Guettarda wrote:
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
I think the danger here is that "doesn't deserve" (though I agree) is a value judgment about which it is quite hard to get consensus. I would put it this way:
"An article with no independent sources of any kind about a school (or anything else) about which there is only a clearly homemade website presents insurmountable editorial difficulties for us. As a general rule, there is no good way to be sure that we are not being hoaxed, nor that the information on the website is in any way true."
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
So, yeah, while I agree, I still think it is almost always better to find some *other* point of argument than "notability" which is the sort of value judgment that is pretty hard to get consensus on.
--Jimbo