Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Colne Community School

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The result was Speedy keep nom withdrawn, WP:SNOW. JERRY ^talk _contribs 03:15, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Colne Community School

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No evidence to suggest that the school is notable, or that significant coverage exists in independent sources. Merging some information into ColneBrightlingsea, the town in which the school is located, might not be a bad idea - but there does not appear to be any independently sourced (or sourceable) information to merge. UltraExactZZ ^Claims ~ Evidence 15:40, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

*Delete as nom. UltraExactZZ ^Claims ~ Evidence 15:40, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

• Merge as suggested alternative made by Exact. Colne has 20,000 people and, according its article, nine primary schools, three high schools and two colleges, so I'm not sure how much detail can be provided. Maybe a spinoff article can be made from Colne #Education and training, as with other school districts. Mandsford (talk) 19:03, 8 January 2008 (UTC) Oops.

• One thing about the merge: the school is located in Brightlingsea, Essex, not Colne, Lancashire. • Gene93k (talk) 17:19, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

• I'm glad you caught that. Brightlingsea is a town of 8,500 and its article isn't as big as that of Colne. There's no reason that this can't be merged to Brightlingsea, with an appropriate redirect. I'm curious as to what Google news search turned up, as described below, since there's a difference between a school in Colne, Colne College and this particular school. Mandsford (talk) 19:03, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

  I've updated the nomination, and am embarassed that I missed such a major detail. I am also curious about the news search, as I was unable to find anything relating to this particular institution. UltraExactZZ ^Claims ~ Evidence 19:21, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

• Keep and cleanup. Secondary schools tend to be notable and a Google News search shows abundant 3rd party WP:RS coverage. • Gene93k (talk) 16:21, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

  The only items I could find involved a staff member's involvement in a fundraiser, and the fact that she was picked up at her place of business, "Colne Community College". If there are alternate terms or searches, by all means - I'm happy to withdraw the nom, if we have sources. UltraExactZZ ^Claims ~ Evidence 19:21, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

  My Google News search for "Colne Community School" [1] got several hits. Among other things, the school is an early adopter of UK random drug testing [2]. It is used as an example for school issues [3] [4]. I will work the new material into the article as I find the time. • Gene93k (talk) 20:07, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. -- the wub "?!" 01:14, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
• Keep - as a large (in UK terms) High School with a sixth form this is notable. Ofsted categorised the school as "Innovative". The Princess Royal opened its sports facility - a royal opening is notable as highly unusual. Plenty of sources to expand the page. We delete when an article cannot be expanded not as here, because it needs work. TerriersFan (talk) 01:39, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
• Keep as per Terriers Fan. Dahliarose (talk) 13:29, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
• Keep, Cleanup and Expand - For the same reasons given by TerriersFan and Gene93k. A simple Google search produced the same kind of results as found by Gene93k, and I am at a loss how Ultraexactzz did not find them, except that he used different search terms to the most obvious ones (for UK editors, that is) as well as initially getting the location of the school wrong. The point about not deleting when extra work can improve the article is thus most apt.  DDStretch  (talk) 13:36, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
• Withdraw Nomination, as the arguments above are persuasive. In my defense, I was searching Google for terms that didn't come up with anything, not realizing that there were different, more accurate terms. I didn't have the right location, either, so - of course! - there wouldn't be anything local where I was looking, because the school wasn't there at all. I should have taken more time with this one, but - from where I was sitting - it looked to be a clear case. I can't non-admin close, as I'm involved in the discussion - but I invite anyone else to close this nom as Withdrawn. Thank you. UltraExactZZ ^Claims ~ Evidence 13:44, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
• Well done UltraExactZZ Victuallers (talk) 21:21, 9 January 2008 (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.