On 9/23/06, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 23/09/06, Guy Chapman aka JzG <guy.chapman(a)spamcop.net> wrote:
This is a hardened attitude formed by people on VFD as it was who
wanted to delete all schools from Wikipedia below the notability level
of Eton. That is: the process was pathological on both sides.
Quite frankly I am anything but a deletionist, but I think that a school
with 75 students and no other claim to notability doesn't deserve a
Wikipedia article
So let's assume every school will be in Wikipedia on the same basis
that every pissweak or even no-longer-existent hamlet
in the US will
remain. What can be done then?
* Is existence enough? Evidently.
* So we need proof of existence and basic verifiable information.
There is a long-established tradition of notability for Wikipedia
articles. We delete things that are non-notable. People who say "all
schools are notable" aren't discussing an issue, they are espousing an
ideology. Some people who home-school their children register a school. By
that token, anyone home-schooling their children is notable enough for
inclusion, so the only barrier then is verifiability
There should be enough for a stub at the very least. If you want to
turn it into a list entry instead, the redirect needs
to be in the
appropriate place.
If you're bringing this to wikien-l to re-fight the school deletion
wars, you're probably not spending your time well.
You really shouldn't be calling the kettle black David ;)
- d.
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