Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Kinkaid School Archives


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The result was   merge to  The Kinkaid School. clear consensus that it does not warrant a separate article  DGG ( talk ) 02:54, 12 May 2012 (UTC)

The Kinkaid School Archives

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Archive of a local school. Any information here should be either merged to The Kinkaid School or deleted as not sufficiently notable. Travelbird (talk) 18:32, 28 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Merge—into The Kinkaid School. No notability can reasonably be expected for the archives, but since somewhere along the line we decided schools were notable, this can go into the article on the school.  Liv it ⇑ Eh?/What? 19:26, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Merge into the article on the school itself (much of whose history is replayed in this Archive article anyway). No evidence that the archives have independent notability; their existence can be covered by a sentence in The Kinkaid School article. AllyD (talk) 23:42, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 02:31, 29 April 2012 (UTC)

There are many schools and universities for which a separate page exists either for the libraries or the archives: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscripts Collection; Perry-Castaneda Library; and others. The Phillips Exeter Academy Libraries is a good example since it is also an independent high school for which a separate wikipedia page exists for its libraries. The archives of the Kinkaid School are notable particularly since they contain some records of President George W. Bush, a former student, and records of school founder Margaret Kinkaid, a historically notable individual in Houston. — Preceding unsigned comment added by HoustonGrl (talk • contribs) 16:42, 29 April 2012 (UTC) 
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 01:31, 5 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Merge It is just a kindergarten through 12th grade school. "Other stuff exists" is not a viable argument for keeping this article, but rather a suggestion that an AFD for Phillips Exeter Academy Libraries is needed. The argument also conflates a modest 160 thousand volume school library (at Exeter) with the mere archives of a lesser-known school, Kincaid. Fails WP:N. Edison (talk) 02:43, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
 * The Exeter article concentrates very largely on the building, which is very clearly notable as a building, and is too long to merge. An Afd would be foolish there, though the dorm articles in Category:Architecture of Phillips Exeter Academy do look ripe for merging to the main article. Johnbod (talk) 13:06, 11 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Merge. Large collecting archives are notable. Archives of single organisations usually aren't. The fact they may contain papers relating to famous people is neither here nor there. -- Necrothesp (talk) 08:51, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
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 * Merge per all. Johnbod (talk) 13:06, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
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