On 26/09/06, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
Verifyability is not a problem; there are nationwide school databases out on the Internet with the basic particulars, and in many cases fairly extensive information, on every legitimate school nationwide. Some of these are things like US Department of Education annual reports, which are both available on the web and available in printed form. There are equivalents from state Boards of Education as well. This information is extremely widely available because parents use it in selecting where they want to move to, based on educational strength, and because public oversight of schools is a generally accepted positive thing.
So rambot usable lists of the data, and create a forest of redirects.
School articles do need some sort of canonical naming format. [[School name, Town, State, Country]] or something equivalent - something like the naming format for cities and towns with school name on the front.
This will (a) include all verifiable schools (b) having the entry be a redirect to a list until there's something real to write an article about will save on people coughing up their own skulls in disgust.
- d.