Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/River Oaks Elementary School (Prince William County)

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was keep since there is no consensus. Sjakkalle (Check!)  11:13, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

River Oaks Elementary School (Prince William County)
Unnotable primary school. Dunc|&#9786; 13:54, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Well written, excellent stub. If not kept, merge to Prince William County Public Schools. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 14:45, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Let me reiterate, Tony, simply because an article is well written, concise, or informative doesn't alter the fact that it is being written about something with no encyclopaedic value. Jasonglchu 15:07, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Okay. I see somewhat where you're coming from, after reading Schools. I still feel as though this article (and the others currently up for deletion) fails to meet the established criteria in that article, specifically that further NPOV information cannot be gathered. Jasonglchu 15:27, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: in that case it can be merged to the school district, Prince William County Public Schools. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 16:44, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: Fair enough. I could see how that would be both encyclopaedic and useful. Jasonglchu 16:46, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep or merge with local school district article. &mdash; RJH 17:29, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete non notable. NeoJustin 17:38, June 8, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep -- Longhair | Talk 17:40, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete: It's a school. Hey, that's wonderful, but we don't provide listings and indexes of all of any thing in the world, unless the things in their particulars are worthy of discussion, and especially not as separate articles.  There is no point in "every church" or "every restaurant" or "every mall" or "every factory," and not in "every school," either.  If people want us to replace the county records office, the Yellow Pages, and the national records, then they're not waning us to remain an encyclopedia. Geogre 17:49, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. Do I detect a glimmer of a merge vote there? On the idea that we're not Yellow Pages or whatnot, indeed we're not. I think we can do a much better job, presenting encyclopedic and neutral information rather than commercial information. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 17:56, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep or merge. Christopher Parham (talk) 18:31, 2005 Jun 8 (UTC)
 * Merge with the appropriate geographical article, to keep the school inclusionists happy. --Carnildo 18:37, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Ketsuban (is 1337) 19:56, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Generic stub. Gamaliel 20:25, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Considering the number of schools in its district, it's already getting too large for each to have a similar sized brief there... and this will be expanded if left as a stub. Schools belong in the encyclopedia.  Un focused 20:45, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, article fails to establish notability. RickK 22:13, Jun 8, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Verifiable and NPOV. Excellent start of the article. I agree with WP:SCH. Double Blue  (Talk) 22:51, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * keep because it is verifiable and neutral no need to erase this Yuckfoo 23:26, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep There is no reason not to have an article on every school. CalJW 05:21, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge into Prince William County Public Schools and delete - Skysmith 08:15, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, don't see the necessity of applying notability to schools. Kappa 21:44, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge into Prince William County Public Schools and delete - and why is everybody repeating themselves once more... :( Radiant_ &gt;|&lt; 10:14, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, NN Proto 11:14, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Just keep all the NPOV verifiable schoolcruft. -- Barfooz  (talk)  03:52, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Non-notability not established by nominator.  &mdash;RaD Man (talk) 17:28, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep notable -CunningLinguist 16:31, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Its a shame really.  Wikipedia would be well on its way to being a good encyclopedia if not for trivia like this. Indrian 03:55, Jun 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes I can see how this article makes it harder for random page users to find slightly more important ones, but eventually they'll figure out how to use wikilinks or the search box. Kappa 21:06, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages.  Please do not edit this page .