Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Harvington 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. Liz Read! Talk! 05:10, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

Harvington School

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This article on a primary school is sourced to two inspection reports and the school's own website. I have carried out WP:BEFORE and not found any independent sources to add. I do not think the article meets WP:GNG or WP:ORG. It has been tagged as needing more citations since January 2021. I cannot see any obvious merge candidates. Tacyarg (talk) 19:39, 23 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Education, Schools, United Kingdom,  and England. Tacyarg (talk) 19:39, 23 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Comment: when you say you did a WP:BEFORE check, did that include looking under the former name "Heidelberg College"? I also see this report on the 125th anniversary in MyLondon. StAnselm (talk) 20:00, 23 August 2022 (UTC)
 * It looks like the article is going to take some work, though: here's two reliable sources saying it was founded in 1893: StAnselm (talk) 20:07, 23 August 2022 (UTC)
 * The other school name variations to search for included "Harvington College", "Harvington Prep", and "Harvington Preparatory", and given that the school's history spanned over a century, it was absolutely essential to search across multiple databases and books (as StAnselm did). Cielquiparle (talk) 23:34, 3 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Yet another variation is "Harvington Girls' School" which seems to have been used briefly during the Fookes years. Cielquiparle (talk) 13:19, 4 September 2022 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz Read! Talk! 20:46, 30 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep: it passes GNG merely through its inclusion in books about Ealing (of which there are many): Ealing in 50 Buildings and Ealing Through Time. StAnselm (talk) 20:11, 23 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Are theese more than passing mentions? if so, i'd vote keep as well. Handmeanotherbagofthemchips (talk) 14:47, 31 August 2022 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.


 * Keep in light of numerous in-depth sources found by about this 132-year-old school, as well as others such as this 1940 article on Harvington School re-opening and changing leadership/direction following its WWII evacuation, and this 1959 obituary about the former headmistress, which includes extensive detail about the school's evolution over the 48 years she was headmistress. Harvington Prep also received extensive media coverage on its April 2022 announcement that it would merge with nearby Durston House in September 2023. I have now rewritten and expanded the article significantly, so that it no longer reads like an advertisement (which was a serious problem previously), and have also included enough historical detail to potentially justify keeping this article even after it merges with Durston and "disappears". Cielquiparle (talk) 23:31, 3 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Found yet another in-depth article published in 1970 when the headmistress retired and the parents formed a trust to purchase the school, which includes a lot of rich historical detail now cited within article. Cielquiparle (talk) 10:36, 4 September 2022 (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.