Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Local Education Agency


 * 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. Yunshui 雲 水 09:20, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

Local Education Agency

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This article is little more than a dictionary definition. jamacfarlane (talk) 03:30, 25 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 06:04, 25 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Education-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 06:04, 25 March 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete - honestly, this is likely a notable subject. But as the nom said, it is little more than a dictionary definition. That could be fixed, but as it exists, it is so shallow and incomplete as to be a disservice to our readers. WP:TNT does apply. John from Idegon (talk) 09:32, 25 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete I was going to !vote "keep" as an obviously notable subject, until I realised that the notable subject I was thinking of was a local education authority. The Local Education Agency article's reference to the term's usage in the UK is —that site seems to be down at the moment, but using the Wayback Machine to look at the site from the given access date, I can't see any use of "Local Education Agency" on the site.  Moreover, I can't find any evidence that the initialism is used in the UK to mean an "agency" rather than an "authority", so I think the part about UK usage should be removed, and I'll go ahead and do that once I've published changes on this.
 * However, removing that text leaves the article as not just a dictionary definition but an unreferenced one. There are references online to reliable sources for the definition (e.g. ), but little else that I can find, leading me to suggest deleting per WP:NOT.  If not deleted, the title should be changed to be decapitalised, per WP:NCCAPS. — Preceding unsigned comment added by YorkshireLad (talk • contribs) March 25, 2020 (UTC)
 * I live in the UK and have never heard of a local education agency (as opposed to authority). A Google search of "gov.uk" sites produces 83,900 results for authority and 4 for agency (not 4,000, just 4). jamacfarlane (talk) 09:19, 26 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. YorkshireLad  ✿  (talk) 18:39, 26 March 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete as WP:NOTDICT, we could possibly have a redirect to Local education authority if editors believe this could be an alternative WP reader lookup term? Coolabahapple (talk) 22:54, 26 March 2020 (UTC)
 * I'd worry that redirect would be confusing: "local education agency" is a term that is apparently used in the US, whereas the article on local education authorities is from a solely England-and-Wales perspective (and the "agency" term, per User:Jamacfarlane, isn't really used in the UK). Redirect to School district, maybe? YorkshireLad  ✿  (talk) 08:48, 27 March 2020 (UTC)


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