Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dubai English Speaking School


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The result was   merge to Dubai English Speaking College. causa sui (talk) 21:00, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

Dubai English Speaking School

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Primary schools are generally redirected; and this one seems to call for the usual treatment. Epeefleche (talk) 04:51, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Redirect to an appropriate target, per established consensus that only very rare K-8 schools are notable, and only when there are outstanding independent reliable sources documenting their historical or architectural significance.  Cullen 328  Let's discuss it  06:31, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of United Arab Emirates-related deletion discussions.  —Tom Morris (talk) 11:23, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions.  —Tom Morris (talk) 11:23, 25 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Redirect to Al Nasr, Dubai, and add a section there about the school. K-8 are rearely notable, onlyy when they have architectural or historical significance. Buggie111 (talk) 15:09, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Merge. There are two schools of the same name, one offering primary education and the other offering secondary education. The two websites can be seen here: http://www.descdubai.com/. It should be renamed as Dubai English Speaking College. There are independent sources such as the inspection report: http://www.descdubai.com/inspection_report/DESC%20INSPECTION%20REPORT%202010.11.PDF. It is quite unsual to find an English speaking school which also offers an Islamic education which makes the school notable in its own right. Dahliarose (talk) 17:12, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Hi. This article is specifically about the school.  Check the EL and ref in the article.  The school itself does not meet our notability criteria.  There is, as you point out, a distinct entity which is the college.  The college does indeed appear notable, and one could write an article about it, but that is not this article -- that would be a new article, with content and refs related to the college.  IMHO.--Epeefleche (talk) 19:27, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I've just discovered that there is in fact already an article for the Dubai English Speaking College so I would just that the best solution would be merge this article for the junior school with the existing article for the senior school.Dahliarose (talk) 11:55, 26 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Redirect per standard practice for non-notable elementary schools. Carrite (talk) 20:07, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
 * [previous statement redacted] Unscintillating (talk) 21:03, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Merge to Dubai English Speaking College as per Dahliarose. Unscintillating (talk) 01:48, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Merge and/or redirect to the most appropriate target per standard procedure. Non  notable schools are generally  not  deleted; instead,  as demonstrated by 100s of AfD closures, they are redirected to  the article about  the school district (USA) or to  the article about  the locality (rest  of the world). --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 07:09, 30 December 2011 (UTC)


 * NOTE for closer: If this AfD is closed as 'redirect', please remember to include the  on  the redirect  page. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 07:09, 30 December 2011 (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.