Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Canton Public School District (Mississippi)

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. —Quarl ^(talk) 2007-03-18 08:52Z

[edit] Canton Public School District (Mississippi)

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Article fails to assert any notability or cite any reliable sources. Butseriouslyfolks 09:45, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

• Delete - per nom. Betaeleven 16:34, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
• Keep As long as every U.S. numbered road and every British title of nobility and every pro athlete is inherently notable, then so is every school district. Sources can doubtless be found to give statistical info. Edison 21:37, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletions. -- Noroton 21:55, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
• Strong Keep It's bad to delete within a day or two after creation of the article. Give it time. If it doesn't expand I'd eventually favor merging it into Canton County. Noroton 21:58, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

From the box on top of Wikipedia:Articles for Deletion:

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For problems that do not require deletion, including duplicate articles, articles needing improvement, pages needing redirects, or POV problems, be bold and fix the problem or tag the article appropriately.

And in the section "Before nominating an article for deletion" it says:

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Noroton 22:13, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

• Comment On WP:POL, under "key policies", in bold, it says:

"Add only information based on reliable sources. Wikipedia articles should be based on reliable published sources, and these sources should be cited so that other editors can check articles."

Also, on every edit screen, it says "Encyclopedic content must be attributable to a reliable source."

Thus, the very creation of an article which consists exclusively of unsourced assertions is a violation of WP policy. It makes no sense to assign to others the impossible task of proving that there are no sources that support the claims of an article. The article's proponents need to step up and edit the article until it passes muster.

Finally, I have no way of knowing whether anybody will ever come back to an article. A day or two plus 5 days at AfD should be plenty of time. It can always be created in proper form later. On the other hand, if I don't tag it when I see it, it might stay that way indefinitely, and it may give others a negative view of WP. That is why we have policies and guidelines in the first place. --Butseriouslyfolks 23:23, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Well, there are footnotes now. So much for that objection. Noroton 03:08, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

My objection is still relevant vis a vis your position, which is what I was responding to, but as it is no longer relevant to the deletion question at issue here, I will not belabor the point. --Butseriouslyfolks

• Strong Keep School districts, as primary governmental entities, are inherently notable. Expand the article as appropriate. Alansohn 03:09, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
• Keep - School districts, as government bodies, are inherently notable. TerriersFan 00:07, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
• Keep. School districts are inherently notable, in the same way that small towns and villages are. They are also choice pages to merge short school articles into. Yamaguchi先生 05:45, 18 March 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.