Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Foldaskóli


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The result was   keep with no prejudice to a renomination if GNG is not met soon    Wifione    .......  Leave a message  05:32, 23 August 2011 (UTC)

Foldaskóli

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No notability for an elementary school. Vegaswikian (talk) 06:24, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Iceland-related deletion discussions.  —Tom Morris (talk) 07:53, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
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 * Delete per nom. -- Matthew Thompson talk to me bro! 08:16, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep This is the exception that proves the rule; a new component in the national curriculum was developed at the school, by two of its teachers, so there are in fact substantive mentions of the school in reliable sources. Also it is not just an elementary school: it is a Grunnskóli or Compulsory School, years 1–10, ages to 16, and therefore should fall under the well established more lenient notability policy for "schools that educate teenagers." I've rewritten the article (which was based on the history section of the school's official website) bringing it up to date, adding references and external links, and including a paragraph on the connection to Innovation Education. I've also added that to the lede. I haven't really rooted around in search of newspaper coverage in Icelandic; the alt. chars. and inflected forms make Google's coverage very poor there, plus many of the newspapers have taken their archives offline. But I'll see what I can find over the next few days to cement the case. Yngvadottir (talk) 19:24, 17 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: There are numerous mentions of the school in Morgunblaðið, including about its being the largest and the second largest school in the city in various years. I added information from there from an article about the annual competition in Innovation Education, which the school apparently began hosting years before the national curriculum was developed there, and it is still given as the location of the final invitational round in an undated English-language page on the Education Ministry's site, which I have also added as a ref. I believe there are now enough quality independent references to demonstrate notability. Yngvadottir (talk) 18:13, 18 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep. An important school because of the link with Innovation Education as described above. Dahliarose (talk) 21:19, 17 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep - played a significant part in Icelandic educational history. TerriersFan (talk) 02:12, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
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