Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/La Garenne 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   delete, with no objection to merging any relevant information and creating a re-direct. Jayjg (talk) 20:09, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

La Garenne School

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The article does not seem to assert any notability, and a lack of gnews and generally google hits for the school indicates the schools fails the WP:SCHOOL whoops WP:ORG policy. From the article, the school is roughly equivalent in terms to ages to a middle school, and thus does not enjoy automatic-highschool-notability. The article is also completely unreferenced.

On a fixable side, the article is written in a spammy manner by an SPA. Virtually all content edits (which include removal of COI/Advert maint tags were either done by or two IPs. OSbornarfcontribs. 14:23, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Switzerland-related deletion discussions.  -- OSbornarfcontribs. 14:23, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions.  -- OSbornarfcontribs. 14:23, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment Point of order: There is no policy or guideline called WP:SCHOOL. Many proposed policies and guidelines have failed to gain consensus. WP:ORG and WP:N are the relevant guidelines. In addition we can look at common outcomes for the defacto consensus that elementary schools typically get merged/redirected to the school district while public or large provate high schools get their own articles. Edison (talk) 17:36, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep, but do remove the promotional elements from the article. As an international school and a boarding school, this is not a run-of-the-mill elementary/middle school that is merely of local interest. It recruits teachers from the UK (|10557%2CJOBCATEGORYCODE|10510%26PageNo%3D1%26MapName%3DInternational&cur=8&rslt=19&UK=false here's a recruitment ad) and its students presumably are mostly the children of families living as expatriates in or near Switzerland. It's listed in travel guides (for example, according to the "families" tab on this page, it offers "holiday courses" to the children of families visiting local ski resorts) and guides for expatriates; I imagine that more substantial third-party coverage will turn up with a little effort. --Orlady (talk) 15:47, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment. I am neutral on this one, as I suspect Orlady is correct and that sources will turn up. I am too busy to look. However, I want to urge that this article is looked at very carefully from a copyright point of view. The very first sentence is almost the same as a sentence on the first page of the school web link in English. -- Bduke   (Discussion)  01:14, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
 * This article is blatant SPA spam, or at least an example of how the Wikipedia has been confused as being one of the hundreds of promotional school directory web sites. The school is WP:ROTM and offers absolutely nothing  that  most  schools of this kind do  not  already  propose for their students, and almost  all   recruit their teaches 'direct  from the UK' or other ntive English  speaking  countries, and advertise their jobs in  the TES and other educational  media. Therefore it does not, and cannot  stand out  as being  notable. Tourism guides and directories, and job ads have never been considered reliable sources. We'll be getting asked next to accept  [this] and the 114 other similar sites as a sources. Merge and Redirect. Kudpung (talk) 01:23, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Query: What article would you merge and redirect this to? --Orlady (talk) 23:50, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 01:17, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Delete Non-notable primary/middle school. --MelanieN (talk) 01:19, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete and then create redirect to Villars-sur-Ollon. Really, the "merge" is to have a line indicating this school is in/near the town. tedder (talk) 01:21, 18 February 2011 (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.