Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sheth G. H. high school (Borivali east)


 * 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. -- Cirt (talk) 00:16, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

Sheth G. H. high school (Borivali east)

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This appears to have been a non-notable charter school in India. I say "appears", because much of the text is nonsense, and the place is not mentioned anywhere. It lacks specific identifying information. A Google search failed to verify its existence. From what is in the article, it makes a claim that it used to exist, and was a middle school operated by some company or association. There are textual clues that it was a middle school that used to be in India. I can't imagine that this would be considered notable by the community. My suggestion is to delete this now. Bearian (talk) 22:02, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions.  -- Jclemens-public (talk) 00:06, 24 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions.  -- Jclemens-public (talk) 00:06, 24 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Weak keep. Based on other Indian high school articles that have passed our way at AfD, I think there may have been some misunderstanding about this one.  The article refers to the schools as "Gujarati Medium", "English Medium", and "Marathi Medium".  That doesn't mean middle schools, it means the schools teach (or taught) in those languages. Here is the website of the Borivali Education Society, (named in the article) which lists this school as "Seth Gopalji Hemraj High School".  Google searches turn up lots of mentions of the school and even a map: the WP:RS status of these mentions is certainly debatable, but the school's existence seems not to be.  Under the usual practices applicable to schools whose existence is verified, including the desire to avoid systemic bias, I suspect this should be kept. --Arxiloxos (talk) 03:26, 24 November 2010 (UTC)
 * If you can, please fix it by adding those and suggest a move. Bearian (talk) 18:12, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 01:24, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Keep It is very well established that all secondary schools are considered notable here, because it is almost certain that sufficient references will be found. In this case, it will be rather difficult finding them, since the school was apparently more important in an earlier generation than it is presently, and among the most difficult areas for people at the enWP to work on is older material from India--very little is on the internet, there is no adequate periodical or newspaper indexing in any language, and there are almost no sources available outside the country--in the US in particular, library holdings are amazingly weak.  All that is necessary to keep the article is to verify the real existence of the school--we have occasionally found articles on high schools whose actual existence we could not verify, and those articles are of course uniformly deleted, as have been articles on high schools that are still in the planning stage.   The original article did not even do that, but Ariloxos has  been able to find sources that are good enough for that purpose, and I added them. I also moved the article to its proper name, as they indicated. It is clear from the sources that it is not a middle school.    DGG ( talk ) 17:36, 6 December 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.