Talk:Escondido school knives case

Notability
Pinging CometEncke. I don't see why this local story about students being suspended and/or expelled from school merits a place in a global encyclopedia. This happens on a daily basis around the US and the world; even this exact situation (students being punished for accidentally bringing weapons to school) is not uncommon and occasionally results in local protests or hearings, but rarely if ever has lasting notability. Reading the notability criteria for events I'm having a hard time seeing how this qualifies, especially if the students are not being expelled. 331dot (talk) 16:23, 13 February 2016 (UTC) From that same page:
 * Diversity of sources. Linked from the article, we have NBC, CBS,, a highly-ranked national online magazine (Reason (magazine)), and a major local newspaper. Also Fox (not linked).
 * Duration of coverage. We have this since Jan. 27.
 * Lasting effect is presently unknown. There is obviously considerable pushback against zero-tolerance. Such pushback has led to policy changes in other cases. Whether this particular case will lead to changes is at this time unknown.
 * Geographical scope -- Reason is national. The others are local. The California policy is obviously statewide. As some of the other links I've provided show, many other states have similar policies.

I will add, though it is obviously just my unproven personal expectation at this point, that I would expect more of this type of coverage sooner or later. The Reason article linked above was the first example of that. I could be wrong, but I believe it will not be the last.CometEncke (talk) 16:52, 13 February 2016 (UTC)
 * The "NBC, CBS", etc. are the local stations for those networks, not their national news or national coverage(I don't think NBC Nightly News will be covering this). This incident also doesn't seem like it will lead to major policy changes even just in California, as the students are not being expelled and are returning to school, which seems to have been the primary demand of people protesting this. 331dot (talk) 17:01, 13 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Yes, I understand that and was not trying to hide it. There is now some more coverage, but I guess that's more relevant at the merge proposal. CometEncke (talk) 11:15, 14 February 2016 (UTC)
 * I wasn't claiming you were hiding anything, just pointing it out. 331dot (talk) 11:58, 14 February 2016 (UTC)