Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/St. James Middle 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 keep. Mailer Diablo 02:53, 6 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Non-notable school. --Bigtop 04:28, 31 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

• Another poke at the hornet's nest. Delete. Opabinia regalis 04:36, 31 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Thank you for wasting our time "poking" us. Kappa 14:46, 31 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    • Comment These two above comments add nothing to the potential discussion and only serve to inflame both sides. Please refrain from incivility and keep discussion on topic, please. --ForbiddenWord 16:32, 31 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete as wikipedia is not a directory of schools. -- Koffieyahoo 05:24, 31 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete A one paragraph description of a school. School is mentioned in Horry County Schools so does not appear to need its own article. Catchpole 07:11, 31 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

• So, why not merge anything that needs to be merged, then redirect? fuddlemark (befuddle me!) 10:35, 31 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep All schools are notable and merging info into lists clutters them up. Piccadilly 14:35, 31 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep verifiable and established school and thus an important part of education in Horry County. It would be wrong to betray those wikipedia users who wish to learn about it. Kappa 14:46, 31 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge with Horry County Schools. This is a one-paragraph description that can be included in the district page for compactness. — RJH (talk) 15:08, 31 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep this article, ALL schools are notable and should have articles. --ForbiddenWord 16:32, 31 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep, notable school. Christopher Parham (talk) 17:57, 31 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment How? If there is notability, please insert it into the article. However, the only info given in the article is the school's location, mascot, and year of foundation, and this does not make something notable. -- Kicking222 18:10, 31 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    • All schools are notable enough to be included in Wikipedia. Christopher Parham (talk) 18:41, 31 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
      • Comment That doesn't answer the question. --Coredesat talk. ^_^ 19:41, 31 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete as non-notable. A merge is not required, but a redirect could be put in the article's place. -- Kicking222 18:10, 31 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete as non-notable. Possibly redirect to the school district's article. WP:SCHOOLS is a failed guideline, and there is no policy or guideline stating that all schools are notable. Don't cite arguments as if they were policy. --Coredesat talk. ^_^ 19:41, 31 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete failing any notability. — pd_THOR ^{| =/\=} | 19:50, 31 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - it's a Wikipedia rule that you can't delete schools. GrapePie 20:09, 31 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment No it's not.
• Delete, "notable school" is a contradiction in terms. User:Angr 20:22, 31 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Speedy Delete No content whatsoever. Recreate as an article when encyclopedic, verifiable, notable content is found. Hipocrite - «Talk» 20:23, 31 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep this perfectly usable stub. It can be easily expanded by future editors to a more robust article about this school.--Nicodemus75 20:50, 31 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - I crossed out my vote above. Hipocrite said I was copying someone else's vote. So I'll just say I that I believe that all schools are notable enough to merit a space on Wikipedia. I hope my reason is not copying someone else. GrapePie 21:35, 31 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Note to closing Admin GrapePie is a known sock of a previously problematic user see [1] for discussion. JoshuaZ 00:47, 1 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep. It's an obvious stub that was just created a couple weeks ago. Schools are worthwhile subjects for articles, though I agree that this one is currently minimal. I say keep, and give it some time to breathe, see if it gets expanded after the school year starts. --Elonka 21:55, 31 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• keep please gives new articles a chance schools are notable Yuckfoo 23:41, 31 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nom. Dpbsmith (talk) 00:14, 1 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete as a not notable middle school with no substantial entry. If anyone has any material to demonstrate notability or to expand the article then they can recreate it. JoshuaZ 00:47, 1 August 2006 (UTC) Changing to Neutral per new info. Blue Ribbon Schools are still pretty common and I have no idea if any of the state awards are at all signficant. JoshuaZ 01:27, 1 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. It's a middle school, period/full stop. If it's significant for some reason, put it in, but otherwise, no, it's not "notable" -- calling all schools "notable" renders the word into something utterly meaningless -- unless your notion of "notable" means "listed in the telephone directory". --Calton | Talk 01:16, 1 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. Verifiability over notability, though this school seems to be both. --Myles Long 01:31, 1 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. Blue Ribbon schools are notable. Full stop. Silensor 01:34, 1 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Comment I have expanded the article, added references, and a list of awards that the school has won, including the National Blue Ribbon School award. --Elonka 01:21, 1 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep per silensor -- Librarianofages 02:52, 1 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep due to article expansion and being the recipient of multiple educational awards. Yamaguchi先生 09:13, 1 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep, since there's now an assertion of verifiable notability. --Coredesat talk. ^_^ 11:43, 1 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep, the war's over. Gazpacho 19:07, 1 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment Please be civil and assume good faith. --Coredesat talk. ^_^ 03:04, 2 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Weak keep the article now contains a weak assertion of notability. The way to avoid AFD discussions on schools is to make sure every school article contains an assertion of notability as soon as possible. (Being a school is not an assertion of notability; notability is established in comparison to other things of the same type, so in comparison to other schools.) It might help if someone technically skilled wrote a tool to parse the new pages log for articles with "School" (and other relevant search terms) in the title and dumped them on a to do list for the school project. GRBerry 22:32, 1 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep and allow for organic growth, a fair assertion of notability is made. Bahn Mi 01:26, 2 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - school has been recognized by the Blue Ribbon Schools Program and makes other specific claims of notability. The article can only improve beyond this start. Alansohn 22:03, 2 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep per WP:DP. --Usgnus 01:17, 3 August 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.