Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Freshwater Elementary 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 Freshwater Elementary School District. joe deckertalk to me 06:33, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

Freshwater Elementary School

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K-6 school articles are generally not kept till notability is established. ♛♚★Vaibhav Jain★♚♛ Talk Email 09:08, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Redirect. Notability issue related to schools was not known since it has never come up before in my experience of editing. It seemed that a hundred plus year old institution of any type would merit an article since it exists. However, it will be easy enough to place relevant information about this school and the charter school in the article on the school district if necessary. No big deal. It is odd though that in other arenas or areas some editors go crazy creating articles about towns or places that do not exist or no longer exist by the hundreds and those articles must remain as ghost towns even if they do not exist and clutter up the encyclopedia. This is especially odd when many of these ghost towns have only one listing anywhere on earth - in an encyclopedia on place names, for example. There are a few inconsistencies in relationship to notability that lead to head scratching. As we approach 4 million articles, perhaps I am not the only one who wonders about this... Norcalal (talk) 09:23, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
 * We can easily include pertinent relevant information on this school in the district article. Barring notability not heretofore seen, I move that we close the discussion, delete the article and place the information in the district article. Norcalal (talk) 15:46, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Pertinent information related to the school has been placed in the district article. Norcalal (talk) 05:33, 20 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Keep. Please see Category:Public Elementary Schools in California for many other elementary schools in California with wiki pages. Also please see that many schools in California are stub articles.  I don't think elementary schools are automatically non-notable based on the preponderance of other pages about them elsewhere on the wiki.  Ellin Beltz (talk) 09:55, 18 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Redirect per standard practice for non-notable elementary schools. High schools have an extremely low bar to inclusion, elementary schools an extremely high one. I think this is a valid way to compromise the question of school inclusion. Having to suss out the notability or lack thereof of half a million elementary schools, or whatever there are on the planet, appeals to no one — it would be a vast drain of volunteer time. I will note, as an alumnus of Eureka High School, that last time I checked that link was red. Certainly there are a vast number of possible stories to mine in the archives of the Times-Standard and in local histories, etc. There's plenty of work to be done on schools without touching the hot stove of elementary schools, I guess is my point. Carrite (talk) 07:14, 19 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Hmmm, I see that Eureka_High_School_(California) shows blue. Well, I guess that's good news. There's MASSIVE room for improvement there, obviously. Carrite (talk) 07:17, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of California-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 14:44, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 14:44, 19 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Redirect to Freshwater Elementary School District, common practice for non-notable elementary schools. This school lacks non-trivial coverage by reliable sources. The rationale for keeping stated above is WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS, which is weak. • Gene93k (talk) 15:02, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Redirect per usual practice. I really thought there might be some coverage of this school, since it is more than 100 years old, but I could find no recognition of it as historic at Google, Google News or Google Books. Looks like a merge of information to Freshwater Elementary School District has already been done. And now I see why it is not listed anywhere as historic: the current school building was built in 1952, apparently nothing remains of the original buildings. --MelanieN (talk) 00:28, 21 March 2012 (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.