Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Forest Park 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 DELETE. Mo0[talk] 17:16, 13 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Forest Park School

Non-notable elementary school that is now defunct. Metros232 02:29, 7 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

• Strong Delete. I believe schools are not inherently notable, moreso a school that no longer exists and has no particular claim to fame. Fluit 02:42, 7 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Strong Delete. I'm on board with Fluit regarding schools, but this one isn't even debatable. --cholmes75 (chit chat) 03:14, 7 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nom. Yanksox 03:18, 7 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Strong Delete (no doubt about it) Not only is this an elementary school, but it no longer exists! OTAKU 04:09, 7 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Strong Delete nn + defunct = never any chance of becoming Wikiworthy. SM247 05:34, 7 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Strong Delete, defunct school and is non-notable. --Terence Ong 05:52, 7 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Strong delete per above. --Coredesat 09:25, 7 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. It is well established that schools are notable. Just because it's now closed it doesn't cease to be notable, or are you all in favour of deleting indivudual's entries once they die? Markb 10:01, 7 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete not notable Ydam 11:11, 7 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Neutral. I don't think that deleting a school because it's defunct makes any more sense than deleting a biography because the subject is dead. Nonetheless, I cannot bring myself to vote keep on a one-liner article which is so devoid of content. Sjakkalle (Check!) 11:38, 7 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete, being defunct doesn't rule it out of an article. Having been a school with absolutely no notablity does. - Motor (talk) 11:49, 7 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete, actually, the myth that "it is well established that schools are notable" is just as pervasive as stories about Bigfoot... and just as unfounded in the case of elementary and primary schools. Defunct school + no evidence of of any lasting, meaningful, historical or societal impact... I say this is a clear delete.--Isotope23 13:17, 7 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete nothing is inherently notable. --Strothra 15:58, 7 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Not even independent states? Which articles about independent states would you vote to delete?
• Delete, it's only "established" that schools are notable within the minds of a small (but not small enough) group of extremist inclusionists. Each article should be considered on its own merits, not block-voted according to some ideological obsession, and this substub simply does not have any merits to justify its inclusion. — Haeleth Talk 17:21, 7 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Are you sure that's as civil as the editors you're describing would like it to be? Thanks, --William Pietri 21:13, 7 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • School deletionists are very often uncivil. That is one of the reasons why they lost out so totally on high schools: people who are sneered at and demeaned often fight back. One of the objectionable traits shared by many deletionists is that no matter how many times they lose, and the number of different users who vote against them, they declare their opponents to be a small minority. (While they are part of a purported majority, the existence of which we have are expected to take on faith). CalJW 21:33, 8 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Strong Delete per above. It doesn't even assert notability...—EdGl 21:09, 7 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep Verifiable school. Closure is irrelevant: Wikipedia is not an old newspaper. CalJW 21:32, 8 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep as per CalJW with regards to verifiability and per Wikipedia:Schools/Arguments#Keep. Silensor 17:14, 13 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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.