Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fulham Cross Girls 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   keep. KTC (talk) 20:12, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

Fulham Cross Girls School

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Non-notable, and is no different from any other girls school Davey 2010   Talk  22:55, 28 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep Generally, high schools are considered to be inherently notable, regardless of their individual notability. In the strictest sense, this is not a high school, but it covers at least part of the senior high age group, up to age 16, so I think it most likely falls under the "inherent" notability of high schools. Safiel (talk) 04:20, 29 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Comment — is there a policy stating that high schools are notable, or is it just that this has long been the accepted practice?  The Blue Canoe  17:20, 29 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Comment There is no formal policy to that effect, however, common results of AfD discussions concerning high schools has been that they should be considered as inherently notable. Safiel (talk) 18:48, 29 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Comment Refer to WP:HS and WP:NHS. These are Wikipedia essays and not official policy, but they describe what commonly occurs with high schools in AfD discussions. Safiel (talk) 18:52, 29 March 2013 (UTC)
 * From those linked essays: "Opinions presented at school AfDs in general range from the claim that all schools are inherently notable to the opposite claim that no schools are notable. Between these extreme—and unsupported—opinions, lies a broad middle ground: some schools are notable, some schools are not." "An article about a high school should only be kept if it can meet the criteria in the general notability guidelines. An article about a high school should contain information which has been covered by reliable, third-party sources." So, those essays do not really support the "inherently notable" claim.--Atlantima (talk) 23:31, 29 March 2013 (UTC)


 * Keep as a secondary school; but this together with Fulham College Boys’ School constitute Fullam College Federation, and a joint article should be considered.  DGG ( talk ) 05:28, 29 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 10:28, 29 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 10:28, 29 March 2013 (UTC)


 * Delete. No guideline or policy that I've seen supports the notion that secondary schools are inherently notable, and my search did not turn up much in the way of notability-establishment for this one. I found local news pieces (e.g., , ), some lists of schools that include this one (e.g. , ), whatever this is, and a Guardian piece that only really talks about the students' annoying behavior.--Atlantima (talk) 23:46, 29 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Comment Found what I missed earlier WP:SCHOOLOUTCOMES. This is at the Article for Deletions "Common Outcomes" page. And it states that most AfD's involving high schools end in keep. And pretty much every AfD on high schools that I have seen or participated in has ended in keep. Safiel (talk) 00:18, 30 March 2013 (UTC)
 * From that page: "previous outcomes do not bind future ones... Notability always requires verifiable evidence, and all articles on all subjects are kept or deleted on the basis of sources showing their notability, not their subjective importance or relationship to something else. All articles should be evaluated individually on their merits and their ability to conform to standard content policies... While precedents can be useful in helping to resolve notability challenges, editors are not necessarily bound to follow past practice. When push comes to shove, notability is demonstrated by the mustering of evidence that an article topic is the subject of multiple instances of non-trivial coverage in trustworthy independent sources."--Atlantima (talk) 00:24, 30 March 2013 (UTC)


 * Potential keep -- This is a high school, which we almost invariably keep. The article implies it is still going, but I am not clear how closely associated it is to the boys school.  If they operate together very closely, perhaps they should be treated as one school and merged, but that would require clear evidence of union.  Peterkingiron (talk) 17:42, 30 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep - Merging into a unified article on the umbrella organisation Fullam College Federation has merit but that is for post-AfD discussion. Meanwhile the planning document makes it clear that this school is an important part of H&F's education strategy. There is no good reason to delete an article on an important public institution. Careful expansion over time, to bring into compliance with WP:ORG, which is the way we develop stubs, is clearly the sensible way forward. TerriersFan (talk) 23:23, 1 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep, high school, appears verifiable and notable.  As for history, the work I did at User:Milowent/History of High School AfDs shows almost every high school (if verifiable) is kept at AfD.--Milowent • hasspoken  03:30, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep for my usual reasons. Verified secondary school. -- Necrothesp (talk) 22:01, 3 April 2013 (UTC)
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