Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pikesville Middle School

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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 redirect to Baltimore County Public Schools. - BanyanTree 10:14, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Pikesville Middle School

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Subject middle school is not notable, per WP:SCHOOLS and is unlikely to have the required sources to pass WP:N. Middle/elementary schools are not considered inherantly notable. This article fails to assert special notability, and does not list any reliable sources. The school is already listed at the district article, Baltimore County Public Schools. JGHowes talk - 22:30, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

  • Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. -- BelovedFreak 22:49, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Redirect to the school district album as a plausible search term. We want to take the people to where the information is. -- saberwyn 22:54, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Redirect to Baltimore County Public Schools, as saberwyn says, it can be used as a search term. Not notable enough for its own article per WP:SCHOOLS.--BelovedFreak 22:58, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Note: This debate has been included in the list of Maryland-related deletion discussions. -- Fabrictramp (talk) 23:21, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Redirect without more evidence, but Google searches indicate some non-trivial coverage including one notable alumnus, Kevin Liles.[1] This school may have a story to tell. • Gene93k (talk) 23:30, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete, non-notable school. There is a weird area that looks like an old graveyard (rumor has it as Civil War-ish), but I haven't been able to find anything WP:RS about that, and still not notable about the school at all. I don't even think we need a redirect, since it's not likely to become an article (don't need the place-holder) and searching for "pikesville middle school" should still find the BCPS page. DMacks (talk) 01:57, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
    • As opposed to taking them to the information directly. A redirect is not always a placeholder, it is more often a navigational tool to take users from 'incorrect' locations of information (i.e. misspellings, alternate names, sub-topics) to the 'correct location'. -- saberwyn 02:10, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
    • Yes. My point was that it isn't needed for the user who is looking up this phrase. And I didn't think there was likely to be a mention of it in other articles (so no redlinks would be cured by having a redirect). But redirects are cheap, so I have no objection to redirect, just didn't see the need. General question: do we usually have redirects from every (or "most", or "whatever people bother creating) school-name to the school-system (or jurisdiction, or whatever), or only "after the article dies by AfD" precedent? DMacks (talk) 02:20, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Redirect to Baltimore County Public Schools as per Belovedfreak and WP:SCHOOL proposal. DoubleBlue (Talk) 17:37, 20 April 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.