Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Franklin Elementary School (Westfield, New Jersey)
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
— User:Agent, 00:22, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:NOT (Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not)