Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Seoul 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. - Mailer Diablo 11:26, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Seoul International School

Korea International School (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

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Delete - Contested prod. The reason cited was "high schools have sufficient inherent notability", which seems counter to WP:N, given that there are thousands of high schools around the world that have little notability beyond their communities. The articles have no assertion of notability other than that they exist and no discernible encyclopedic content, and read more like brochure. Ytny (talk) 16:31, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

• Delete per WP:N. There is no policy saying that high schools are inherently notable, just a group of editors who systematically !vote that way. MartinDK 03:16, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
• Weak Keep School was first foreign school established in Korea post-liberation, and offers a fully accredited American curriculum, making explicit claims of notability. Sources have been added, but my poor Korean language skills seem to be hampering my search for additional sources. More will be added as they improve. There is no policy saying that no school can ever be considered notable, just a group of editors who systematically !vote that way, usually by voting without bothering to justify their vote in reference to any relevant Wikipedia policy. Alansohn 11:30, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment I added the link to the WP:N. I thought it was obvious that I !voted delete for the same reasons as the nominator but fair enough. MartinDK 11:48, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
• Delete nn school, per the "dissent" at WP:SCHOOL. Eusebeus 13:46, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletions. -- Butseriouslyfolks 17:36, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
• Delete per WP:N. If the school were notable, it would be mentioned in reliable sources. There being no consensus that schools are or are not inherently notable, each school must satisfy WP:N to be included, and this one does not. --Butseriouslyfolks 07:00, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
• Keep. As noted by Alansohn, the school does claim some notability. -- DS1953 ^talk 00:07, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
• Weak keep per Alan provided that reliable sources can be given that seem to care about the claim of notability. If they are not found, this should be renominated. JoshuaZ 01:40, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
• Keep and cleanup - there are claims of notability and the school has some historic importance. The problem of finding sources is in part linguistic (my Korean is just not up to the job!}. If kept I intend to stub it and clean out the brochure-type material (the bulk of the contents). TerriersFan 02:02, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
• Keep High schools, especially international schools should have considerable notability. This is particularly true that they are likely to attract third party attention by participating in important contests and such. You'd just have to find the required newspaper article and so on.Insert non-formatted text here
• Keep' But requires an experienced editor to clean up. LordHarris 11:24, 12 May 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.