Wikipedia:VfD decisions not backed by current policies

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This is a list of pages where a significant majority of the voters on Votes for Deletion supported deleting an article, but when this decision contravened standing policies. Pages listing valid reasons for deletion include Deletion policy, What Wikipedia is not, and Verifiability. For now these articles have been kept, merged, or redirected and a note has been placed on their talk page explaining that they may be deleted upon a change in Wikipedia policies.

Schools
Current policy: Deletion policy makes no reference whatsoever to schools either way. Wikipedia talk:Deletion policy/schools only formed consensus regarding schools for those under age five and those automatically entered by a bot, consensus being 'delete'. Some guidelines for inclusion have been enunciated by User:Dpbsmith. See also: Importance, Template:School.
 * St Edwards School (VfD votes)
 * St Andrew's High School, Kirkcaldy, Scotland (VfD votes)
 * St Stephen's School Bath (VfD votes)
 * Huntington School York (VfD votes)

Off-campus buildings
The following are off-campus student-run houses that are not affiliated with the university they are near.

Current policy: Nothing specific. Jimbo once got annoyed at such deletions. Some such submissions could fall under the category of vanity articles. Some could have fallen below the standard of Importance, if that had been adopted.
 * Finlandia co-op (VfD votes)
 * Watermyn (VfD votes)

Books
Current policy: Nothing specific. Works by a vanity press or included in Wikipedia by their own author are taken to be vanity articles and/or advertising.
 * Meaning and Knowledge (VfD votes)
 * WP:FICT is relevant semi-policy, and regularly cited on VfD

Musical bands
Current policy: Nothing specific. Bands that have never released a record or receive few Google hits are routinely deleted as vanity articles and unverifiable. See also Vanity page and Verifiability
 * WikiProject_Music/Notability_and_Music_Guidelines are relevant semi-policy, and cited regularly for these articles