Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/BASIS Oro Valley

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The result was delete. -- Cirt (talk) 12:21, 19 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

BASIS Oro Valley

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I am also nominating the following related article for the same reason:

I'm offering this for discussion because I can't find a suitable criterion or rationale for CSD or PROD. This is not a mainstream secondary school - which would have been automatically de facto notable. It is possibly a commercially operated 'cram' school; all Ghits are to low level mentions in local press and one mention in a local government press release about a ribbon cutting ceremony. Kudpung (talk) 05:23, 11 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. —Kudpung (talk) 05:29, 11 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom, also this institution has had a number of unreferenced articles of questionable notability created about it by Ipodfanz (talk · contribs). WookieInHeat (talk) 05:35, 11 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete No evidence of notability. These are a couple of a series of articles, all of them essentially spam. JamesBWatson (talk) 11:51, 11 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - spam. Racepacket (talk) 00:01, 12 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - WookieInHeat has proded the BASIS Scottsdale article. There is also a separate article for the entire chain, BASIS schools. Racepacket (talk) 11:37, 12 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Arizona-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 16:57, 12 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. I get a very different impression of this material. These appear to be publicly-funded charter schools. Google News turns up dozens of hits. Here is an article in the Arizona Daily Star (Tucson) that goes into considerable detail about the Basis Schools[1]. It begins as follows:

The louder the national praise grows for Tucson's Basis Schools, the more some local critics question the reasons for its success. Basis Upper School, 3434 E. Broadway, is annually named one of the top public high schools in the country by Newsweek and U.S. News and World Report magazines, and this fall it was featured as a model for global education in a documentary film. But some local educators and parents say the school's enrollment practices make the school only marginally public, despite being taxpayer-funded.

There was a follow-up article on this topic in the same paper, published just this week[2]. Also, I found a 2004 column about the school in the Washington Post[3].

So what I see is a high school for which there is actual, not just presumed, notability--high rankings in the national magazines, national coverage, controversy of actual significance to educational theory. Maybe there is an argument to merge all the schools into a main article about the Basis Schools, but that would still not call for a delete at AfD. In short, this seems like a clear keep to me.--Arxiloxos (talk) 23:12, 15 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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