Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Spratton Hall 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The result was Nomination withdrawn, article redirected. I am still unconvinced that this school is notable enough to justify inclusion at all, but a redirect will do no harm. JamesBWatson (talk) 07:39, 25 February 2013 (UTC)

Spratton Hall School

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This does not satisfy any of the notability guidelines. This is a British preparatory school. For any non-British person who doesn't know, that means a private school which takes pupils up to either age 11 or 13 - in this case the range is 4 to 13. Consensus has long been that schools for this age range are not by default notable enough for an article, and there is absolutely nothing whatever to suggest that this is in any way an exceptional school. I put a PROD on this article back in 2011, and never went back to the article again until today, when I found that DGG, who tends to be rather towards the inclusionist end of the spectrum, had removed the PROD with edit summary "merge to locality, as usually for such aschools [sic]". However, that is missing the point: schools run by what in the USA is called a "school district" are commonly merged to an article about that school district. Schools in a country such as the UK, where there is no such thing as a school district, are sometimes merged to an article about the local council or the area which the local council governs (though this is much less satisfactory, as it tends to give undue weight to a school, which is a much smaller proportion of the whole council's concern than it would be of a body that just runs schools). However, the school in this case is a privately owned business, and does not have a suitable public body to be merged to. JamesBWatson (talk) 21:03, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:07, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:08, 22 February 2013 (UTC)


 * Redirect to Spratton. The key content had already been merged included prior to this discussion and a redirect plainly meets WP:Redirect. This can be speedily disposed of, I suggest. TerriersFan (talk) 20:43, 23 February 2013 (UTC)
 * I have compared the content of the article Spratton Hall School with recent edits to Spratton, and I can't see that the content added to the latter came from the former: it looks to me quite independent. Nor have I managed to find any source of content of Spratton in earlier versions of the school article. However, I may have missed the particular edit where content was merged, so I will be grateful if anyone can provide a diff. The section of Spratton about the school in unsourced. I also see no reason to think this fairly small (400 pupils) private lower school is in any way remarkable, and it is not clear why it should be considered notable enough to warrant a section in that article. JamesBWatson (talk) 17:25, 24 February 2013 (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.