Template talk:Schools in Derbyshire

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I'm not sure that the other former schools of Derby were notable - they probably were to the people who went there. I've added them for completeness in the context of post 1944 grammar schools in Derby. Parkfield Cedars gets a reference in the Judith Hann article.OldDerbeian 07:15, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

Redlinks in navigation templates seem to serve no useful purpose and also create problems, as sometimes they encourage the creation of articles for schools which aren't notable. I suggest that it would be better to include the blue links only and add new articles for notable schools as they are created, which is the norm in almost all such templates. Does anyone object to that approach? Xn4 03:54, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

One purpose they serve is to show that no article for the school exists, rather than that it simply hasn't been added to the template. I find that useful. Is any British secondary school truly not notable? They have all had thousands of people pass through them, have newspaper articles written about them (on opening day if no other - you can be sure), appear in directories, on the OFSTED website, etc, etc. YMMV. -Arb. 13:10, 30 October 2007 (UTC)