Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of high schools in the Peoria Unified School District (2nd nomination)

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 Snow Keep. Mark Arsten (talk) 15:35, 3 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

List of high schools in the Peoria Unified School District[edit]

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Two years ago, I attempted to AfD this article. My mistake was lumping this AfD with a couple dozen elementary and middle schools, mostly from Arizona. The discussion ended "no consensus", and a renomination of this article was suggested at the time. I never followed through.

I've returned to this article after two years to renominate it for deletion. The reason is simple: it offers no exciting new content over the individual school articles, and this article can and has fallen out of date on information such as principals. Until July, the conference alignments were out of date; I've updated the enrollments, but that's maintenance work. Not only that, but the parroting of lead sections of articles sounds awkward and overly formal, especially since the writer of these articles has phrased the lead sections in the exact same format. In addition, it offers no navigational improvements over Template:Peoria Unified School District. Raymie (t • c) 02:16, 28 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Keep As important public institutions covering a large area, school districts typically have the significant coverage in multiple reliable and independent sources needed to satisfy WP:N. Additionally, school districts are, per AFD Common Outcomes, the merger targets for articles about Middle Schools and Elementary Schools. Not liking the "overly formal" and "awkward" phrasing of an article is a reason to edit it, not to delete it. Edison (talk) 03:07, 28 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- There is an article about the school district at Peoria Unified School District and an article for each of the seven high schools. The actual articles for the high schools feature almost exact versions of the same paragraphs in this article. Raymie (t • c) 03:10, 28 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I'm just not seeing a fork there... Fundamentally different content. Obviously, in the event that the nays have it, this would be a suitable merge target — but that would be a big mess, I think. We should leave well enough alone. Carrite (talk) 03:40, 28 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - Suitably encyclopedic list. Useful navigational aid. Carrite (talk) 03:32, 28 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. All lists typically duplicate information present in a bunch of articles, but organize that information differently, allowing easy access to some kind of navigation of the data. In this list, there is a list of high schools and their feeder schools all in one place; a reader does not have to wade through multiple articles to cull that information. The list has well-defined scope, notable entries, and general utility. If you think the sections on the high schools are needlessly verbose, edit them. Churn and change (talk) 04:13, 28 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Proper list, doesn't matter the exact nityy-gritty way it's organized. Buggie111 (talk) 13:08, 28 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Good overview that is appropriate for the encyclopedia, though the article could use a better name. "List of ..." doesn't really do it justice. -- DS1953 ^talk 16:51, 30 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

If there are problems with the maintenance of this (and I'd agree that basically just repeating the lede for a bunch of articles is a bit odd for a list article), should this not just be trimmed and tablefied? Morwen - Talk 14:39, 30 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Arizona-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 15:23, 30 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 15:23, 30 October 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.