Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Crowlington Grammer School

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 of the debate was Delete as hoax. I am neutral on the notability of schools in general, but please do some research before automatically citing WP:SCHOOL on every school-related AfD you come across. Deathphoenix ʕ 16:08, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Crowlington Grammer School

Originally listed as a {{prod}} on 10 May 2006. Original reason in prod was "No assertion of notability, essentially empty article, unable to verify, and uncertain if "Grammer" is typo or not (or why old South African flag is used by an Australian school)". Tag was removed by original editor without explanation, only change was to correct misspelling of word “Grammer” throughout the article. Fluit 21:08, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

• Correction: There was the following comment on the "talk" page:

Hi all Wikipedia users, Tony Romano here, Assistant Principal of Crowlington Grammar School. Just letting anyone interested to know that the Crowlington Wikipedia page is an assignment that has been set for out media students and was intended as an ongoing project, thus the reason it is far from completed. I'd also like to point out that 'Grammer' is infact a typo, but that we have been unable to change the title of the page, if anyone could help with that, it would be much appreciated. As for the flag, that was used until we get our own logo up on it. Thanks very much for your help and consideration.

This doesn't convince me to withdraw, but I'll leave it to others to discuss and decide. Fluit 21:12, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

• Weak Keep / Comment: The page has been moved to Crowlington Grammar School at Mr. Romano's request. As for my vote on the AFD, there are other schools with pages and I think the jury is still out on notability for schools lower than the college level. (BTW, in case anyone else is uncertain as I was, according to the article, they go K-12, so they aren't an elementary school. I had always assumed "grammar school" = "elementary school", but I guess not.) If they are committed to making this page sourced and verifiable, that's fine. As one word of caution to the class, Wikipedia is not for things made up in school one day BigDT 21:20, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Wikipedia:WikiProject Schools refers.  (aeropagitica)  (talk)  21:27, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep for reasons described at Wikipedia:Schools/Arguments#Keep. Not that anyone has, but please try not to WP:BITE the new users during this discussion. Silensor 21:30, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Schools are notable. DarthVader 22:44, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, but it needs a lot of work on it and quickly. Note that the term "Grammer School" was used for a long time in UK to designate a High School, going up to university entry. This use also moved to Australia and other parts of the Commonwealth. Melbourne Grammar School, for example, is one of the most well known schools in Australia. --Bduke 23:06, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Delete. It is clearly a hoax. I should have checked more. --Bduke 03:53, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

• Well, I feel that Wikipedia is not a free web host or a sandbox for your designs, but on the other hand they've shown good faith and are in the process of creating a good page, so keep. Stifle (talk) 11:40, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Hoax. As hoaxy as hoaxy as hoaxy can possibly be, and with a South African flavour to boot. Not one single G-hit - this for an Australian school which has apparently been around since 1847? A private school with 3,500 pupils? Whose "Assistant Principal" is happy to use an apartheid-era South African flag instead of a school badge? Whose school newspaper is called Howzitchina (a South African English phrase meaning, roughly, What's up, dude?) Oh, pur-lease. My suspicion falls on someone Ben Crowley from Camberwell High School. Humansdorpie 19:04, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Australia-related deletions. -- Humansdorpie 19:04, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
• delete please this looks like a hoax to me too so the assistance principal needs verification Yuckfoo 22:58, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete hoax. --Rob 05:44, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete -- never heard of it, neither has Google. - Longhair 06:05, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Classic hoax. Brisvegas 23:38, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete hoax. Even if it really is an assignment, there is no reason that it should grace Wikipedia's pages in this state. Lankiveil 02:29, 14 May 2006 (UTC).
• Delete per Rob. Ardenn 03:39, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete or BJAODN, wow, what a great hoax! -- Samir (the scope) धर्म 10:30, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete hoax. Maxamegalon2000 03:07, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Wow. Really nice hoax, though. -- Jjjsixsix ^(t)/_(c) @ 04:33, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

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.