Wikipedia talk:Dashboard/schoolwatch/Schools for deletion archive

message: This article survived a Vote for Deletion. The discussion can be found here. -Splash 02:36, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Vote for Deletion

message: Hi, Tony, I am genuinely puzzled.  I see that in one past debate you wrote
Schools are generally regarded as eminently noteworthy. I don't know about your country, but my country has lists of the institutions and sends inspectors round. We spend billions of pounds maintaining them, our kids spend most of their waking lives in them, and to put it briefly schools are a huge part of the society in my country--far more so than, say, the armed forces, and second only to the public health service. As to encyclopedic, that usually comes down to neutrality and verifiability. Because of the aforementioned inspections and the public appetite for information on schools, there is plenty of verifiable information about them. I shouldn't worry that anyone would mistake a school article for "meaningless garbage" and delete it. --Tony SidawayTalk 21:51, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: For what it's worth, I archived my suggestions on avoiding this kind of VfD at All the world's whatever.---CH  (talk) 01:40, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Can some explain the point of this "All the World's Schools Project"?

message: Fix it up or it's going to AfD. Denni ☯ 02:34, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Fix up your attitude or you're going to RFC.  This is not the place to make demands, if you want an article to be cleaned up, use  and try asking politely.  Silensor 02:47, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Lafayette High School (St. Joseph)]] 

message: Editors interested in locally important topics may wish to keep an eye on Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Malls. Kappa 02:59, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Malls for deletion 

message: Since this isn't a common event, I thought that users not paying as much close attention to the page might miss the events on their watchlists, I'm using this as an opportunity to point out that 3 recent school AfDs have been closed as deletions. JoshuaZ 06:12, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent schools AfDs have resulted in deletion 

message: Deletions do seem to be getting more and more common. However, a new trend may be emerging- redirecting articles to their school districts without touching the history. In any event, JoshuaZ 16:40, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: And once that trend increases in frequency, why bother going through AfD in the first place?  Just boldly do it, it saves all the fuss and bother that AfD debates usually become.  JYolkowski // talk 22:56, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think Joshua posted this here because of some comments on AFDs. I disagree with what his evaluation seems to conclude, but do NOT think that schools should be automatically speedy deleted, like JYolkowski does. --ForbiddenWord 20:49, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Please retract your incorrect assumption about my beliefs.  Had you read this thread you would have realized I was referring to redirecting the articles, not deleting them.  If you pay attention to the school debates you might notice that I'm one of the more inclusionist people there.  JYolkowski // talk 23:59, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

text: Yes, I concur with the above, and you don't get more deletionist wrt schools than me. But there are deep divisions and the proper place for an airing of views is AfD. Despite any shift, school debates remain mired in contentiousness, often resulting in no consensus, and that needs to be respected. Eusebeus 22:43, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I actually put the above there because I thought it would interest users who keep track of this page. I doubted people would be notice much in the way of trends just from a few edit summaries so it seemed helpful to summarize what was going on over all. JoshuaZ 23:00, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Further observations on recent trends