Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Smyer Independent School District


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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) Extraordinary Writ (talk) 17:43, 11 November 2021 (UTC)

Smyer Independent School District

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Non-notable topic. All the sources I found on Google appear to simply provide information for someone wishing to attend school in the school district. ― Blaze The WolfTalkBlaze Wolf#6545 17:01, 4 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Education-related deletion discussions. ― Blaze The WolfTalkBlaze Wolf#6545 17:01, 4 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. ― Blaze The WolfTalkBlaze Wolf#6545 17:01, 4 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Texas-related deletion discussions. ― Blaze The WolfTalkBlaze Wolf#6545 17:01, 4 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep. I added some references. School districts are government entities and are usually notable. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 19:51, 4 November 2021 (UTC)
 * I would assume you'll continue to improve the article? In any case I"m just going to let this play out. I only nominated it because after attempting to find sources for it, I only found sources that would provide information for a parent wishing to have their child attend school in the district. ― <b style="background:#0d1125;color:#51aeff;padding:1q;border-radius:5q">Blaze The Wolf</b>Talk<sub title="Discord Username" style="position:relative;right:22q">Blaze Wolf#6545 19:55, 4 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep . I believe school districts are inherently notable per WP:GEOLAND and WP:SCHOOLOUTCOMES. Scorpions13256 (talk) 04:06, 5 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep. I concur with  that school districts have inherent notability, and for non-notable school articles our go-to decision is often to redirect to the district's article. I've added text and citations to the few Smyer Independent School District articles on newspapers.com. (I suspect that there must be more news articles, but apparently for smaller circulation papers, newspapers.com apparently only indexes Sunday papers, so historical news on weekdays is not online.) At any rate, it now meets WP:GNG.  — Grand&#39;mere Eugene (talk) 05:28, 6 November 2021 (UTC)
 * I wasn't actually the one that said it has inherent notability. ― <b style="background:#0d1125;color:#51aeff;padding:1q;border-radius:5q;">Blaze The Wolf</b>Talk<sub title="Discord Username" style="margin-left:-22q;">Blaze Wolf#6545 14:18, 6 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Apologies! Of course I meant to ping, but many a slip 'twixt cup and lip... — Grand&#39;mere Eugene (talk) 14:47, 6 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Usually, when you see a newspaper only indexed weekly, it only published weekly. I've run across papers that only published on Thursday, for instance. Sammi Brie  (she/her • t • c) 21:23, 7 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Comment: So, a sidebar: Yes, some publications publish only weekly, but the History of Avalanch-Journal indicates in 1922 the Lubbock Avalanche began publishing "daily (except Mondays)".  Following a 1926 sale it merged with its rival, the Daily Journal to become the Avalanche-Journal. That publication '"flourished even during the Great Depression". I suspect, though, that newspapers.com probably had an incomplete set of Avalanche-Journal newsprint to index, as February 1934 has only one Sunday indexed, and 1935 is missing April and December entirely. Before we had online services, libraries subscribed to periodicals and routinely sent them for binding, most periodicals once yearly, but for newsprint the binding schedule was usually once monthly. When microfilm, microfiche, and online technologies became available, the archives of newsprint were the sources for these new technologies, which had better indexing, took less storage space, and were less susceptible to damage and pilferage. But if those newsprint sources were incomplete, the online versions derived from them are necessarily incomplete. That's what appears to have happened with several years of the Avalanche-Journal.  So rather than implying a choice by newspapers.com to index only monthly, I should have said it was likely a case of indexing the available (incomplete) sources.


 * Keep I'm not sure I agree that school districts are inherently notable. That said, articles related to them are good places to redirect non-notable articles about schools and this case some references have been added since the nomination. So I think it's worth keeping. --Adamant1 (talk) 08:53, 8 November 2021 (UTC)


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