Deletion of Franklin Elementary School (Westfield, New Jersey)

Comment: Article contains no assertion of notability.  If the subject is not notable, keeping it violates the  rule that ''Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOT)

Comment: Please see  and . Actually, both sides may need to look at them
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Civility (WP:CIVIL||WP:AGF)

Comment: WP:SCHOOL is a failed guideline, and the creation of a wikiproject does not confer notability to all its subjects. Furthermore, I move that any keep votes citing only a conspiracy for deletion be disregarded, as they violate . Just because one school article gets deleted doesn't mean they all will (and don't try to persuade me otherwise
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Assume good faith (WP:AGF)

Comment: Please read ssume good faith instead of assuming that the term "deletionist" is "derogatory".  Re-citing  in this manner may express why you think school articles are not inherently noteworthy, but it doesn't make it so. Those of us who hold that schools are inherently noteworthy would suggest (and often have suggested) that articles about schools are not indiscriminate information for precisely the same reason that articles about cities, towns, municipalities, etc. which in some cases have a smaller population than most schools nominated for AfD are not indiscriminate. That would be the belief that schools are as inherently noteworthy on the basis of their being schools, as such towns or municipaliies are inherently noteworthy on the basis of their being municipalities
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Attribution (WP:A||WP:NOT)

Comment: I did '''not''' say my basis for deletion was lack of notability. If that was the sole reason, I'd have kept my peace. My main basis was that it is not '''encyclopedic''' ("''this article, based on its own merits, has no encyclopedic value and must go''"). I agree, an article cannot be included or excluded on the basis of notability ''alone'', but it would be foolish to say that notabilty cannot be a criterion which is considered in the light of all other factors. To determine whether something is encyclopedic, we have to have some sort of rational criteria to make that determination. One of those means is . How does this article expand our knowledge and understanding of schools? How is this article not just an indiscriminate directory listing? All in all, argumentum ad infinitum has prevailed to make high schools "inherently" encyclopedic (or notable). Now that proposition is being extended to elementary schools (a slippery slope the nay-sayers said wouldn't happen). It strikes me as an odd double-standard that the local elementary school is now somehow worthy of an article, but the church next door to it or the little league playing in its field is not (not that they should be). I need to provide a reason why the article is not encyclopedic (which I believe I did, you're free to disagree). It is not for me to prove lack of notability; however, if someone wants to maintain that something is encyclopedic because, in part, it is notable, they'd better offer more convincing criteria than repetition
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOT)