Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Avenir School

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The result was redirect to Strathcona, Vancouver#Education. Mark Arsten (talk) 04:35, 10 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Avenir School[edit]

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WP:NSCHOOL. No reliable sources. Not known nationally. --K.Annoyomous (talk) 11:56, 21 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. The website for this school says that it began offering a full time curriculum in fall 2011 and as of fall 2013, it offers classes up to grade 12. [1][2] It appears to be an alternative school for gifted kids. I haven't yet found any information on how big it is; here's the Google Street View for the address given on the website, which is (part of) a small office building (you can see the school's banner in the picture). [3] I am a strong supporter of our very generous customary standards for high schools, but I suspect this one may be too small and obscure to survive unless some reliable source coverage turns up; so far, I've found only some calendar listings on local Strathcona websites. --Arxiloxos (talk) 16:29, 21 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Comment The nominator's mention that WP:NSCHOOL, a subsection of WP:ORG requires "national coverage" led me to find that that guideline is in the midst of a smoldering edit war which seems to be stripping away any presumption of notability, with statements on the talk page that notability for schools might be based on their being one of the "nation's 50 best" or some such blue ribbon criterion, as if we were a "Michilin Guide to High Schools," with some calling for very difficult requirements to avoid a high school article being deleted. It is hard to apply a guideline which is in a slow edit war. There seems to be one viewpoint present among AFD editors and perhaps a different one among those who contribute to the guideline talk page. Edison (talk) 20:56, 21 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of British Columbia-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:05, 22 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:05, 22 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, SarahStierch (talk) 01:26, 28 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, SarahStierch (talk) 01:05, 5 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to Strathcona, Vancouver#Education where there is sufficient content. This is a school of just 11 pupils [4]. While it theoretically educates to Grade 12 there is no evidence that any pupil is currently in classes above Grade 9 so it is not a verifiable high school. The Whispering Wind (talk) 02:26, 5 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect per Whispering Wind's helpful data and well-reasoned suggestion.--Arxiloxos (talk) 19:02, 5 December 2013 (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.