Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Turku International School


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The result was   Keep (non-admin closure), as notability has been confirmed via this discussion. Class dismissed! Ecoleetage (talk) 01:49, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

Turku International School

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fails WP:ORG no third party coverage indicating notability from Google news search. Michellecrisp (talk) 04:26, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep. Enduring public institution inherently meets WP:V. Furthermore, long established WP precedent supports the retention of articles about high schools - 1 or 2 minor exceptions notwithstanding. --Gene_poole (talk) 11:10, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep - both an international school and a high school. Sufficient sources are available to meet WP:N. However, we can't expect much in the way of news coverage in English for a Finnish school and time should be given for local searches to avoid systemic bias. TerriersFan (talk) 14:21, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Merge to Turku and/or Varissuo. While I have sympathy with Gene poole's point of view, lack of independent sources concern me. Let it await enough RS to justify an independent article. Double Blue  (Talk) 14:24, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep Above and beyond the general consensus and precedent regarding the retention of secondary school articles, the sources provided do support a claim of notability. I also raise concerns about systemic bias issues in that coverage of non-English language subjects and schools are given short shrift. My Finnish is rather poor and none of the translation sites handle Finnish to English automated translation yet. Alansohn (talk) 21:28, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep. Finland has a population of over five million and yet there are currently Wikipedia articles on fewer than 30 Finnish schools, a tiny proportion compared to the huge numbers of articles on American and English schools. This school is particularly notable because it is one of only two international schools in the entire country . A Google search reveals that there are a number of English-language sources, and no doubt many more Finnish sources will be available. Dahliarose (talk) 22:21, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep - There is third party coverage in Finnish, such as here and here. -- ざくら 木 14:22, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep. This international school is one of seven international schools in Finland and one of the two municipal international schools in Finland, although its senior high (lukio) is not actually part of this school. (In Finland, there are one private, two municipal and two state-owned international schools. In addition, one is owned by the state and municipalities and one by the German Federal Republic.) As such, it is a rather notable secondary school and an example of a municipal int. school. If high schools  --MPorciusCato (talk) 18:27, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
 * keep short, but referenced. Looks okay to me.--Paul McDonald (talk) 18:36, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions.   —TerriersFan (talk) 20:02, 1 November 2008 (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.