On 7/2/07, Philippe Beaudette philippebeaudette@gmail.com wrote:
Could we, once and for all (or at least until the wind changes) make a determination on whether such school should be included in the 'pedia? Or, if not a determination, at least a very strong suggestion?
The current status quo evolved from deletionists going on rampages and indiscriminately purging school articles. Nominators couldn't be trusted to have googled the school, or to even have pure motives - Some users openly advocated deleting all school articles, so there was distinct a possibility their claims of 'Fails WP:NOT' or whatnot were just a smokescreen for their real agenda. Enough good, promising, etc articles were whacked for the inclusionists to muster the motivation to organize SchoolWatch. In a practical sense, high school deletion debates now default to keep. This is not necessarily a good thing; Some of the kept articles normally wouldn't pass the notability test and some are simply irredeemable crap. Schoolwatch stands as an example of one result of sufficiently antagonizing inclusionists.
-Chris Croy