Talk:Downtown Community School

Contested deletion
This article should not be speedily deleted because it is not eligible for speedy deletion as it is a school. &mdash; Matthew@voorsanger.net (talk) 17:33, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Being a school does not exempt it from Notability requirements. — cocomonkilla | talk | contrib 17:47, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

As I add references I believe it will become clear that the school meets the Notability requirements.--Matthew@voorsanger.net (talk) 17:52, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

I would request to have the speed deletion notice removed since as a school this article is not eligible for speedy deletion.--Matthew@voorsanger.net (talk) 18:08, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

I attended DCS and have done a little research and I must say that the school is of such cultural importance that the page should not be deleted. And there is much more to put on the page, for example: SOME of the famous people whose children went there: Margaret Mead, Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones), Sidney Janis (one of NYC’s major gallery owners), Peter Udell (Broadway musical writer of Shenandoah and Purlie, among others), influential choreographer Sally Gross, and Dr. Henry Feingold, one of the country’s foremost Holocaust scholars and authors; plus many more. My sources for all these names besides Mead's are my personal knowledge of the kids in my own class there. Mead's info comes from one of her major biographies: Margaret Mead: a Life, by Jane Howard. And, along with Pete Seeger, the school had other important teachers, visitors, and missions, and its location (across from St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery, which the school used as its playground) made it a vital part of NYC's Village culture at a vital time. Many of its alumni as well are now important contributors to New York’s (and the nation’s) life. And again, my source for this info is my personal knowledge of my classmates' lives. (User_talk: Wells Conn) 21:41, 10 June 2015 (EST)Wells conn (talk) 01:47, 11 June 2015 (UTC)