Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of education districts in Queensland

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The result was delete. BD2412 T 01:07, 30 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

List of education districts in Queensland[edit]

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Basically for the same reasons as Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/List_of_school_education_areas_in_New_South_Wales. This is outdated bureaucratic trivia, which seems to be motivated by the idea that "America has notable school districts so other countries must too". In Australia, we have no school districts in the American sense – a special-purpose tier of local government to run schools with its own taxes and elections. In Australia, public schools are run by state education departments. State education departments always set up some structure of "regional offices/districts/areas" for administrative convenience, and every few years they will rearrange that. But that's just non-notable bureaucratic trivia. Unless you work for a public school (as a teacher or administrative/support staff), it makes no difference to you (and even if you do, the local school is much more important than the question of who the principal's boss is.) And this list of non-notable bureaucratic trivia is out of date anyway. (There are no articles on these "school districts"; the blue links all point to articles on the localities, not their "school districts".) Mr248 (talk) 21:17, 5 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Education-related deletion discussions. Mr248 (talk) 21:17, 5 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. Mr248 (talk) 21:17, 5 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Australia-related deletion discussions. Mr248 (talk) 21:17, 5 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 21:20, 5 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Deus et lex, Adamant1, and TimothyBlue: since you commented on the related AFD Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/List_of_school_education_areas_in_New_South_Wales you might want to comment on this very similar one. Mr248 (talk) 11:39, 11 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, EN-Jungwon 06:04, 13 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Delete For the same reasons as Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/List_of_school_education_areas_in_New_South_Wales. Mainly, this doesn't seem like a thing IRL and the links do not go to school district articles. So, it's all rather arbitrary and goes against the guidelines for lists. Adamant1 (talk) 10:05, 14 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Part of the justification for the articles on American school districts is to have some place to redirect/merge schools. I think this applies to Australia also. I Or is there an alternative. The comments above would imply that the only larger body is the State department of education, and that's much too large a unit for political groupings such as the states in Australia. DGG ( talk ) 06:18, 21 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Spartaz ^Humbug! 07:53, 22 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Agree, this seems purposeless and there is no rationale for it in WP:NOTESAL. Schools can be redirected to their locality. Tacyarg (talk) 19:12, 22 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Delete As the article itself states, "This is a complete list of education districts in Queensland, Australia, prior to the recent reorganisation of the state into seven school regions." Don't see the need for an obsolete list of districts. Also, the single external link no longer exists. Teraplane (talk) 23:19, 27 March 2021 (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.