On 9/26/06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 26/09/06, Zoney zoney.ie@gmail.com wrote:
Surely the thing to do is to concatenate entries of a related nature?
Here
in Ireland even reasonably small towns have several schools. Surely a
single
article can cover all the schools, with the individual schools getting
their
own articles if there is too much content for that parent article? If
there
are details added to Wikipedia for just one or two schools in an area, surely they can be added to a related more important article such as the town or area?
Oh, yeah. If the name isn't a redirect to a list of schools, it could be a redirect to the town. I believe there's quite a bit of this already.
There's a lot of ardent school includeletionists, but they're thrashing out the problem and hopefully wearying of the debate and editing other articles ;-)
- d.
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There would be nothing wrong, in my opinion, with district-by-district, or town-by-town, summary articles covering a set of schools for schools which aren't by themselves entirely completely highly notable. Including schools info in a small town's main article would also be a fine solution for smaller schools. A forest of redirects from a standardized school name format location to be named later to the town articles would work.
Perhaps, starting with a "Schools of (insert location name)" set of articles for each of the US city/town/CDP articles?
Perhaps, a workable policy that if a school article would truly be not much more than a stub, that it should live in a section of such a summary article, and that once it is established that it has sufficient notable characteristics that the section grows to the size that it would make a valid standalone article, it can be separated at that time?
I am not wedded to the idea of needing a separate article for each and every school in the US. I do think that the info should be included here, somewhere. A realistic policy that balances including the info and using fairly normal article size management process would be fine. But it would be terrible to do it in a messy hodgepodge manner; we should identify a pattern and establish a guideline, if that's going to happen.