Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Baramaricha Delwar Hossain High School

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The result was merge‎ to Sitalkuchi#Education. Sourcing is insufficient for a separate article Star Mississippi 03:59, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

Baramaricha Delwar Hossain High School

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Fails WP:NSCHOOL, user is creating a large number of these. Theroadislong (talk) 12:01, 26 October 2023 (UTC)

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Education, Schools, and West Bengal. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 12:20, 26 October 2023 (UTC)
• Comment You say they are making a large number of these. I could only see that they have created 2 pages. Did you mix that up with someone else? Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 22:25, 27 October 2023 (UTC)

  Initial searches show next to nothing except by a plain Google search, and that doesn't yield anything reliable. The school's website is only accessible from an archive.org link and provides little. The school seems to exist but English language sources are lacking. It may be there are sources in another language? Also is it possible that the school goes by another name in sources? I tried some obvious variations. Strongly inclined to delete at this stage, but will wit to see if anything else turns up. Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 22:36, 27 October 2023 (UTC)

  this is the current school website: https://school.banglarshiksha.gov.in/ws/website/index/19031008502 😎😎PaulGamerBoy360😎😎 (talk) 03:15, 29 October 2023 (UTC)

  Thanks. This page contains the claim it was founded 1872, and It was recognised as a High School w.e.f 01/01/1984. The name of the school from Maricha High School to Baramaricha Delwar Hossain High School(H.S.) in the memory of the first Head Master Late Delwar Hossain. The school was upgraded to a higher seconday[sic] school in the accademic[sic] session 2004-2005. It is not clear if the name was changed in 1984 or more recently but the name change helps explain the lack of sources. Searches on "Maricha High School" turn up two book mentions, but these are directories, and one news mention. We are still well short of WP:SIGCOV but there may be non English coverage, and there are search variations to try still. Can anyone help with non English searches? Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 08:42, 29 October 2023 (UTC)

  Also Due to the Fact That it has been a State School, Elementary School, Junior High School, & High School throughout its history makes it even more complicated to find sources, we would have to search "Maricha Elementary School", "Maricha State School", "Maricha High School", "Marica Junior High", and the same searches i just said but replace "Maricha" with "Baramaricha Delwar Hossain", and I don't think any of us have time to individualy perform that task, It would require a large Task Force. 😎😎PaulGamerBoy360😎😎 (talk) 20:43, 29 October 2023 (UTC)

  But I feel like we should make a task force for it because of this: "Baramaricha Delwar Hossain (X+2) High School , the oldest educational institution of Coochbehar Dristrict, situates under Sitalkuchi Block of Mathabhanga Sub-Division. It is named in memory of Delwar Hossain, was an asstt. teacher of the school."😎😎PaulGamerBoy360😎😎 (talk) 20:47, 29 October 2023 (UTC)

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Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Daniel (talk) 20:04, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

• If notability cannot be established merge verifiable content and redirect to Sitalkuchi#Education as the lowest level locality. Baramaricha village would have been preferable. Rupples (talk) 01:59, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

●Keep- The sources cited prove the school is notable, but due to the name changes in its history we would need a big taskforce to find sources to improve the article. 😎😎PaulGamerBoy360😎😎 (talk) 18:54, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:56, 9 November 2023 (UTC)

●Comment- We need someone to help with finding non-english coverage, and possibly finding offline coverage. 😎😎PaulGamerBoy360😎😎 (talk) 01:45, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

• Merge to Sitalkuchi#Education per Rupples. There is a problem with Indian schools in that we often cannot locate the sources to show notability for schools that would likely be found to be notable if they were in, say, the US. I am reluctant to !vote delete for schools that I feel should be notable, but the question is always whether an actual encyclopaedic page can be written about the subjct. In the absence of sources, the answer to that is no. There is a small amount of verifiable information on this page that can be preserved in the encyclopaedia with merge as a WP:ATD. Furthermore, placing it on that page is perhaps better. The merge will create a redirect there, so searches for this page will work and the information here will be placed into a context that is useful to the reader. This would be wiyhout prejudice to the possibility of re-creating the page from the redirect in the future should sources be found sufficient to demonstrate notability and write the page encyclopaedically. Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 08:41, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

  We have enough sources to keep, this following quote proves that it is notable: "Baramaricha Delwar Hossain (X+2) High School , the oldest educational institution of Coochbehar Dristrict, situates under Sitalkuchi Block of Mathabhanga Sub-Division. It is named in memory of Delwar Hossain, was an asstt. teacher of the school." 😎😎PaulGamerBoy360😎😎 (talk) 15:56, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

  That source is from blogspot (self published, not reliable) and looks neither independent nor secondary to me. The fact it claims to be the oldest school in the district might be indicative of notability, and I acknowledge that above. But my other comments pertain. We don't actually have any suitable sources. Sorry. Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 23:04, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

  ●Keep or Merge- Although I would prefer to keep this page I do admit the chances are very slim of us finding anyone to help with non-english & offline sources. I would not be satisfied with a redirect though. 😎😎PaulGamerBoy360😎😎 (talk) 03:02, 11 November 2023 (UTC)

• Merge to Sitalkuchi#Education only properly sourced information into target, if WP:IS WP:RS with WP:SIGCOV addressing the subject directly and indepth to support a stand alone article are found it can be recreated.  // Timothy :: talk  03:01, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

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