Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Penndale Middle School
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- 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 redirect to North Penn School District. as per normal practice with these. Content is under the re-direct for whomever would like to handle the merge. StarM 03:27, 4 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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I know most schools are notable, but this one lacks any sources whatsoever. The building once was the high school, but it's now the middle school. The only claim to any notability is the claim of being the largest middle school of the three in the district. Delete or merge. Undead Warrior (talk) 16:05, 30 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Merge to the school district (or create it/move if there is not one). Normally high schools are kept, middle schools are not unless there is another reason to keep.--Paul McDonald (talk) 17:39, 30 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Merge/redirect to North Penn School District with some reluctance because of the significant history of the school building. However, the sources available don't seem to stand up a separate article. TerriersFan (talk) 17:42, 30 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. —TerriersFan (talk) 17:52, 30 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep. All enduring public institutions - such as railway stations and schools - are notable. Meets WP:V and WP:NOTE. --Gene_poole (talk) 22:43, 30 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Wrong. Everything, no matter what it is, must pass WP:RS and WP:N. This doesn't. Consensus in AfD shows that most middle school articles are either deleted or merged. Undead Warrior (talk) 00:36, 31 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Correction. Consensus in AfD shows that most middle school articles are merged, which is a version of keep since the content continues to exist (if you can find any, with substantive content, that was deleted let me know and I'll merge the content}. Several types of page are kept by AfD consensus even if they don't meet WP:N, which is a guideline to which exceptions can be made. Examples are numbered highways, inhabited settlements, species of fauna and flora, railway stations, airports, super-regional malls etc. If in doubt, by all means nominate an unsourced page in one of these categories (and there are many). TerriersFan (talk) 01:05, 31 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Just as a footnote, most sources here are behind paywalls to which I have no access hence my merge !vote. However, if I had access to those sources I see no reason why the article doesn't meet WP:N and I'm sure I could generate a sufficiently sourced page. TerriersFan (talk) 01:17, 31 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Correction. Consensus in AfD shows that most middle school articles are merged, which is a version of keep since the content continues to exist (if you can find any, with substantive content, that was deleted let me know and I'll merge the content}. Several types of page are kept by AfD consensus even if they don't meet WP:N, which is a guideline to which exceptions can be made. Examples are numbered highways, inhabited settlements, species of fauna and flora, railway stations, airports, super-regional malls etc. If in doubt, by all means nominate an unsourced page in one of these categories (and there are many). TerriersFan (talk) 01:05, 31 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Wrong. Everything, no matter what it is, must pass WP:RS and WP:N. This doesn't. Consensus in AfD shows that most middle school articles are either deleted or merged. Undead Warrior (talk) 00:36, 31 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Redirect or merge/redirect to North Penn SD. Not notable. CRGreathouse (t | c) 12:53, 31 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep or, at worst, merge to North Penn School District. GoogleNews suggests there are a significant number of sources for a WP:V, WP:NPOV, WP:NOR article, which are the content policies. DoubleBlue (Talk) 15:04, 31 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Merge/redirect to North Penn School District . Lacks sources to justify own article. Michellecrisp (talk) 13:03, 1 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete it. I don't see what merging would do because it would be unbalanced with a list of schools and an article on one school. Tavix (talk) 22:23, 1 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment - it would start to develop the article; in due course all schools will get a summary. TerriersFan (talk) 22:29, 1 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Merge per comments above and a now long standing consensus. Vegaswikian (talk) 03:11, 4 November 2008 (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.