Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of schools in Washington

List of schools in Washington was proposed for deletion. This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was DELETE

Is it really possible to list every single school in every single state in the United States? Is it really possible to keep people from making red links to every single school so that others will come along and want to create articles about all of those nonnotable schools? Please kill it now before it spreads. Rick K 23:16, Sep 26, 2004 (UTC)

Delete. It's a list, it encourages bad articles, and it's not notable. Any alone would be enough to make it worth deletion. --Improv 23:22, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC)

See also: List of schools in Maryland - List of schools in North Carolina - List of schools in Texas Rick K 23:47, Sep 26, 2004 (UTC)

Delete all list of schools in <insert state here> articles. — Gwalla | Talk 23:54, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- I agree with Gwalla and promise to vote for the deletion of all such lists. --Improv 00:53, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Delete. However it seems that being able to quickly find information about schools in various states, countries, etc. is useful. Perhaps someone who knows this area might be able to provide external links to sources that do have such lists within appropriate articles or articles. That is, an article on [Schools in the USA] with a discussion of the USAmerican school system and links to lists that are regularly maintained would be far better for Wikipedia users than this would be. Wikipedia is not a directory, and should not be a directory of schools. But it is quite within our mandate to provide links from a general article to useful directories of schools. Jallan 14:33, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Keep - real schools? The Recycling Troll 03:18, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Delete. Better, more complete, and more up-to-date results will always be obtainable by using an appropriate search such as Anywho search for public schools in Washington [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 20:10, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Keep - See: List of schools. This should not have been listed for deletion as this is a subset of the "list of schools" article. I don't care if THAT one is listed, but it's either a keep all or a delete all. WhisperToMe 00:43, 1 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Delete. Wile E. Heresiarch 14:21, 1 Oct 2004 (UTC)
NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! Delete! And all its bretheren! The Land 11:36, 3 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Delete - this is a job for categories. -- Cyrius|✎ 23:28, 3 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Keep - SimonP 21:22, Oct 5, 2004 (UTC)

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