, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm curious, do you mean merge to New Brunswick School District 18, in which case it is already listed there? Generally the article is not policy compliant (or good) because the list of alumni, which makes the bulk of the stub, are all non-notable. Sionk (talk) 12:34, 14 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Redirect to the district, merging any usable content. Even the nom admits these articles are usually redirected. On the basis of the essay he quotes, he is reluctant to redirect because someone might vandalize, but there actually isn't much vandalism of elementary school articles. The only way to truly prevent vandalism at Wikipedia is to have a closed wiki.  DGG ( talk ) 15:05, 16 April 2012 (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.