Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of elementary schools in California

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. Sr 13 01:19, 5 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

List of elementary schools in California

Elementary schools are not inherently notable, so neither should a list of them be Corpx 05:25, 30 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete brutally fails WP:LIST, as this one is not informative, does not aid navigation and does not aid in development. It is also safe to say that it is unmanageable, and it lacks context. For instance, where is "Palms" and why do I care? Resolute 05:37, 30 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per above Rackabello 06:03, 30 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. Btw Palms is an LA district. Who said AfD wasn't educational. --Breno ^talk 06:18, 30 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: Corpx, if you don't think elementary schools are inherently non-notable, you might want to visit Category:Elementary and primary schools. Notability is relative/subjective, Resolute. The context is right in the article name: it's a "list of elementary schools in California" (and one district on the list even has its own page). Until each school gets its own entry (and appropriately categorized), this list suffices as a compilation of California elementary schools (in a few districts anyway). ∞Σɛ_Þ² ^(τ|c) 07:23, 30 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If an elementary school is notable, then so is the gas station at the corner over here. I'm already well on my way to nominating most of the items on in that category! Each elementary school in the nation does NOT deserve its own entry. They have no claim to notability other than that they're a school. Corpx 07:48, 30 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No. Again, notability is relative. An elementary school may be notable for many reasons: its name, news reports (i.e. Columbine High School comes to mind, but that's a high school, of course), # of "famous" (another relative term) people who attended it or worked at it, test scores, etc. Again, check the categories to see just how many elementary/primary schools there are on Wikipedia (204 in California alone--I don't know of a way to get compiled totals from every category and its subcategories). Just because you don't think something (an elementary school or otherwise) is notable, doesn't mean someone else won't. ∞Σɛ_Þ² ^(τ|c) 08:12, 30 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I think that highschools are inherently notable due to their status, but HS alumni dont really get famous because of what they did in elementary schools. Most alumns identify to their college and or high schools. Here is one of my nominations for AFD about a bunch of elementary schools. I've started my deletion requests from elementary schools in Texas and will work my way up to California. Back to this article, none of the items in this list mention anything notable about the respective schools. If there are notable elementary schools, then they should belong in a category, not be all mentioned in a list. Corpx 08:22, 30 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete — these schools would be better discussed in the article of the relevant school district. Cedars 08:26, 30 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. This is what Category:Elementary schools in California is for. --Piet Delport 08:54, 30 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Not because elementary schools are "non-notable" (we all went to one or more) but because, as Resolute points out, the list fails to be useful, and as others note, this is covered elsewhere. I think the author was testing the water by listing three districts; it's too cold to swim in this one 13:51, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
Delete this list is not useful. Oyster Guitarst 22:06, 30 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as useless listcruft. However, WP:LIST is a guideline, which explictly allows exceptions, so I do not promise to voye always this way in such cases. Bearian 00:45, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Just for the record, all rules on Wikipedia allow exceptions, and you never have to worry about promising to vote in a certain way: article deletions are considered separately. --Piet Delport 08:47, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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