On 5 May 2006 at 12:57, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:

On 5/5/06, Steve Bennett stevage@gmail.com wrote:

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It just doesn't seem fair to delete an article on one school of a given type while keeping others. And I suspect "notability" there is very much dependent on the social milieu of the voters...

So you are saying there is no difference between Eton and Sacred Heart school, Nowheresville

There are some categories of things where having a complete set of articles on them would seem to be a net benefit, even if some of the members are of relatively questionable notability. One of them is the set of cities, towns, villages, hamlets, etc.; for the United States, these were filled in a long time ago by a robot, and having such gazetteer info handy can be useful even if some of the places are pretty marginal. Many of those geographical entries have since been fleshed out into well-done articles, but even the ones with just the raw data can be useful. Doing a similar thing with the places (however minor) in other countries would be a positive step even if some might call it "geocruft".

Similarly, it's good that there's an article on every one of the popes of the Catholic Church, even though some of the early ones have a pretty much complete lack of info about them personally or about any notable things they might have done while in office (if any).

I don't know whether schools are one of the things that falls into a similar situation, but there may be some who believe so.