Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Montgomery Upper Middle School

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was no consensus. T. Canens (talk) 03:32, 21 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Montgomery Upper Middle School[edit]

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Non-notable middle school (claimed awards are not distinguishing even if true). Per standard practice, should be deleted and redirected to town or district. ^Bongo_matic 14:11, 7 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of New Jersey-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 17:03, 7 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 17:03, 7 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep as a Blue Ribbon school. Blue Ribbon schools are notable. • Gene93k (talk) 17:11, 7 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

More than 3,000 schools have been given the Blue Ribbon . . . doesn't make them notable. ^Bongo_matic 17:28, 7 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Merge and Redirect or Delete - at any rate it is not notable, and this page reads like a homepage. (As for Blue Ribbon, do we really want Wikipedia ending up with 3,000 entries detailing the curricula etc for 8th graders?) NZ forever (talk) 06:53, 8 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to Montgomery Township School District per usual practice. Nothing particularly notable about this middle school. --MelanieN (talk) 19:58, 12 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:02, 14 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Blue Ribbon schools are indeed notable, as the government-organized award is the highest award any U.S. school can receive. Just because there are many schools that get this award annually does not mean that its significance is lessened; the U.S. has thousands of NRHPs, but they are all notable due to this designation and their historical significance. This school is obviously distinguished for its academic and educational excellence. —fetch ·comms 02:14, 14 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: As for Blue Ribbon, do we really want Wikipedia ending up with 3,000 entries detailing the curricula etc for 8th graders? The answer is yes, if all of those 3 000 individual entries are about notable subjects. Wikipedia is not a paper encyclopaedia.--Shirt58 (talk) 08:25, 14 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to school district per usual practice for schools under high school level. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 15:14, 14 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Merge and Redirect or delete - Per standard practice for non-notable primary schools. Carrite (talk) 23:53, 14 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep All Blue Ribbon schools are notable.
See CIBA cited as one of the best by Education Department from the Journal Inquirer, "The Blue Ribbon award is given only to schools that reach the top 10 percent of their state's testing scores ... It is considered the highest honor a school can achieve." That this school has received the highest honor an American school can receive demonstrates that it is notable. Cunard (talk) 06:26, 19 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

"considered" by whom? Do you seriously think that there are no honors for school above the top decile in a state?!?! ^Bongo_matic 08:36, 19 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I do not know of any honors above the Blue Ribbon Award for an American school. But I do know that multiple reliable sources attest to the fact that the Blue Ribbon Award is the highest honor an American school can receive. See this article from NJ Spotlight, this article from the Manhattan Mercury, this article from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, this article from the Abilene Reporter-News, this article from the Los Angeles Daily News, and this article from The Hartford Courant. Cunard (talk) 08:53, 19 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

If ten sources say that there is no higher environmental compliance certificate that may be awarded by the State of California to a car than the smog check (mandatory for all vehicles that use the public roads), does that make every vehicle that complies notable? ^Bongo_matic 09:57, 19 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You are comparing apples and oranges. Cunard (talk) 20:54, 19 September 2010 (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.