Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/IHS (schools)

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. -- RoySmith (talk) 12:54, 10 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

IHS (schools)[edit]

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Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. Also, although notability standards for lists are notoriously vague, the linked policy notes that list notability is determined by the group. There is just no way this subject, schools with initials IHS, is a notable subject or anything more than unencyclopedic trivia. North of Eden (talk) 18:32, 2 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

[Inserted after later entries]: this discussion applies equally to all articles of the form <initials> (schools) and <initials> (high schools). Pol098 (talk) 13:16, 3 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Merge to IHS (disambiguation page) where appropriate; no need for a separate page, and most of the entries do not have the initialism indicated as an alternative for the name. --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 19:15, 2 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete [entry revised]; can't merge as don't meet guidelines for abbreviations disambiguation page. Most of the entries in IHS (schools) don't meet WP:DABABBREV and so don't qualify for IHS; in fact they were in IHS, but I moved out those that didn't very obviously support DABABBREV (I didn't check all entries in detail, those that conform can be copied back). I'd comment that there have long been a number of articles XYZ (school) and XYZ (high school); I also created some new ones, imitating others that already existed. I'm quite happy to delete the huge and unnecessary schools articles, so long as huge lists of entries not meeting DABABBREV clutter up initials disambiguation pages, where they don't belong. I raised the question in Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)#Initials of schools in disambiguation pages (e.g. BHS), with no dissent. Pol098 (talk) 20:01, 2 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Pol098: Delete or keep? So your position is that you don't care so long as it's not merged? —Мандичка^YO 😜 21:11, 2 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I've revised my stated opinion to "delete", from "delete or keep". I consider this, and similar lists of schools, to be pointless. I thought there would be objections to a straightforward delete (added: I've had a great deal of flak for deleting inappropriate "disambiguation" initials entries); "keep" was a less worse option than merging it back into IHS. There are a lot of articles like this, and a lot of "<l>HS" initials disambiguation pages choked with pointless lists of schools—I'm happy to delete the lot. Pol098 (talk) 21:32, 2 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I did state in my !vote "as appropriate" because I did not check everything to see if there were any which were appropriate. --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 01:38, 3 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - this seems quite useless and also invites the creation of similar unnecessary pages. Next will be KHS schools, EHS schools, etc. —Мандичка^YO 😜 21:07, 2 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Er, I've already done some of these, sorry. My motive was to clean up the initials disambiguation pages; I was under the impression that a suggestion to delete all these schools would raise a lot of protest, so I moved out rather than delete. I'm quite happy for all the "<l>HS (schools)" and <l>HS (high schools)" pages to be deleted. Obviously I'm not WP:Bold enough. Pol098 (talk) 21:32, 2 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 23:03, 2 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 23:03, 2 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. Ljgua124 (talk) 04:51, 10 August 2015 (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.