Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Timothy Christian School (Barrie)

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 delete. —fetch ·comms 01:20, 11 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Timothy Christian School (Barrie)[edit]

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Non notable Junior high school per WP:GNG Mo ainm~Talk 17:07, 3 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Strong delete as per nomination. Even considering to reinstate the speedy. ☭FryPod 17:37, 3 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Frypod (talk · contribs) has been blocked and has admitted to being a sock of a banned user. —Soap— 19:07, 7 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. The speedy deletion tag on the article was the A3 tag, which goes to articles with no content. The editor added the infobox and some information about the subject, which meant that there was now content and the speedy deletion (under that criteria) wasn't warranted - and I did not see another criteria that applied. So, I declined the speedy, while cautioning the editor to expand the article and add sources and document the notability. I also noted that K-8 schools are rarely found to be notable under our policies, and I don't see any evidence to suggest that there is anything unusual about this school that makes it any different. For my part, Userfication might be an option, to give the author a reasonable amount of time to work on a good attempt at an article - but, as I said, I don't think the subject is notable. UltraExactZZ ^Said~ Did 17:47, 3 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ontario-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 18:31, 3 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 18:31, 3 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as per nomination. Prsaucer1958 (talk) 18:50, 3 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. I fail to understand how secondary schools are assumed to be notable, while lower schools are not. But those are the guidelines and I see no point in expanding them. No speedy creteria apply. Hairhorn (talk) 01:30, 4 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comment To be accurate, as far as I know there is no guideline that says that secondary schools are assumed to be notable, and not lower schools, but that has become an accepted convention by consensus. I used to think that this was stupid until, in another AfD, a user gave me a link to an earlier discussion on the subject. Once I had read that discussion I decided that there were tolerably good reasons behind the convention. Unfortunately I can no longer remember either what the reasons were nor where the discussion was, which is not much help, but I thought it worth mentioning. JamesBWatson (talk) 11:13, 4 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Keep as there should be room in WP for an article on any school, even the most miserable little madrassa. Needs rewriting to be more informative. -Welhaven (talk) 18:38, 4 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete -- Google News Archive search comes up with nothing useful.^[1] --A. B. ^{(talk • contribs)} 19:30, 4 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to Barrie per usual practice. This is one of several schools named Timothy Christian School, and a couple of them have pages here on Wikipedia. However, the others include a high school, whereas this school is K-8. Under the usual consensus that means it is not automatically considered notable, it needs to meet the WP:GNG rule - and this school doesn't. Question: why is the infobox titled "Monsignor Clair School"? --MelanieN (talk) 13:57, 10 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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