Talk:West Point Elementary School (Pennsylvania)

This article was nominated for deletion on 4 July, 2006. The result of the discussion was keep.

Comment on Afd

I'm happy with the redirect, I just wanted to note that on the AfD, 14 people voted for keep (three of those as keep as redirect), 4 voted for merge, and 29 voted for delete. I would havbe put the result of the debate as either delete or no consensus, but definitely not as keep. Fram 11:59, 10 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No consensus to delete is a keep. If in doubt, don't delete. Please note also that AfD is not a vote. --Tony Sidaway 13:01, 10 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Not a vote, allright. I'll count the suggestions then... I just don't agree that a discussion where there is a lot of disagreement can be concluded as a keep, when most admins in that case seem to use 'no consensus' for such debates, which better reflects the actual discussion. That the policy is that in case of a no consensus discussion, the article is kept, does not mean that the conclusion of the debate was to keep the article. Take a random recent day: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2006 June 20. When there is a "keep", the clear majority of the people preferred "keep" (Nicole Tieri, List of Carnatic instrumentalists, ...) Then compare this to articles with "No consensus" like Jewish Life Network (5 keeps, 3 deletes), or Frost Like Ashes (a 2-2 split), or Common township names in Ohio (5D-1K, with 7 people in favor of Merge and/or redirect), or Arthur Wyatt (comics) (3Delete, 6Keep), or Edward Berridge(3-3), or Adrian Bamforth (3D-4K), ...

I just want to show that the usual thing in case which such a split opinion is to list it as "no consensus", which gives a completely different impression than a "keep", even though the actual result is the same. Giving the result as "no consensus" would probably also better explain to a casual reader why the article is merged and not kept as it was at the time of the AfD listing. Fram 13:26, 10 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]