Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Birmingham Covington School


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The result was redirect‎ __EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__ to Birmingham City School District. Sourcing is insufficient depth. History remains under the redirect should that change Star   Mississippi  14:34, 29 April 2023 (UTC)

Birmingham Covington School

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Fails GNG, source in article is primary, BEFORE showed normal local school news and database entries, nothing that meets WP:IS, WP:RS, with WP:SIGCOV addressing the subject directly and indepth.  // Timothy :: talk  17:06, 21 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Education, Schools,  and Michigan. Shellwood (talk) 17:11, 21 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Birmingham City School District . My searches failed to turn up the sort of in-depth coverage that would satisfy WP:GNG. The best I found was this (part 2/part 2), this, this, and this, but none of these seem to have the required depth. Cbl62 (talk) 18:39, 21 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Redirect - as an ATD per above. He seems to have it covered. 69.92.163.38 (talk) 02:59, 23 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Comment: no objection to a Redirect to Birmingham City School District.  // Timothy :: talk  15:18, 24 April 2023 (UTC)


 * There are a few reasons why I believe BCS passes Notability specifically. Clearly, it is a state building and school, and I do not believe it needs to completely adhere to general notability guidelines. It does have a few articles written about it and/or providing significant historical details about it:
 * This SciOly article about BCS
 * This article about the history of Birmingham schools, BCS being a Birmingham school
 * This article from Hometown Life about BCS
 * This article about a BCS teacher, Rick Joseph
 * This article about U.S. New's ranking of the top 50 Michigan schools
 * Secondly, it is a Michigan school with 630 some kids coming from and to every single week, 5 times a day. I believe that BCS should be considered notable enough to have a page, this is not counting some of the notable BCS alumni. BuiltByBromine (talk) 17:41, 26 April 2023 (UTC)
 * The first source you offered is a non-working link. Do you have a link that works? Cbl62 (talk) 18:44, 26 April 2023 (UTC)
 * As for the second source, the history of Birmingham schools doesn't even mention Covington except in a directory at the end of the article, simply noting that it transitioned to a 3rd-8th districtwide school in 1995. This is not the depth of coverage that would be needed to support a stand-alone article. Cbl62 (talk) 18:47, 26 April 2023 (UTC)
 * The third source does have depth of coverage, but I'm not familiar with hometimelife.com or whether it qualifies as a reliable source. Cbl62 (talk) 18:50, 26 April 2023 (UTC)
 * The fourth source is something I saw in my search. The article is about an award-winning teacher. Iffy to me as to whether this qualifies as coverage of the school where he worked. Cbl62 (talk) 18:52, 26 April 2023 (UTC)
 * It's not. It's been held here on Wikipedia for years that individual achievements of students and staff are not the achievements of the school and shouldn't even be mentioned in a school article. Also, i believe "Hometownlife" is an advertising rag and as such not reliable. 69.92.163.38 (talk) 13:40, 28 April 2023 (UTC)


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