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 delete.--Wizardman 02:12, 24 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Henry Anderson Elementary School (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log)

non notable elementary school. I would be fine with merging some of this to the school district; I had done that, but an editor is insisting on retaining it as a separate article. Brianyoumans 08:54, 19 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete. No assertion that it's any different from any other elementary school in British Columbia. In fact, no assertion of anything much at all. BTLizard 09:19, 19 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Apperently in UK; knows nothing about Canadian schools. Eclecticology 21:53, 19 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nom and above, nothing to tell it apart from other elementary schools Hut 8.5 17:52, 19 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • In UK; knows nothing about Canadian schools. Eclecticology 21:53, 19 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep These articles are important for parents choosing schools for their children. Eclecticology 21:53, 19 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• strong delete, and somebody needs to weed out the 200+ cruft articles in Category:Elementary schools in British Columbia. And Eclecticology, it won't do you any good to attack those of us voting to delete, this isn't solely your Wikipedia, we know what's notable and what is filler without having to live in Canada. Chris 22:36, 19 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • There are people from certain countries who like to believe they know what's good for everybody else but themselves. Eclecticology 22:56, 19 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That is both irrelevant, and disingenuous. Please assume good faith. Charlie 23:03, 19 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete. Ok, I'll get this out of the way out front: I am in America, and therefore "know nothing about Canadian Schools". But, ad hominem arguments aside, this article does not assert notability, or provide sources that confer it. Charlie 22:59, 19 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Strong Keep By deleting this, you will be saying that all other elementary school articles in this current format (just a sentence) should be deleted. This is a weed-out campaign. To Charlie, the four external links are sources that confer it. Please check them yourself. --Canadianshoper 23:54, 19 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I am not making the argument that all other elementary school articles in this format should be deleted. The four external links (the first one is broken, by the way) are government documents containing statistics about the school. The BC government likely has similar documents for every elementary school there. Why does government recognition of the existence of a public school confer notability ? Charlie 00:02, 20 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks about the broken link. That dseems to apply to all schools for now. The Ministry seems to be in the middle rearranging its site. Eclecticology 07:20, 20 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

comment I on the other hand am absolutely making the argument that any single-sentence articles on elementary schools should be weeded out as non-notable. Most high schools are notable in some way. Below that, very few are, maybe a dozen per province or state, certainly not over 200 in BC. Chris 04:50, 20 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete, does not appear to be particularly notable as far as Canadian elementary schools go. No notability asserted, and none is indicated in linked documents. Lankiveil 01:49, 20 May 2007 (UTC).[reply]
• Merge. I don't see a compelling reason to delete when there are school district articles to merge to. Fair disclosure: I am not an uninvolved editor. I merged some of these articles previously during random article cleanup, and raised the issue at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Education in Canada‎, volunteering to perform the mass merging myself (and would be still). Project editors cited Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/University Hill Elementary School as justification for the articles' preservation. Perhaps this AFD can provide some universal guidance? Serpent's Choice 02:23, 20 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • To tell the truth, I see no problem with keeping some info - the name of the school, a link to the school website, the town it is located in, etc. - on the school district site, and keeping the school article as a redirect. I only send these articles to AFD because there is no "AFM" process - a merger tag on such an obscure article would garner no discussion, just opposition from the editor who de-merged the article. At AFD the article at least gets some proper discussion. Brianyoumans 08:20, 20 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletions. -- Butseriouslyfolks 05:26, 21 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge/Redirect to School District 38 Richmond. Article has not progressed beyond a stub / directory entry in almost a year. I support the WP:EiC project and its goals, but there is no meaningful content in this article. Alansohn 05:40, 21 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete nn elementary school. Eusebeus 21:19, 23 May 2007 (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.