Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Malvern Preparatory School
This is fairly well-written (best of the batch), but is it notable enough? What do you think? Mandel 18:28, Oct 20, 2004 (UTC)
- Obviously I'm voting keep, although I'm probably a bit biased ;). However, I can promise that I'll be expanding the article a bit more over the next few days, especially over the weekend when I have more time to write. --Goobergunch 23:15, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Keep. This is the best of the batch, and I appreciate your honest assesment, Mandel. Has alumni and good history. The only thing that worries me about this article are the deadlinks to possibly non-notable schools. Deadlinks encourage creation, and we should be cautious about that. Good article in its own right though. Cool Hand Luke (Communicate!) 07:45, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Hmm, the alumni are an actor, a baseball player, and someone married to a politician. I'm not that impressed by the list. It looks like a well-written and balanced article, though, and does include one news related fact. I'm borderline either way on this one. Average Earthman 08:24, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Keep. -- Necrothesp 13:32, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Keep. Excellent article; establishes notability. Ambi 13:50, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Yet again we have ot put up with non-notable crap just because someone thinks the article is well-written. See below Chris 02:47, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Keep. The person or persons responsible for this article deserve to be given cookies as a reward for actually making an honest atempt to establish notability. [[User:Aranel|Aranel ("Sarah")]] 01:03, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Count in 3 more delete votes from Improv, WOT and Vina. See above. Mandel 09:07, Oct 22, 2004 (UTC)
- I don't think so. If they can't be bothered to vote individually on each article's merits then I definitely don't think we should accept their votes. Stop this ludicrous campaign against school articles just because they're school articles. Some are worth keeping, some aren't. This one is. -- Necrothesp 00:44, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Analysis of an article:
- para. 1 - the basics. Always a good start, but not an article by themselves.
- "History" TBH, this could be any school in any community. Nothing in here sets it apart from other schools around the world.
- "Priest abuse" Ugh. Does this belong here? I think not - there should be many better places for this. Otherwise it's veiled attempt at saying "Don't send your kids here, they might get raped."
- Notable alumni - an old bone of contention, but that list certainly isn't impressive, and definitely is not a source of notability. David's best mates and family aren't notable in themselves, so why should this school be?
- School year - fairly standard. In countries with real education systems, term dates are fixed, so this is entirely moot.
- Athletics - "Malvern boasts a strong athletic program, with 16 varsity sports." ... and? SFW?
- ACtivities - "Malvern offers 21 extracurricular activities." Yet again, SFW?
- The robotics part certainly doesn't establish anything notable - simply having a robotics club or society isn't a notable achievement. Having the first ever schools robotics club ever in the world ever might be, but nothing in what was said here is notable in the slightest.
So, in summary, what on this page establishes the school as notable? Sweet FA. Delete Chris 02:47, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Weak keep. It establishes some minor notable aspects of the school. However, the academics and activities sections should be dumped. Most schools have AP classes and extracurricular activities. Who cares? Gamaliel 05:41, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)