Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/J.F. Carmichael Public School

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The result was Delete and redirect to Waterloo, Ontario. --Luigi30 (Taλk) 14:19, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] J.F. Carmichael Public School

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The school's main assertion of notability is that a famous person was a student there. My prod was contested, with a rationale given on the talk page. YechielMan 22:28, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

• Delete No source for the very weak notibility. The prime minister in question I believe went to Berlin school which is not renamed to anything like JR Carmichael school. 1 famous student does not make the school notable anyway.--Dacium 22:45, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
• Delete per above. Non-notable school. Soltak | Talk 22:53, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
• commentHad King gone there, one pupil of such fame would be enough. But I see no sources for that. Although this one isn't listed in the WP bio, that's hardly definitive, for he might have gone to several. If there's evidence, the school is N. But not until there is. DGG 07:09, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
• Redirect to Waterloo, Ontario unless significantly expanded using reliable sources. RFerreira 08:58, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
• Merge/Redirect to Waterloo, Ontario. Article does not meet either the WP:SCHOOLS3 or the genuine WP:Schools proposal. One of the few issues the two proposals agree on is that articles that don't meet retention criteria should be considered for merge/redirect to a school district or parent community article. While the article does quote the school custodian, usually the most reliable source of any information in a school, additional reliable sources (even better if they were verifiable sources) should be added. Alansohn 14:06, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
• Redirect to Waterloo Ontario pending better sources. (jarbarf) 18:30, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
• Delete. Even if the prime minister mentioned had been there, I don't buy the "famous alumnus" argument: everyone gets educated somewhere. What does the school do that its peers do not ? The article doesn't say, which leads me to the view that the school does nothing notable. Alansohn is right when he says that the school custodian is a great source of information about a school, of course, but unless the custodian has written a book or contributed to another public reference source we can't use this information, as it's just hearsay. If we decide to allow undocumented hearsay into Wikipedia we will turn into a gossip column. ( Though if we do decide to go down this route I'm looking forward to spilling the beans on several famous people ! ) WMMartin 18:34, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
• Redirect per WP:LOCAL.  ALKIVAR™ ☢ 19:32, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
• Delete, no sources, not encyclopedic. --MaNeMeBasat 14:21, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
• Redirect to either Waterloo, Ontario or Waterloo Region District School Board (if it exists) per WP:LOCAL. Google offers plenty of verifiable information about the school. Yamaguchi先生 07:46, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
• Redirect per Yamaguchi先生. Chairman S. Talk ^Contribs 05:08, 12 February 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.