Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of schools in Harris County, Texas

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The result was keep. Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 11:39, 23 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

List of schools in Harris County, Texas

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This would be better served as a category than a list. Harris County is quite large, and it is unusual to see any source discuss "Harris County schools" in general. Most sourcing for this would be synthesis - source Z says that school A is in city B, source Y says that city B is in Harris County, therefore school A must be in Harris County. The sources currently listed (used as part of the synthesis) are self-published anyway. Karanacs (talk) 19:58, 16 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Categories suck. Nevertheless, both categories and lists can co-exist. Harris County (Houston, TX and suburbs) has lots of independent school districts Harris County, Texas#Education , so a list that can avoid being too indiscriminate or too much like a directory can be a useful navigation tool. Mandsford (talk) 22:17, 16 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Keep as the Houston, Texas area is notable for its plentitude of parochial schools and charter schools. A list can be compatible to a category. Bearian (talk) 01:16, 17 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Lists work well, especially for schools that won't have articles. (example: "Foo Elementary has 420 students..") tedder (talk) 01:40, 17 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. —• Gene93k (talk) 01:44, 17 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Texas-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 01:44, 17 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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Keep lists and categories serve different purposes, have different strengths and weaknesses and often work best together. Thryduulf (talk) 11:44, 19 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Weak delete Certainly there are lists with less notability than this that live in WP so I'm not going to suggest that this one is less notable than most. But Karanacs is right that to make this list complete it would have to be huge. The question here is what is the real educational value compared to trying to keep the huge list up-to-date? A list of school districts in the county is perhaps bordering on a lack of sufficient merit. But IMHO listing each and every primary/secondary school in a county is a bit over the line. The category, though it obviously is not designed to serve the same purpose, is sufficient in a situation like this. --Mcorazao (talk) 19:14, 20 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Weak keep - does not cover parochial and private schools. They should be added or the list should be renamed "List of Public Schools in Harris County, Texas" Racepacket (talk) 23:00, 21 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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