Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/American Pacific International 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. --Tikiwont 10:30, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] American Pacific International School

American Pacific International School (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) – (View log)

School with no claims to notability. Ridernyc 20:17, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

• Delete Autobiographical article that fails NPOV. No sources to speak of. GlassCobra 21:52, 22 October 2007 (UTC) Keep Wow, looks a lot better! Very impressive revisions. GlassCobra 19:14, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
• Delete In the current revision, I don't see any sources that establish notability. When I googled, I only found [1], which really only mentions the article's subject in passing. Unless sufficient sources are found, I advocate deletion. — Ksero 22:01, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
• Delete per Ksero. CRGreathouse (t | c) 14:18, 24 October 2007 (UTC) See below.
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletions. —Camaron1 | Chris 09:16, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
• Keep - Article clearly needs a complete re-write, but alone the uniqueness of the school, being an American boarding school in Asia, and its coverage - doing pre-school, primary, secondary, and higher education suggests notability. Several sites I found have dedicated sections for the school which provide information which could be put into a encyclopedic article: [2], [3], [4], [5], as well as the schools own website: [6]. I also found a podcast interview [7]. Camaron1 | Chris 15:01, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment - 48 hours (time this AFD should have left) is not long enough to completely re-write a article, and I am generally against tight time limits for article improvements. It should be looked at what the article will be in the long-run, not just what it is this moment. At the end of the day - if the article is deleted, it will just be re-created with concerns addressed in the long-run; the article is tagged and assessed for easy improvement, so I honestly do not see the point of deleting potentially good articles. I will bring it up at WikiProject Schools to try and get it some attention. Camaron1 | Chris 16:59, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
    • The article doesn't have to be fixed in the sense of becoming a decent article, just fixed by showing notability -- which it doesn't at the moment. CRGreathouse (t | c) 20:16, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
      • I have removed copyvio and reduced the article to stub, which is a start. Now the article simply needs to be expanded and references added for notability, which is the next stage. Camaron1 | Chris 21:36, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
      • I have expanded the article and added references, it has been established there is plenty of internet coverage of the school and plenty that can be added, the problem there are limits to what information I can find in English and online; I am continuing to look for awards and alumni, as I doubt there would not be any for a school of that type/size. Camaron1 | Chris 09:40, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
• I still don't think the notability threshold has been met, but I'll strike my delete vote and instead council patience while you or someone else fixes up the article. If no one does fix it up I'll go back to my delete vote. CRGreathouse (t | c) 16:27, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
• Delete. non-notable. ~Jeeny ^(talk) 03:29, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
• Delete: No assertion of notability. - Rjd0060 04:17, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
• Keep Quite apart from the general question, there seems to be enough indication of notability for this one, even in the stubbified article. Funny--last week almost everyone commenting on high schools thought they were notable as a matter of course--this week obviously not--I know consensus can change but i didnt realise it changed as fast as that--or is this an indication of an unstable system, making decisions by the chance of who happens to show up each time. The citizen jury system, carried to its absurdity by letting people select what juries they're going to be on. DGG (talk) 03:29, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
• Keep - major, notable school now fully sourced. TerriersFan 22:44, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
  • finding it mentioned on sites that do nothing but list 100's if not 1000's of schools is far from notable. Ridernyc 09:35, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Thank you for further improving it, the article is now fully referenced with multiple sources used, and even if it wasn't I would have still said to keep it per WP:POTENTIAL - which this article clearly has. Camaron1 | Chris 19:12, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
• Keep. The school is notable for being an all-through boarding school taking children as young as six, and is also one of a few schools in Thailand offering an American curriculum. Thanks to the work of TerriersFan the article is now well referenced. There is clearly scope for further expansion. Dahliarose 11:43, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
• Keep. This well-sourced article demonstrates notability. -- DS1953 ^talk 01:17, 30 October 2007 (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.