Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/St. Andrew's School (Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire)


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The result was delete. No prejudice against recreation as a redirect if someone believes that it could reasonably refer to either the school in Bedford or in Cambridge. Jenks24 (talk) 03:42, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

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Canoot find evidence this school even exits. Not notable Bleaney (talk) 01:18, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
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 * Delete Can't find evidence of existence either. A difficulty is that the location is so vague, and unfortunately the user who started the article hasn't been active in the six years since starting the article. There are some schools named St Andrews listed here but I don't think it's on there (perhaps someone else could check because my knowledge of Hunts. geography is minimal). It's not listed here or here. —A bit iffy (talk) 04:17, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Comment. I can't find the school at http://www.education.gov.uk/edubase/search.xhtml?page= or http://www.192.com/ The first version of the article gave the location only as Cambridgeshire. I found a http://www.standrewscambridge.co.uk/ St. Andrew's College Cambridge, but it sounds like an entirely different school. Eastmain (talk • contribs)  04:40, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
 * The other contributions of included a blatant hoax at keychainland and an uninformative "it sucks!" at mousebreaker. Uncle G (talk) 08:15, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
 * There is already an article for St Andrew's School (Bedford) which this article used to have an external link for. There is also a St Andrew's College in Cambridge, but this is a private sixth form college. Neither of these are (or ever have been) in Huntingdonshire. Bleaney (talk) 11:15, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete Hoax. As so often, just enough unsourced information to confuse, so vague as to make it difficult to prove the negative. Two things do for it. One is that it is not possible to trace it through the Department for Education and independent schools are legally required to register. The geographically closest independent school matches are a St Andrew's College in Cambridge and St Andrew's School in Bedford and this is neither of those. The other is the claim that it is a 'church school'. It is not listed by the Diocese of Ely, for the Church of England, nor is it the Roman Catholic School of that name and there is no Methodist school by that name. Mistakes happen and a school might fail to appear on a database search for some reason, but not on all databases independent of each other. --AJHingston (talk) 11:46, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete unless some one can provide a precise location, and an external website for the school. I would expect a "church school" to be Church of England.  Such schools are (I think) invariably volumtary aided or voluntary controlled; in either case it would not be "private".  If not a WP:HOAX, it is either misnamed or defunct.  In eithger case it would be better to start again.  Peterkingiron (talk) 16:31, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Comment English counties were re-organised in 1974. Huntingdonshire used to be a county in its own right but in the re-organisation it was subsumed into Cambridgeshire. Dahliarose (talk) 22:31, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete no evidence of notability or even existence.--Charles (talk) 08:24, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete Possibly referring to St Andrews, Bedford, but since that was formed in 1896, is a good few miles away in the next town, probably not.  WormTT   &middot; &#32;(talk) 12:51, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
 * The more I think about this, the more I agree with AJHingston that it looks like a hoax, perhaps crafted to create long discussions such as this. It's a pity that a long-since-departed editor removed a Prod notice a few years ago without any explanation.—A bit iffy (talk) 18:10, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
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