Talk:List of schools in Nigeria

Please add this
Holy Saviours High School, Ile-Oluji Ondo State 1975 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.205.162.78 (talk • contribs) 15:24, 12 June 2007
 * Done --EarthPerson 22:01, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

This will be huge...
I have some thoughts on this article. Please keep in mind, I'm not a member of WikiProject Nigeria or WikiProject Schools. I think that if it ever is complete, it would be so large as not to be useful. In the article Ondo State is says Ondo State contains the largest number of public schools in Nigeria - over 880 primary schools and 190 secondary schools. That is 1,070 schools just for Ondo. Do you think the project would best be served by having separate articles on Schools in (Nigerian state name). They could all link from this article. But this would duplicate some of what is in List of universities in Nigeria, Category:Universities and colleges in Lagos State, Category:Schools in Nigeria, Category:Universities and colleges in Nigeria and other articles. What do others think? --EarthPerson 22:49, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm not so sure it would be worth the effort. As has been established at articles for deletion multiple times, primary and secondary schools are not automatically notable. Furthermore, Wikipedia is not a directory. The majority of these will never have articles, so why list them? I think we should just stick to the schools which are notable for something, anything at all, as opposed to making it an indiscriminate list of all 10,000+ schools. Picaroon (Talk) 22:57, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Okay. I agree it would be a herculean effort.  We can stick with alphabetical order for now.  Do we need a Nigerian expert for the pruning?  --EarthPerson 23:21, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I think the name of the article should be changed to "List of Secondary Schools in Nigeria" --Bioye (talk) 10:42, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

Sorting
I have sorted the schools by state, and removed primary schools with the exception of one or two which had Wikipedia articles about them. Note that my sorting may be wrong; those schools where the state was mentioned I sorted there without double-checking, and for the rest I used Google. I am not an expert on Nigerian geography. I have removed external links. Please amend and edit the list as appropriate. --Bonadea (talk) 09:45, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Addition
Hi please add this school in Ibadan - Oyo State as well

Orogun Grammar School, Orogun-Ibadan 19900 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.178.201.63 (talk) 15:12, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

mawo iternaational school,dutenkura minna —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.78.58.118 (talk) 22:17, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

mawo iternaational school,dutenkura minna —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.78.58.118 (talk) 22:17, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

mawo international school,dustenkura minna —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.78.58.118 (talk) 22:20, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

Time to split the list
At 146kB this list is now too long for many mobile devices, or those on dial-up (like many in Africa) to download. As can be seen above, splitting the article was discussed in 2008, when the article was only 9kB long - it is now over 16 times longer. I propose the list is split into individual states, and this page is reduced to an index of those sub-lists. There are also other lists, such as List of schools in Lagos, which only list those schools in the city of Lagos, not the entire Lagos State - we need to decide how these will be integrated into the hierarchy. - Arjayay (talk) 12:30, 20 October 2014 (UTC)