[WikiEN-l] School Districts and notability

[Will Beback]

Christopher G. Parham wrote:
> On 5/22/2007 5:27 PM, Andrew Gray wrote:
>   
>> I've said it before and I'll say it again - we need to think about
>> maintainability in a concrete sense as well as "notability" in an
>> abstract one. If an article is going to need maintenance, but it isn't
>> going to get it, it becomes a net liability to the project...
>>   
>>     
> If maintenance is the problem, it would seem that tools like 
> semi-protection would be more useful than deletion. If an article 
> (school or not) is clearly poorly monitored, and is prone to receiving 
> damaging vandalism (especially of the BLP/personal attack variety), I 
> wouldn't be at all opposed to semi-protection in that case.
>
> --Chris
Permanent semi-protection may be a better solution than merging schools 
articles into school district articles. It would require a small 
amendment to the protection policy but would be less disruptive overall.

Will Beback