Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Portland High School

Organisations vs. buildings
I don't know of an article that is about a school building though some school articles do have interesting information about their buildings. Double Blue (Talk) 00:13, 7 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Portland High School, Portland, Maine is not an abstract, it's a building in Portland, Maine that serves as a school. Schools are like grocery stores, office buildings, and restaurants; they're buildings that serve a specific purpose. While the purpose is notable and encyclopedic, every building (or institution, if you prefer) that serves the purpose is not. -Soltak 00:18, 7 August 2005 (UTC)
 * A school is no more a building than a government is its legislative building. Double Blue  (Talk) 01:09, 7 August 2005 (UTC
 * I'm afraid that's a point we'll just have to agree to disagree on. For me, at least, I know that when I went to school the building was the school and the school was the building. As far as government is concerned, the legislative building is the headquarters, the meeting place. The business of government can be conducted elsewhere, the business of a formal education, by definition, can only occur in a school building. -Soltak 04:22, 7 August 2005 (UTC)
 * How very strange. I seem to recall at least one of my classes taking place entirely outdoors -- and that was before I started homeschooling. --Carnildo 04:31, 7 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Homeschooling is irrelevant to this and any other debate dealing with the notability of an individual school. An article on homeschooling would be great, but it has nothing to do with the debate of school inclusionism. As far as outdoor ed is concerned, I had to take the class, too. It was still managed completely by my elementary school and wouldn't have taken place without that institution's planning (it took place in the field next door, by the way). -Soltak 04:38, 7 August 2005 (UTC)