Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/King and Low-Heywood Thomas 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 keep. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 23:29, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] King and Low-Heywood Thomas School

Private educational institution with no assertion of notability. Húsönd 22:31, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

• Delete WP:NN -- ßottesiηi ^(talk) 23:16, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep and cleanup, verifiable. JYolkowski // talk 23:46, 25 October 2006 (UTC) Oh, and I'd also be amenable to a merge with Education in Stamford, Connecticut as the "Private education" section of that is pretty skimpy. JYolkowski // talk 23:48, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
• Strong Keep A thorough, well-crafted article for a comprehensive school that includes a high school. We have broad precedent for retention of high school articles. The article makes a rather clear statements of notability regarding programs and former staff, that nominator seems to ignore. Alansohn 00:24, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

I did not ignore anything. There is currently nothing on the article that makes me believe that the institution is notable enough to merit an encyclopedic article about it. The fact that this person Jean Harris who might be notable was the headmistress of the school does not grant notability per se to it.--Húsönd 00:28, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. --Holdek ^(talk) 03:14, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
• Comment I haven't made up my mind on this one yet, will do more research later, but I did find+ add an additional claim of notability to the school - they are one of only a very small number (203 secondary schools in the US) who subscribe to JSTOR. I added that to the article. JoshuaZ 04:35, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, more than notable enough for an encylopedia of schools in Stamford, Connecticut. Merging doesn't look appropriate, especially as this school is the result of several merges itself. Kappa 04:59, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment Wikipedia is not an "encylopedia of schools in Stamford" JoshuaZ 15:02, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep — It passes my bar of notability. — RJH (talk) 17:47, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
• Change the policy Who are the people most likely to use an encyclopedia? Will you use & trust an encyclopedia with or without your school? --Mike 20:33, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep I can't see anything in the policy that says a secondary school isn't notable - I would expect to find an entry for any secondary (of normal size) in Wikipedia. --Mike 20:38, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Comment For the record, WP:SCHOOL is not a policy yet. There are millions of high schools in the world whose eventual articles would never interest anyone, apart from their students who drop by every now and then just to vandalize them. All the information about non-notable high schools has its place on the respective schools' websites, Wikipedia presumes to be an encyclopedia, not an indiscriminate collection of information.--Húsönd 20:48, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

For the record it doesn't look like it ever will be! There is no concensus at all on that proposal and to post a mere suggestion as "policy" is quite "economical with the truth"!

• Strong Delete as above, there are thousands highschools all over the world. Are we going to put every Post Office too ? Tulkolahten 22:36, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Wikipedia is not an exhaustive directory of non-notable schools. —ptk✰fgs 00:18, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per Alansohn, no problem here. Silensor 06:37, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Good article (if short) notability asserted. AKAF 16:07, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per Alansohn and AKAF. Cynical 21:42, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per Alansohn. --Myles Long 16:12, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per arguments above!! Audiobooks 20:17, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment- May be a single-purpose account; user is 3 days old and half of his/her edits have been to post this message to school-related AFDs. --Kuzaar^-T-C- 20:42, 30 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.