Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/American Community School at Beirut (ACS Beirut)


 * 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The result was Keep (Nomination withdrawn without delete opinion) (Non-administrator closing). --Tikiwont 12:28, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

American Community School at Beirut (ACS Beirut)

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No sources, notability not asserted, I found nothing to show that this is a notable school. Brought here for discussion. OfficeGirl 17:56, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep, this is a well-known school of over a century's standing primarily serving the non-Lebanese diplomats, businessmen, and wealthy families who live in Beirut (once the "Riviera of the Middle East"). Among its grads is Stewart Copeland. history --Dhartung | Talk 19:22, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
 * If it is that well known, and it is known to you, perhaps you would do us the favor of finding us some Reliable Sources providing substantial coverage of this school? It is not enough that notable people graduated there.  Notability is Not Inherited.  Thanks.OfficeGirl 19:36, 16 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Keep AfD should not be used for starting discussions, thats what the article discussion pages are for, if you have concerns about the article put a note on the discussion page and add a tag asking for references etc, or you could do the work yourself, a quick search on Google would have returned enough useful links to see that AfD is not deserved. (I don't think there is a prize for getting articles deleted) A quick 15 minute search produced the following links: Lebanon, Beirut: American Community School, US State department page, ACS history prepared by ACS staff, English schools.org a directory for expats, 100th annivesary speach US Embassy Beirut, graduation speech US Embassy Beirut. Other items with regards the US community and the school can be found here. This school is also known as the "American Community School Beirut", "American Community School of Beirut" and simply the "American Community School", searching with different key words will likely return more hits. —Preceding unsigned comment added by KTo288 (talk • contribs) 21:18, 16 September 2007 (UTC) KTo288 21:26, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
 * I haven't even registered a !vote. If you will place at least one reliable source showing significant coverage to this school on the article I will be more than happy to withdraw this nomination.  I'm easy to please, really. OfficeGirl 21:29, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

Nomination Withdrawn. Thank you kindly to the users who have added reliable sources. OfficeGirl 11:18, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep. Mentioned in about 165 of the books archived on Google Books and no doubt in others not archived there. Called "influential" by this one (p. 488). --Delirium 08:00, 17 September 2007 (UTC)


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