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.
Non-notable school. Seinfreak37 17:44, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep While I agree that schools are typically not notable, this is a school district. Soltak | Talk 18:47, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: So a district of non-notable schools is notable? -Seinfreak37 19:30, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: See my comment below. There are articles for many school districts in Canadian provinces, many with fewer students than the ESD. I recently finished adding remaining districts for New Brunswick and I can assure you, there are many which would not meet your standard for inclusion, but they do meet the standard for many others on Wikipedia.Plasma east 20:55, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I recognize that it's probably a stupid position but yes, I do think that a school district, even if it's completely composed of non-notable schools, is still itself notable. I guess I reach that conclusion because a school district is also a governmental division. Again, I recognize the hypocrisy inherent in my position and I apologize, it just is what it is. Soltak | Talk 22:30, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
No, I can actually buy that argument. I'm not sure that I agree with it, but I see what you mean. -Seinfreak37 15:00, 21 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Strong keep - This is a school district and not a school. It also happens to be the largest school district in the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island. .... Also, something was messed up with the original AFD tag as I edited the link to this discussion and it was placed under Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Non-notable school for some reason .... Plasma east 19:19, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Abstain. I accept Soltak's general comment that school districts, as a governmental division, may have notability even when the schools in the district are not themselves notable. Unfortunately, I don't find adequate references/sources provided by this article, which I think rather messes up this particular case. I'll brood on this and come back to this discussion if I have more coherent thoughts. WMMartin 14:51, 21 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Adequate sources are only pertinent to deletion debate when notability is at issue. There seems to be consensus that even if individual schools are not always notable, that information about them should be merged into an article on the school district or community. Therefore the way to address poor sourcing here is to find better sources and improve the article, not to delete it. --Dystopos 19:03, 25 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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.