Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Midlands School District, Arkansas


 * 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) Peter Karlsen (talk) 01:46, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

Midlands School District, Arkansas

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This school district only became briefly notable for the single event of the existence on the board of one Clint McCance who became notorious for homophobic remarks on Facebook, and who has been pressured into resigning.. Otherwise it is a non notable school district like all the others Fiddle Faddle (talk) 21:52, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep In past AFDs, we have redirected or merged countless articles about elementary schools to their school districts. Articles for deletion/Common outcomes says "Schools that don't meet the standard typically get merged or redirected to the school district that operates them (North America) ..." Past practice has thus implied de facto notability of school districts. Various states have hundreds of school districts with individual articles. I cannot recall an AFD which deleted an article about a public school district. A school district typically satisfies WP:N and WP:ORG via multiple reliable and independent sources having significant coverage. Some behavior of a school district official which got widespread news coverage should not get undue weight in the article about the district, but that is a matter for the normal editing process rather than deletion. Edison (talk) 23:07, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep it is a school district that covers and entire American county. It educates hundreds, is a major employer and landholder. It operates (arguably) the largest 'business' in that county. How is it not notable? Paul, in Saudi (talk) 01:55, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep. CUSD has its own page, it's not prodded or AFD'ed or anything, but strangely, it's less notable than Midlands SD. T3h  1337   b0y  03:40, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep as per Edison. Edward321 (talk) 02:22, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep per Edison and past precedent. It's procedure to merge elementary schools that aren't notable by themselves to school district articles such as this. Please clean the article up a bit. Vodello (talk) 03:15, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
 * (I have tried to clean it up, but gee their web site has very little you can hang your hat on. It is very important to stick to the strictest facts. I hope at least there are no mistakes.) Paul, in Saudi (talk) 09:44, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions.  —• Gene93k (talk) 14:48, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Arkansas-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 14:49, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep, governmental entities such as school districts are notable. Nyttend (talk) 00:24, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
 * For what are they notable? Fiddle Faddle (talk) 12:47, 31 October 2010 (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.