Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of school districts in Inyo County, 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 Merge to Inyo County, California. Tyrenius 01:55, 23 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

List of school districts in Inyo County, California[edit]

List of redlinks that has essentially remained untouched since created in 2005. Perhaps a merge into a list of California school districts, or turn into a cat... or just delete it. Flyguy649^talk_contribs 20:03, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as an unnecessary list. Two years unedited, near orphan and most likely unwatched is long enough. --Tony Sidaway 20:17, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
How is this any different from the other 57 articles in Category:Lists of California school districts by county, such as List of school districts in Orange County, California and List of school districts in San Mateo County, California? How are you proposing that redlinks be categorized? And why is such an obviously large task of writing about all of the school districts in California being given a deadline? Uncle G 20:38, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletions. -- -- pb30<talk> 21:29, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Merge Why don't put it instead in the Inyo County article instead?--JForget 00:39, 16 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as listcruft. Obviously there is no interest in maintaining, much less expanding, the project. Let the orphan die. --Nonstopdrivel 00:54, 16 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Merge with Inyo County. Information about the education system is within local interest, and is well covered in the article about the place. Sjakkalle (Check!) 09:34, 16 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Merge. No need for separate article. - grubber 19:32, 16 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to the county article, like the list of cities and towns that is already there. --Butseriouslyfolks 02:04, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
KeepThese are necessary as a way of handling the articles that will be made by merging the trivial articles on individual schools. DGG 08:09, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Merging will only make the county article a list of lists, so the "cure" is worse than the disease. I don't have any problem with these lists full of redlinks. I often refer tot them when creating articles to make sure I am using the correct name, and not creating duplicates. Dhaluza 17:12, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep -- Capmango's argument (just below) convinces me. Uniformity isn't an absolute concept by any means, but it's useful to have this information as an article if all the other California counties will have similar school-districts lists. Deleting will just cause confusion for readers, it seems to me.Merge Overall, I like Dhaluza's arguments, but I have no problem with the county article looking a bit more like a list of lists. Nothing wrong with a list of redlinks since, for one thing, it helps readers understand that they don't have to type in each district's name in order to search for it. It could very well be useful for readers to know simply that this number of districts exists in the county and these are the names. I see no need to keep such a short article when the county article is small and could easily accommodate the extra information.Noroton 14:26, 18 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep at the risk of being accused of a WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS argument, every county in California has this list, and it would be really odd for every county except Inyo to have it (this is an organizational sanity argument, not an otherstuffexists argument). Not surprising that it hasn't changed since being created, as one would only expect the list to change if school districts were added or merged. Capmango 17:11, 18 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Strong Delete. It's a few redlinks. Why clutter a county page with them? We have to draw the upmerge line somewhere, i say draw it here. Heck if I saw that while browsing random articles I would've speedied it.--Wizardman 02:43, 19 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Merge - I don't see any big problem with merging this into Inyo County, California which has room for this information, especially if it is useful in the long-run to help create school district articles and would serve a similar purpose to what is already in the article. Camaron1 | Chris 19:10, 19 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Merge To Inyo County, California as another example of Schoolcruft. A list of school districts (all redlinks) within a country is unencylopedic, does not meet notablity, and will not serve any useful purpose. A reduced bit of information about the school districts in the context of the county education system would be acceptable. There is no reasonable basis for this list to remain as an article in it's own right. Thewinchester ^(talk) 14:34, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
merge as above per User:Sjakkalle, etc... Eusebeus 14:39, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Why does eveyone want to merge a bunhc of redlinks, when this as actually almost speedyable by csd a3?--Wizardman 16:37, 20 June 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.