Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Westbourne 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 was no consensus. --Coredesat 06:29, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Westbourne School

School w/o assertion of significance - CrazyRussian talk/email 01:09, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

• Merge with either Sheffield or Broomhill per WP:LOCAL. Verifiable, just not a lot of info right now so the subject might be best treated in an article about the community. JYolkowski // talk 01:51, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
• Merge or delete There's no reason for this article to exist on its own. -- Kicking222 03:21, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Fails to assert notability.--Húsönd 03:45, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. I added the inspection report by the Independent Schools Inspectorate. All high schools are notable, and this school includes the high school grades. --TruthbringerToronto (Talk | contribs) 03:57, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Cedars 04:47, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Secondary school, ergo notable. -- Necrothesp 11:45, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep There are less than 30 secondary schools in Sheffield, a city of more than half a million people, so it's notable in that context. It is regrettable that so many school articles in Wikipedia are so dull and empty, but my general view is that every school is worthy of a place. Emeraude 13:16, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per Necrothesp. --Daniel Olsen 13:45, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep all enduring public institutions. --Centauri 14:14, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Really? Would you favor an article for every post office and every DMV office? Pan Dan 23:06, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Khukri ^{(talk . contribs)} 14:52, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Non-notable. EVula 15:44, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
• Merge per JYolkowski, or else keep. — RJH (talk) 17:54, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep a comprehensive school with more than enough information available to justify the promise of future expansion. The additions by TruthbringerToronto provide additional sources, and the INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS INSPECTORATE INSPECTION REPORT ON Westbourne School makes for fascinating reading on the school's functions and programs. Alansohn 17:56, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
  • The government inspection report shows verifiability, yes. Notability, no. In general, the existence of non-trivial third-party sources shows that the outside world (as represented by the publisher of the source) deems the subject notable, hence we Wikipedians consider it notable enough for inclusion. But a government an inspection report on a school isn't published because its publisher, or anybody, deems the school notable, it's published because government schools are accountable to the public parents. So the government inspection report is not enough to show that this school is notable. Pan Dan 23:04, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
    • Comment on the above two contributions: It is not a comprehensive school. It is a fee paying private school. It is NOT a government report (which is not to say it is not as rigourour.) The Independent Schools Inspectorate is an inspectorate of independent (i.e. private) schools which are not inspected by the government OFSTED (Office for Standards in Education). Emeraude 23:13, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per Alansohn.  ALKIVAR™ 20:27, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
• Delete No claim of notability. I do not agree that all high schools should have an article. Mention it in an article on the town. Edison 21:41, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Why not have a lit of schools in the area article, rather than each specific school. There is no real reason to have an article on a school, unless it is famous in it's own right, which I don't think this is. Craighennessey 23:38, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. One of the most disputed topics in the history of AfD, I read in one of the namespace pages (I can't remember which), is the notability of schools (see WP:SCHOOL. I think it says secondary schools are decided as inherently notable. So keep it. That being said, the article doesn't say much. 129.98.197.86 01:56, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep I think a consensus needs to be reached at WP:SCHOOL before we start deleting articles on high schools. -Elmer Clark 01:57, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep for reasons established at User:Silensor/Schools (see also User:JoshuaZ/Schools if you are so inclined). Also meets criteria in proposed WP:SCHOOLS guideline and is verifiable subject matter. Silensor 05:13, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep I feel all schools deserve an article. Though this one does require significant expansion. Konman72 06:31, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep As per the norm. Alpharigel 18:56, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per Alansohn. --Myles Long 06:37, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
• Delete or Merge do not keep. Don't wait on WP:SCHOOL since it is not likely to reach consensus. Even if it does, this article does not meet the minimal requirements in that proposal. Vegaswikian 04:51, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
• Delete The article doesn't even try to assert notability.Glendoremus 05:33, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
• Delete No assertion of notability. Catchpole 11:20, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, meets all content policies (indeed, there is no suggestion that it does not). Christopher Parham (talk) 17:29, 24 October 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.