Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of New York City Public School Alumni

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 procedural close. Author moved the page into draft space. (non-admin closure) st170e^talk 00:17, 28 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

List of New York City Public School Alumni[edit]

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A nearly indiscriminate list of alumni of a school SYSTEM with the potential of becoming too big to handle. The Banner talk 22:34, 20 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Lists of alumni by school either in the article about the school - or if long enough, as a standalone list - make sense. Lists by school district or system do not. Such a list overlaps all such lists by school; and if complete, will be redundant. As an experiment, I looked at Andrew Jackson High School (Queens). That article records eight notable alumni; only one of which is included in the big list under discussion.

List of lists of New York City public school alumni, with links to relevant list articles or sections, could be a worthwhile navigation tool - which this list isn't. Narky Blert (talk) 12:36, 22 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. This page is not solely a random list of alumni-- it includes narrative about the history and impact of New York City public school alumni based on outside sources. It also follows the WP:GNG Notability Guideline because while many articles on the web discuss New York City and its public school alumni, this is the first and only Wikipedia page on the topic. All of the people listed on the page are considered notable in accordance with the Notability Guideline as well. — Preceding unsigned comment added by JacobBurgess89 (talk • contribs) 11:00, 27 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- The problem is not notability, the problem is the width of the area covered. Usually such a list is made up by school not by school system. Potentially, you can get a list of many thousands successful and notable alumni... The Banner talk 11:43, 27 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Note, the author has moved the page in question into draft space. TimothyJosephWood 15:44, 27 December 2016 (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.