User talk:Avjensen

Speedy deletion of Tauhei Combined School

A tag has been placed on Tauhei Combined School, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read our the guidelines on spam as well as the Wikipedia:Business' FAQ for more information.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Lastly, please note that if the article does get deleted, you can contact one of these admins to request that a copy be emailed to you. Excirial ^{(Talk,Contribs)} 10:15, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Tauhei Combined School

Please explain why Wikipedia has a link to Tauhei Combined School http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_schools_in_Waikato,_New_Zealand though do not want the data I have supplied entered? I have just tried to contribute well researched data about history and contact details however you have still deleted it.

Please check out other schools e.g.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tauhara_College

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taupo_Intermediate

and let me know what we have done wrong.

THANKS Annette

Articles for creation

I have declined the article, but added some explanation of why. See Wikipedia:Articles for creation/Today#Tauhei Combined School (I guess the page will move at the end of the day, so you might have to check the backlog at Wikipedia:Articles_for_creation#Older_submissions depending on when you read this, or see a direct link to my comments at [1]).

In general, primary schools are not considered sufficiently notable to have articles on Wikipedia. There is some debate on the inherent notability of schools, but most of the debate is on whether secondary schools are inherently notable or not. See Wikipedia:Notability (schools) for a suggested guideline, and see the talk page for further discussion.

To address your two examples of articles on other schools: Tauhara College is a secondary school, and there article includes a reference to a newspaper article. It certainly could be better referenced, but is at least of average quality compared to other New Zealand secondary school articles. The article on Taupo Intermediate School is most likely there because no one has nominated it for deletion. If you look at the history of the article you will see that I added the infobox and some sources, which should improve its survival chances, but it would be difficult to defend in a deletion debate. I rarely nominate school articles for deletion myself, but I pick my battles when it comes to articles others have nominated. I don't mean to make the process sound like a war zone - we're all here to build an encyclopedia, and there's room for collegial disagreements in the best way to do so.

It is generally accepted that any locality is inherently notable, and I have a long-term goal of writing an article about every locality in New Zealand which has at least a primary school. I have almost finished writing articles about each such locality in Northland; you can see the results by following the links from List of schools in Northland, New Zealand. Almost all the articles there about areas with primary schools only have been written by me, and I have included a link from the primary school to the locality. The most recent article I have written is Pipiwai. You'll see that I am scrupulous about sourcing every statement in the article.

You are welcome to create such an article on Tauhei, including material about the local school. If you live in the area, you may be able to get a book on local history from the library and add significantly more detail. See Hukerenui for an example of an article I was able to write in much more detail, because I had a local history. If you do write this article, drop me a line on my talk page and I'll try to help with any formatting issues.

Finally, I think the deletion of the article on the school you wrote earlier was for the wrong reason; the article was clearly not spam.-gadfium 20:02, 9 May 2008 (UTC)