Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/MS 180


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The result was delete. T. Canens (talk) 01:18, 9 February 2018 (UTC)

MS 180

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This seems to be a typical non-notable middle school. The two references in the article are just a Google Maps link, and a two-line entry in what looks like a school directory website. My own searching finds no better sources.

The article is badly written; some parts in first person. That's not a reason to delete, but if this were kept, the article would probably have to be rewritten from scratch. -- RoySmith (talk) 19:36, 1 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. Jack Frost (talk) 06:18, 3 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of New York-related deletion discussions. Jack Frost (talk) 06:18, 3 February 2018 (UTC)


 * Comment I'll leave it to others to decide what to do with it—it doesn't seem all that different from any other middle school and I didn't find much coverage, but schools seem worth having information about somewhere on Wikipedia and I didn't quickly spot a good merge target (presumably the school district), or an article about middle schools in the Bronx (rather than the category. Interestingly New York City Department of Education has 'see also' links to List of public elementary schools in New York City and List of high schools in New York City but I don't see anything for middle schools). I've tidied up the article a bit so if it does end up staying at least it'll be neater. Mortee (talk) 07:41, 3 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete This article provides no evidence of notability. The Banner talk 09:43, 3 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete. Our established practice of almost always keeping high school articles as if they were notable, in order to avoid thousands of contentious AfDs  has a flip side: almost always deleting middle school articles. It was intended as a compromise. If the compromise should break down, then it will be time to try to find sources for articles like this. Based on experience from before we had the compromise, I could probably do it about 1/4 of the time--possibly 1/2 tyhe time in NYC. But I think it  better to concentrate efforts elsewhere  DGG ( talk ) 18:08, 4 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete Agree with arguments by DGG. Antonioatrylia (talk) 19:49, 8 February 2018 (UTC)


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