User talk:Thmoore/Bennett Elementary School

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• I'm the nominator, so no recommendation, just a note. My main point was not that people worked hard on the Bennett article, or that the admin who whacked it has left in a huff. So please don't misstate my argument by focusing on those items. (Also, respectfully, I would suggest that anyone who characterizes it as falling afoul of WP:NOT#DIR has not read the article.) Make no mistake: My main point was that this is information that is worthy of being in the Wikipedia. I reviewed the notability guidelines, and find that they have no provision for entities that play a vital role in a community, but fail to be mentioned regularly in external press reports. This is a failure of the notability guidelines. In the real world, outside the WP notability guidelines, it's hard to argue that elementary schools are per se non-notable; they are the focus of a great deal of effort on the part of parents, school administrators, school boards, national politicians, and so forth. They employ a tremendous number of people nationally and, of course, millions of students attend them. Enormous amounts of money are spent on them locally, and billions of federal dollars are devoted to them as well. They are the centers of the communities in which they sit. But unless a teacher seduces a student or, God forbid, there's a shooting there, they are unlikely to have external press coverage individually. But if something newsworthy does happen at an elementary school you know as well as I that many folks, including reporters, would first go searching for information about the school in the Wikipedia. Thmoore 01:51, 24 September 2007 (UTC)