Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Norwood College


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The result was   keep. (non-admin closure) – Davey 2010 Talk 05:33, 25 March 2015 (UTC)

Norwood College

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I was bearing in mind WP:SCHOOLOUTCOMES, but I couldn't even find out enough to identify if this was a high school or not. I couldn't identify a good redirect target either. I couldn't establish that this meets WP:ORG or WP:GNG. Boleyn (talk) 19:17, 16 March 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete Keep per SCHOOLOUTCOMES, I guess. There's enough proof the school existed, but the existing reference implies it was a "small private" school. Clarityfiend (talk) 20:18, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. N ORTH A MERICA 1000 21:26, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions. N ORTH A MERICA 1000 21:26, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
 * Keep - Being "small" or "private" is not the question — nor is being defunct. Being a high school (or higher) of confirmed existence is the important thing. This clearly did exist. Now, was it a high school? Almost unquestionably. Forgive the paywalled links but THIS from the Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer Wednesday 14 December 1938 indicates that the school had an orchestra and a dramatic society. And THIS from the same publication of Monday 15 September 1952 indicates that students of the school passed the "Cambridge General Certificate" and "Northern Universities General Certificate." Ergo, keep per longstanding consensus at AfD that high schools (and by extension colleges) of verifiable existence are presumed notable. Carrite (talk) 20:31, 20 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep I have improved the article with more information about the "college". It seems to have been the equivalent of a K-12 private school. It had lower, middle, and upper schools; the upper school prepared students for the General Certificate of Education, which is comparable to a high school diploma. Per SCHOOLOUTCOMES this defunct school would have been notable, and thus still is. --MelanieN (talk) 05:46, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment WP:SCHOOLOUTCOMES is significant here, but it is not a guideline, but an essay on how AfDs tend to go (correct me if I'm wrong). WP:SCHOOLOUTCOMES is clear that any high school still needs to meet WP:ORG / WP:GNG. Hopefully the new sources can go at least some way to demonstrating that though. Boleyn (talk) 07:39, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, &mdash; Coffee //  have a cup  //  beans  // 00:26, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep – per new sources. WP:SCHOOLOUTCOMES does mention WP:ORG, but in the end says that high schools are kept if there are more than zero independent sources. There seems to be an intent to treat high schools as inherently notable, so for consistency I guess this is a keep. – Margin1522 (talk) 04:00, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
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