Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The British 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 delete per WP:NOT#DIRECTORY. KrakatoaKatie 20:29, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The British School

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This is a semi-procedural nom; please see Talk:The British School#Requested move for the details. To summarize:

• According to the discussion, there is no umbrella organization for "(The) British Schools" abroad whatsoever. The article does say that IGCSE has something to do with it, but does not offer any proof. There's some directory of schools at the British Council website, but it matches the one in the article only partially: some schools are in both, some are only in the article, some only at the website, and some have changed names.
• Thus, all the schools listed have only one thing in common: they're named "British School" for one reason or another. They don't form any kind of organization or union. This appears to be a trivial intersection.
• The article thus serves only a list of external links, violating WP:NOT#DIRECTORY
• There's no evidence of notability of the individual entries. Duja► 11:31, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
• Keep There are several existing articles for these schools, which are now linked within this list, and there seem to be several more with articles. The article makes no claim that there is a central organization for "The British School", other than offering the IGCSE curriculum. WP:NOT#DIR, one of the most abused and selectively misinterpreted policies in Wikipedia, provides no category that would fit this clearly-defined and unambiguous list. Theis list, organized and categorized by location, fits the textbook definition of lists covered by WP:LIST. Alansohn 17:26, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

  "Clearly-defined" in this case means "has words 'British' and 'school' in the title". Not exactly my favorite list criteria. Duja► 11:41, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

• Delete It is a mere repository of links, albeit divided neatly into country sections. Although there is no claim in the article that any educational body calling itself 'The British School of ...' is officially recognized as the official British representative school in any country, a casual reader of the article would be inclined wrongly to such a misleading and implicit conclusion. To leave the page in existence would foster this misunderstanding. The many quality British international schools without 'The British School' in their title have missed the cut here. The flipside of this statement could well be true. Artdesigns2006 04:10, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
• Delete though there may be an article here somewhere this is not it. Springnuts 23:02, 20 October 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.