Charlotte Webb wrote:
On 5/22/07, Angela Anuszewski
<angela.anuszewski(a)gmail.com> wrote:
My earlier reading made me consider whether or not
school districts
are notable simply because they exist, or some more significant event
or achievement should be required to create or retain an article on the
subject.
If a wealth of verifiable information about a school or district...
total enrollment, dropout rate, square footage of the facility, date
of establishment, geographical coordinates, mascot, sports team
uniform colors, number and average salary of faculty, nearest state
highway (most, if not all, of those will have articles)... can be
added to Wikipedia, any (inherently subjective) measure of
"notability" is not relevant.
I may be sceptical about some of the items on the list, but you are
definitely on the right track.
If it's only a small amount, more can
always be added later, particularly by somebody living in the area who
is more likely to have access to back issues of local newspapers,
which might not be available online, and could reveal additional
information — there may have been a shooting incident or other violent
crime on campus which was covered locally but did not attract national
media attention, as would probably be the case if no serious injuries
or deaths resulted.
If information exists, somebody will add it. Try not to be too quick
in completely writing off certain topics. Stub templates exist for a
reason.
Absolutely they become something to build on. A school article may only
have a few bits of basic data at the start, but that's a basic structure
on which someone can build in the future. Someone less familiar with
the basic structures will not be inclined to start an article from
scratch. In the early days all there was at [[Tucson, Arizon]] was
"Tucson is a city in Arizona." that was an excuse to edd, not to
subtract. We can expect that as Wikipedia gets bigger we will need to
pay attention to ever narrower subjects; that's just as it should be.
Ec