Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Memorial Drive Elementary 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 (non-admin closure). Refs that establish notability have been added. Ruslik (talk) 11:53, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Memorial Drive Elementary School

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This is an article about an elementary school whose only claim to notability is that 12 years ago it was listed as a (US) National Blue Ribobon school (according to, 4% of all US schools are listed as such). No other information about the school can be found in reliable, independent sources. The bulk of the information listed in this article is already in the parent article on Spring Branch Independent School District. Karanacs (talk) 02:28, 29 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete as nominator. Karanacs (talk) 02:28, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Spring Independent School District Spring Branch Independent School District since info is indeed already there per WP:SCHOOLS and precedent. Some will claim notability from its past Blue Ribbon award. Regardless, it isn't getting deleted and didn't need to be brought to AfD. TravellingCari  04:08, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Whoops my error. TravellingCari  04:38, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Correction: It is Spring Branch Independent School District- Spring ISD is a different district WhisperToMe (talk) 04:32, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Texas-related deletion discussions.   --  TravellingCari  04:35, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Education-related deletion discussions.   --  TravellingCari  04:36, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions.   —• Gene93k (talk) 10:13, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Merge to district. I'm surprised this one lasted from May until now.  Deletionists start drooling when they see a title that has phrases like "in popular culture", "list of" or "elementary school".  Mandsford (talk) 13:03, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep - as a Blue Ribbon school. Though it is fashionable to decry awards nonetheless it is the highest award given to a US school and being in the top 4% is notable. It also meets the draft guideline WP:SCL. TerriersFan (talk) 15:12, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
 * The WP:SCL proposal is marked failed. Karanacs (talk) 15:18, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
 * By just two editors and with discussion still ongoing on the latest draft. The fact remains that inclusion of Blue Ribbon schools survived all drafts and had consistent support. TerriersFan (talk) 15:34, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
 * It was failed when I first looked at it, and a read of the talk page shows that several editors called for it to be failed until you reopened it.  The talk page also shows several users expressing discomfort with having Blue Ribbon schools be highlighted as potentially notable. Karanacs (talk) 15:39, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Redirect to district: Being in the top 4,000 elementary schools doesn't strike me as particularly important, failing discovery of "other information" in "reliable, independent sources". CRGreathouse (t | c) 17:28, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep We have kept on the basis of blue ribbon status quite consistently in the past. Though we're not actually bound by precedent, Failure to have consistency is confusing to both readers and potential editors. Incidentally, i argued against such status being notability for a while, but was eventually convinced its sufficiently distinctive and discriminating as an award. DGG (talk) 15:47, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep, notability has been established, ergo no need to merge. Wizardman  22:06, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
 * The only independent sources that can be found about this topic verify that it is a school and that it won an award. No other detail is available.  All of that information is already in the parent article on the school district.  I checked the archives of the local newspaper, the Houston Chronicle, and they never reported on the Blue Ribbon award. the school gets only passing mention in their archives.  There is no "significant coverage", as WP:N requires, of the subject.   Even its proponents haven't found any. Karanacs (talk) 02:11, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes they did report the award. TerriersFan (talk) 02:29, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep While establishing notability for most elementary schools can be a challenge, recognition by the Blue Ribbon Schools Program is a strong claim of notability, and is backed up with reliable sources. Alansohn (talk) 02:30, 4 August 2008 (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.