Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Westbrook School

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The result of the debate was no consensus. About 60% for delete. Not good enough I'm afraid. Woohookitty 10:50, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

Westbrook School

Here we have a Yellow Pages entry for an elementary school in Canada. Pilatus 16:46, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

• • A Yellow Pages entry would at least give the telephone number. This doesn't even do that. Dpbsmith (talk) 20:38, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Another small but valuable step towards complete coverage of the world's schools. CalJW 17:08, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

But why? What's the point? CalJW and friends, I see you believe strongly in creating an article for every school in the world, so you must have some rationale. But apparently this is a long-running debate, and I think you guys should see by now that you need to have a header for all these articles pointing puzzled readers like me to a project page where you explain the rationale for this "all the worlds schools" project, or whatever you call it.---CH (talk) 23:28, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. Iff it is kept, the article needs to be moved to Westbrook School, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada because a quick Google search shows that there are a half-dozen Westbrook Schools around the world just on the first Google search page. BlankVerse ∅ 17:17, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete Yet another completely nn school. Dottore So 17:35, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete or merge to the town. Does not warrant own article. --TimPope 17:37, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, this is a non-notable elementary school stub. Little or no info available on it. Few Google hits for this particular Westbrook School. Also per Schools for Deletion. Gateman1997 17:59, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, elementary schools not inherently notable. Sdedeo 18:00, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and move to Westbrook School, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Silensor 18:20, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. It's a primary school. By definition not notable and never will be. Dunc|☺ 18:23, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Completely worthless. Stub, and not notable. Cmadler 18:34, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Subsubsubsubstub. Gamaliel 20:10, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. BEEFSTEW score 1 of a possible 10. Nothing notable about the school is mentioned. Folks, it's irresponsible to drop things like this into Wikipedia. If the point is not to stir up a hornet's nest and create factionalism, then spend an hour and work up a good stub BEFORE creating the article. If you actually can't find anything notable, consider finding a school that is notable to write about instead. Dpbsmith (talk) 20:37, 8 September 2005 (UTC) Withdrawing vote. Tony Sidaway's improvements have rendered the article harmless. I consider the list of awards strained, and saying that it was designed by an architect who had won an award for some other building, is reaching. Nice local color touches. Dpbsmith (talk) 12:53, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete Non-notable. Amren ^(talk) 20:56, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Very little conceivable potential for an encyclopedic article. Fernando Rizo T/C 21:06, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, nothing here worth keeping. I note that Edmonton Public Schools covers 199 schools, it would seem rather pointless to have a sub stub article on all of them - particularly since I doubt anyone would be keeping the names of the headteachers up to date. At this level of strictly local importance, a mention in a list or table on another article would be sufficient. Average Earthman 21:29, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, as above.—encephalonέγκέφαλος  22:25:45, 2005-09-08 (UTC). NB. Just restoring sig altered by recent discussant; also confirm vote after re-reading latest version. Best—encephalonέγκέφαλος  14:22:25, 2005-09-12 (UTC)
• Delete or merge. This elementary school is not notable. Sliggy 22:46, September 8, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per Average Earthman. -feydey 23:10, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. If after more than a month it is still a 15-word article, it doesn't belong here. Owen× ☎ 23:16, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, notable school. Kappa 00:13, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and expand. I added a brief history of the school and some of their more impressive achievements in provincial and national academic competitions. --Tony Sidaway^Talk 00:14, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
• delete. --File:Ottawa flag.png Spinboy 00:39, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. All schools are notable enough for a truly great encyclopaedia. —RaD Man (talk) 02:08, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Not notable. Also, less than 1000 schools normally compete in the "Pythagoras Contest", thus being local winner (even several times) does not make one notable. Barring that, Merge. Please see this discussion of the value of merging.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Aaron Brenneman (talk • contribs) 02:24, 9 September 2005
  • If you go to the competition site you'll see that, out of 1003 Canadian schools participating in 2005, Westbrook tied for joint first. In 1997 they were outright winners in that competition. There are enough individual tops to suggest strongly that the school has some of the brightest pupils, in mathematics, in Canada. --Tony Sidaway^Talk 14:29, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Spectacular list of trivial awards, though. --Carnildo 03:26, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete for reasons already listed. --Idont Havaname 14:22, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete no normal encyclopedia has articles on elementary schools, not notable G Clark 00:54, 10 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete this stub for a non-notable elementary school. Jonathunder 02:51, 2005 September 10 (UTC)
• Delete: pointless. CDThieme 03:01, 10 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, relevant to education in Edmonton, Alberta --Vsion 04:46, 10 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, good article. JYolkowski // talk 13:44, 10 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, yet another school.--Nicodemus75 21:05, 11 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Nicodemus, please see Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not#Wikipedia_is_not_an_indiscriminate_collection_of_information this policy to see why you have something to explain if you want to create an individual article on every single school in the entire world, which apparently you do.---CH (talk) 23:25, 11 September 2005 (UTC)
  • Yawn Go ride a bicycle.--Nicodemus75 13:55, 12 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Neutrality^talk 23:28, September 11, 2005 (UTC)
• keep please this is almost 3kb of text which is alot more than a phone book listing and it tells alot about the school and is neutral and verifiable so why should we erase this that does nto make sense Yuckfoo 04:06, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

Yuckfoo, just because something is verifiable does not make it suitable for an encyclopedia. There has to be something more. WMMartin 21:16, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

• Keep schools in Wikipedia. Christopher Parham (talk) 04:17, 2005 September 12 (UTC)
• Keep this fine school stub article. Unfocused 02:44, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete of no interest outside Edmonton --redstucco 10:36, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete it sucks.  Grue  14:22, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep school stub. Give it some time to grow. Mindmatrix 19:24, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Not notable. WMMartin 21:16, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. All verifiable permanent public institutions are notable by definition. As the first attempt at creating an encyclopedia that is actually properly encyclopedic, Wikipedia can and should have articles on every school in the world. --Centauri 03:10, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Sigh... I thought it was decided that schools would be kept. Ryan Norton ^{T | @ | C} 07:25, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

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