Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lynchburg City Public Schools


 * 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The result was   withdrawn at nominator's request. Neutralitytalk 06:14, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

Lynchburg City Public Schools

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While the individual schools may be notable, this article is simply a list that is not needed. I don't think this is an official school district per say (note that it does not contain all the schools found here), and therefore consists basically of WP:OR.  Nolelover  Talk / Contribs  02:31, 3 June 2011 (UTC) Nomination withdrawn, since Postdlf has demonstrated that this is a real school district, and not just a list of schools within a city, as I first thought.  Nolelover  Talk / Contribs  21:11, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete No indication of notability and contradicts information outside wikipedia.Curb Chain (talk) 03:56, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Virginia-related deletion discussions.  —• Gene93k (talk) 15:09, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions.  —• Gene93k (talk) 15:09, 3 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep, Lynchburg City Schools appears to be a genuine public school district (see official website and state DOE evaluation), and such government units are notable. And if this is a valid topic, then any problems are fixable through normal editing and don't require deletion.  The article's list of schools further correspond to this list and only omit non-standard schools such as those for alternative education, which can obviously be added to the article easily, so I don't see what the nom's problems are with even the current state of the article, and it is far from indiscriminate.  The link the nom presents doesn't support any of his points either; it's the maps for school attendance zones, which any school district that has more than one school at a certain grade level is going to have to divide attendance.  So I don't see what "information outside Wikipedia" contradicts this article.  postdlf (talk) 16:47, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the state DOE link, that works for me.  Nolelover  Talk / Contribs  21:11, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep I agree with the comments of Postdoc that the districts website agrees with the article, See Articles for deletion/Common outcomes, which says "Most elementary (primary) and middle schools that don't source a clear claim to notability are now getting merged or redirected in AfD. Schools that don't meet the standard typically get merged or redirected to the school district that operates them (North America) or the lowest level locality (elsewhere) rather than being completely removed from the encyclopedia. Most independently accredited degree-awarding institutions and high schools are being kept except where they fail verifiability." This appears to be such a verifiable school district. Unless the consensus of editors here at AFD has changed, it iss appropriate to keep the article. Edison (talk) 18:57, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment I added the three missing schools and a link to the district's website. It took 9 minutes. (I must be slowing down). Does that satisfy the problems seen by the nominator and Curb Chain, the only delete !voter? Edison (talk) 19:09, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
 * What you added really didn't matter to me, just that this was found to be a real district (which I know are kept).  Nolelover  Talk / Contribs  21:11, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep - As a general matter of practice, we keep secondary schools and degree-granting institutions and redirect pages on elementary schools to general pages on school districts — like this one. Carrite (talk) 20:20, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep - Legit school district. Virginia has a weird thing where moderately sized cities (~40-50k people) are considered counties in their own right.  Thus lynchburg has it's own school, police, etc.  Oddly enough, these independent cities are sometimes the county seat for the surrounding county even though the city and county are separate counties.  Sailsbystars (talk) 22:50, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Ahh, thanks for explaining that. The "Lynchburg City Public Schools" was what first made me think this was just a list.  Nolelover  Talk / Contribs  23:21, 3 June 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.