Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bentley School

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The result was delete. Consensus is that sourcing is of insufficient quality and independence. Star Mississippi 04:23, 30 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Bentley School[edit]

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Non-notable private school, doesn't meet WP:NORG. Found no useful sources in Google, Google Books, Google News. Article also appears to have a long history of COI edits from staff members. Drm310 🍁 (talk) 15:08, 15 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Schools and California. Skynxnex (talk) 15:50, 15 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Education-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 20:42, 16 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
There are lots of news clippings in Newspapers.com because of its long history as a school (going back to 1920). Cielquiparle (talk) 20:49, 16 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Keep it's still a real place - there are lots of schools on wikipedia - if you're finding issues with WP:POV it would be best just to edit the article instead of deleting it. Marleeashton (talk) 09:01, 17 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Marleeashton: Existence doesn't equal notability; evidence of extensive third-party coverage does. Cielquiparle indicates there is a source that might provide it, although it appears that it's behind a WP:PAYWALL. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 18:05, 17 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I have an account with Newspapers and here are the clippings the links will easily convert into references.

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/113220462/bentley-school-for-girls-boys/

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/113220577/bentley-school-90th-year/

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/113220683/students-jump-rope-to-raise-hearty-donat/ Marleeashton (talk) 19:14, 17 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. I’m sorry, even the newspaper articles read like an advert for the school. I agree with nominator, do not think this school is notable. Yes, it exists, but so do thousands of other schools. Are we going to list them all? Equine-man (talk) 08:47, 18 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that two of those articles do not count toward notability. The problem is that there are so many others in the first few decades, it will take some time to go through them all. I can't say I'm particularly excited about this article though, so it's quite low on my priority list for research. Equally WP:IDONTLIKEIT isn't sufficient justification for deletion. Cielquiparle (talk) 11:19, 18 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Sourcing sufficient to meet WP:GNG as with pretty much any other secondary school in the English-speaking western world. -- Necrothesp (talk) 15:05, 18 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:49, 22 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - Agree with nom and User:Equine-man. The second Newspapers.com source provided above even says "Our rigorous academic program...." so clearly a PR piece. I also did a Google News search and did not find anything but a blurb in an article about Bay area schools handling COVID and another about a teacher charged with molestation. Neither provide in-depth coverage about the school which fails GNG, much less NCORP which I think is the more relevant notability guideline given it is a private school. S0091 (talk) 19:42, 28 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - fails NSCHOOL and my standards for schools for want of reliable sources. Bearian (talk) 14:42, 29 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.