Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Academic grading in North America

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The result was delete. v/r - T P 20:11, 14 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Academic grading in North America[edit]

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Delete after checking to see if there is any content that can be salvaged for the sibling articles. Academic grading is country specific and so having a continent-specific article is nonsensical. Also, it is not part of any existing article naming scheme as the red links in the footer template shows. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 20:12, 22 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. If the article Grade (education) were under 50KB, I would have chosen to say re-direct, but it is large; we also need pages for every continent (except Antarctica, which has no countries and thus an article would make no sense.) Georgia guy (talk) 20:21, 22 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- The 50KB size on Grade (education) can be fixed by splitting out an Academic grading by country article but I am not sure that even that sort of article is needed. The Category:Academic grading by country and a footer template can be used for navigation. Grade (education) does not need the minutiae of the separate countries. The article could benefit from a discussion of the different systems in a broad sense. From an article name POV "Academic grading in North America" is not a notable topic unless there is a wide number of grading systems that are used across all North American countries. . -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 21:04, 22 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Notwithstanding nominator's last remark about conditions for notability, an article with this title would make sense if the grading system across North America was uniform. Now, this makes about as much sense as Academic grading in the Southern hemisphere. --Lambiam 02:05, 23 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Education-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:09, 23 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Each nation's educational system is different, so this topic is a plausible one, though the analogous one ... in the southern hemisphere is not. Trying to reject an article by finding an article somewhat like it which is implausible is a non-argument. The valid topic Baseball in Cuba is not invalidated as a topic by the absurdity of Baseball in Antarctica.

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Sandstein 08:25, 3 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete As per the argument in the original nomination. Reforming the article content in some form might be acceptable in the long term doktorb _words^deeds 08:39, 3 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as unsourced synthesis. No sources can be found which cover this subject matter in the intersection given. Subject matter is well-covered by country, and no regional article makes sense unless someone has covered it as a topic. BusterD (talk) 13:51, 14 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as superceded. This article was started in 2005; we didn't have comprehensive articles on every country's grading systems, so we started with this. Its common sense that now we can remove this starter.--Milowent • ^hasspoken 17:13, 14 March 2012 (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.