Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Birchland Park Middle School


 * 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 redirect to East Longmeadow School District.  Sandstein  20:32, 11 February 2021 (UTC)

Birchland Park Middle School

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Lack of WP:RS and fails WP:NSCHOOL — Amkgp 💬  17:57, 4 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. — Amkgp  💬  17:57, 4 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Massachusetts-related deletion discussions. Robert McClenon (talk) 18:21, 4 February 2021 (UTC)


 * Delete - Does not satisfy school notability. With no references, is not likely to satisfy notability.  Robert McClenon (talk) 18:22, 4 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete - Fails the GNG since there are no references. I'm not finding any suitable redirect targets, either. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 18:58, 4 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Redirect to East Longmeadow, Massachusetts for the reasons above. Well-intentioned article that does not meet our standards for inclusion. ‡ Єl Cid of Valencia  talk  19:29, 4 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Redirect: to East Longmeadow, Massachusetts, which one would think was a pretty obvious target.   Ravenswing     20:08, 4 February 2021 (UTC)
 * I have no problem with redirecting there if a mention of the school is added to the article. Otherwise, the redirect is of no value to the reader. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 20:43, 4 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Merge to East Longmeadow School District (new stub). East Longmeadow, Massachusetts is not obvious target; for all articles about elementary and middle schools in the U.S. at least, which don't meet wp:GNG on their own, there should not ever be AFDs because how to handle them is clear:  merge/redirect to school district article.  This has been established forever and I am amazed to show up occasionally and again see AFDs like this running.  AFD is not needed at all, just exercise some editing discretion.  (Is the deletion nominator just trying to run up a score?)
 * Public school districts in the U.S. at least are always wikipedia-notable, they are organizations with taxing authority. This school mentioned there now.  No need for sources to be included in article;  sources exist.  "Merge" not "redirect" because material from this article was not present in the merger target when this AFD was started, and there is more to merge over. --Doncram (talk) 01:06, 5 February 2021 (UTC)


 * Redirect to East Longmeadow School District. Now that a school-district-level article has been created, it is the correct target, as explained by Doncram. I see no need to merge, however: The information in this article is entirely unsourced, and in any event minutiae about one school aren't germane to the broader topic of the school district. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 01:26, 5 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Redirect to school district or Delete under WP:TNT and create a redirect to school district. Only value of having anything here is as a plausible search term.  Content about this school, if any, belongs in school district article.  Unless... unless we are all missing something and this school meets WP:GNG.  But there is nothing, zero, zilch, nada in the current article that would have the article survive WP:A7 if schools qualified for A7-speedy deletion, much less WP:Notability.  davidwr/  (talk)/(contribs)  02:19, 5 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Redirect to East Longmeadow, Massachusetts as per all above. Akronowner (talk) 05:40, 5 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Any particular reason that the town is a better redirect target than East Longmeadow School District? davidwr/  (talk)/(contribs)  16:48, 5 February 2021 (UTC)
 * - note that the school district page was created on Feb 4, about 40 minutes after I made my redirect suggestion above. I assume other users are taking my lead on that so I feel responsible. ‡ Єl Cid of Valencia  talk  20:51, 5 February 2021 (UTC)


 * Blocked sock. MER-C 12:54, 8 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete schools in the US below the high school level are almost never notable and nothing suggests this is one of the super rare exceptions to that guideline.John Pack Lambert (talk) 20:00, 5 February 2021 (UTC)
 * For the benefit of anyone looking at this AFD in the future, there are two somewhat-common exceptions: Notable school buildings such as those listed on the National Register of Historic Places - but only when the article is primarily about the building itself - and schools that have won very prestigious national awards, like those with the highest recognition from the National Blue Ribbon Schools Program.  Numerically, these are rare, but when do show up, there's a good chance there is "significant coverage" from "reliable sources" where the sources and the content are "independent" of the school, which is the wiki-definition of WP:Notability.  davidwr/  (talk)/(contribs)  20:21, 5 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Redirect - there are no citations to merge, and precious little text. Bearian (talk) 20:29, 5 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Extremely Strong Delete One sentence, no sources or evidence of notability. To be honest this could be a speedy delete. Blubabluba9990 (talk) 14:11, 8 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Under what criterion? Extraordinary Writ (talk) 16:39, 8 February 2021 (UTC)
 * The page is one paragraph long, and the page itself does not describe any reason for notability, nor does it have any sources. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Blubabluba9990 (talk • contribs) 01:14, 9 February 2021 (UTC)
 * For better or worse (I'd probably tend toward the latter), schools aren't subject to WP:A7. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 01:18, 9 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Redirect to East Longmeadow School District per above. Fails GNG, ORGCRIT, no claim towards NBUILD. This is a normal school, not an encyclopedia topic.  // Timothy :: talk  23:07, 8 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Redirect per above. Just an average school. — Alalch Emis (talk) 11:53, 11 February 2021 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.