Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Frank B. Cooper School


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The result was keep. Can&#39;t sleep, clown will eat me 02:59, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Frank B. Cooper School

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Non-notable elementary school. No independent sources, no real claim of notability. Fails WP:RS, WP:N, and the proposed WP:SCHOOL. Inkpaduta 15:59, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete Its only an elementary school. --Djsasso 17:03, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete Completely non-notable elementary school. Soltak | Talk 00:30, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Strong keep notable historic school with history dated back to 1906, in the "early pioneer days of Seattle. Subject of multiple sources, including Seattle times . --Vsion 04:32, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Strong keep -- This school is of particular importance in Seattle both for historical reasons, explained above by Vsion, and for political reasons, as it was recently the center of a highly contentious fight over building closures within the Seattle Public Schools system. It is a prominent point within the West Seattle neighborhood. --Tjss(Talk) 19:03, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Strong keep -- This school holds high importance to the people of West Seattle, Washington as well as the Delridge, Seattle, Washington neighborhood, both as a landmark building and as the school that accepted the first Black teacher ever hired by Seattle Public Schools. --Irene Stewart 19:33, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletions.   -- Noroton 15:59, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep school is notable, article should stay, but needs a clean up and some more references LordHarris 17:04, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep this one, technically not multiple sources, but the Seattle Times coverage is a very substantial piece with the school as the central subject. Seraphimblade Talk to me Please review me! 17:15, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep but needs to be rewritten with a more encyclopedic tone. --Elonka 22:18, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Abstain. At present there is only one independent reference; our guidelines require more. I am, as it happens, confident that a suitable reference can be found, but this needs to be done before this debate terminates. My own view is that the assertion about Mrs Dewitty is not per se notable, unless she was also the first black teacher hired in the entire state: otherwise, we are setting a very low bar for notability as every other school district in the country presumably has a "first black teacher", as well as a "first female", "first jewish", "first openly gay", and so on. If the school district or city had a particular history of treating black people notably badly this would be more notable. WMMartin 14:35, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep - long history and notable features. TerriersFan 00:51, 1 March 2007 (UTC)


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