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University Hill Elementary School

This is an article on an elementary school (the editors'?} in Canada, with no reason given why this subject is noteworthy (other than to the children who go to the school and their parents). There are more elementary schools throughout the world than there are articles in Misplaced Pages. Unless a grade school is really noteworthy (ie. Columbine High School), it should not be the subject of a Wiki article. Askolnick 14:24, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

• Repaired AfD.--Andeh 14:31, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing. Askolnick 14:36, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

• Keep For reasons explained at Misplaced Pages:Schools/Arguments#Keep. This article is part of a complete series covering education in Vancouver, British Columbia. -→Buchanan-Hermit™/?! 16:56, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep The purpose of the WP:EiC project is to create complete entries for all Canadian schools which is an encyclopedic goal in itself. Deletion of indivdual articles harms this effort. Unless a claim can be made about the quality and validity of the article the article should stay. --Wakemp 17:17, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

• Delete I question the editorial wisdom of any project that opens up Misplaced Pages to articles on every grade school within any country. What about the New South Wales school system in Australia? Should we have a Wiki article on every grade school there? Or how about every grade school in China - a country that is increasingly objecting to Western cultural imperialism. I personally would like to create articles on P.S. 115 and P.S. 172 in Queens, New York. I fail to see the logic of creating Wiki articles for every grade school in any one nation. There are probably more than 100 million grade schools throughout the world. If "creating complete entries for all Canadian schools" is an "encylopedic goal in itself," why not create a separate Wiki encyclopedia on "Education in Canada" and head off the problem of nationalistic educators competing for the most Wiki articles? If I'm missing an important reason for creating a separate Misplaced Pages article on every school in Canada, please let me know.Askolnick 17:39, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

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* What about the New South Wales school system in Australia?, I personally would like to create articles on P.S. 115 and P.S. 172 in Queens, New York. - I would support any other project from Australia or New York that wanted to do the same thing.

* I fail to see the logic of creating Wiki articles for every grade school in any one nation. It continues to stun me what harm these types of AfDs are trying to protect Misplaced Pages from. I could also list reams of other types of articles that I have no interest but I would stop short of saying they shouldn't be allowed (Ball Parks, Xbox Games, Anime characters come to mind). I don't object to them and I would expect the same consideration.

* why not create a separate Wiki encyclopedia on "Education in Canada" and head off the problem of nationalistic educators competing for the most Wiki articles? If necessary I would put up my own wiki but I thought the reason wikipedia was here was to collect information not fragment it. Again the great concern seems to be what if everyone did this - that would be awesome, that would be wonderful. Misplaced Pages could engage educators and students all over the world that would create a generation of wiki contributors. That is why I do it and I contribute $$ to the wikimedia foundation instead running my own server. If someone is so worried about a few MB of disk space send me the bill would happily pay it. --Wakemp 18:15, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

Excuse me, but ball parks, Xbox Games, Anime characters and such are of interest to many people around the world. What I'm asking is who is interested about this elementary school - other than its students, their parents and teachers, and some of the people involved in the school system in Vancouver, Canada? If your goal is to put everything in the world inside of Misplaced Pages, no matter how unimportant, we already have something a bit like that. It's called the Internet. Askolnick 04:13, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

• Delete Being part of a wikiproject does not mean an article is encyclopedic. Like most articles on elementary schools, this seems more like a puffed-up directory listing. Agent 86 21:25, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per Buchanan-Hermit; the article is well written, verifiable, and part of a series. Yamaguchi先生 22:38, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, but this argument does not seem to make sense. An article can be well-written and verifiable and yet be about something utterly unnoteworthy. The most well-written and verifiable description of the puddle of rainwater on the street where I live (it's pouring out) would neither be noteworthy or Wikiworthy. As for being part of a series, stringing unnoteworthy articles together into a series will only provide you an unnoteworthy series. Please, will someone explain what is acutally noteworthy about the subject of this article. I'm dying of curiosity. Askolnick 04:13, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

• Keep, notable and useful article to local people. Misplaced Pages is not paper so we can have this kind of information. bbx 22:41, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
  • Query How is it notable? How is it useful? Being a "local people", I fail to understand either point. Agent 86 23:53, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, encylopedic topic and content, valuable part of the 'wiki encyclopedia on "Education in Canada' suggested above. I don't agree with splitting WP into separate General and Specialist volumes, but a proposal like that should be made from the top, not by an individual AFD. Kappa 07:05, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
• Comment This was previously a K12 school, so the nomination's assertion that it's "just an elementary school" is misleading. Kappa 07:06, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

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