Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Edwin Markham Elementary School

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The result was redirect to Hayward Unified School District. Stifle (talk) 10:47, 8 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Edwin Markham Elementary School

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This article does not meet requirements for WP:NOTE OpenInfoForAll (talk) 18:35, 29 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of California-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 19:51, 29 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 19:51, 29 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
delete if it were Markham High School, it would be an automatic keep according to Wikipedia custom but elementary schools really have to prove strong notability to be kept. This school is not notable. Spevw (talk) 20:13, 29 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Hayward Unified School District as is usually done for elementary schools. Edison (talk) 21:13, 29 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
'According to the article, this school is closed.OpenInfoForAll (talk) 00:45, 30 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete No claim of notability is asserted for this closed elementary school. Cullen328 (talk) 01:32, 30 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect per Edison--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 02:52, 30 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete -- notability not demonstrated in a reliable secondary source. N2e (talk) 03:23, 31 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - normally I would say 'merge and redirect', but as this school is defunct, has neither special notability nor historical importance, and as the article is a stub, there is little reason for it to be kept. Kudpung (talk) 18:29, 31 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Rename to Edwin Markham Elementary School (Hayward, California), redirect that page to Hayward Unified School District, and convert Edwin Markham Elementary School to a disambiguation page that points to the various school district and city articles that list elementary schools with this same name: Hayward Unified School District, Pasco School District (Washington), Vacaville, California#Elementary schools, Mt. Lebanon School District, and any others that I have overlooked.
A quick look at the Google search results doesn't show any good hits on this school (if such hits exist, it would require a more focused search to find them, since cruft like greatschools.org, city-data.com, and various Wikipedia mirrors gets top billing in the search results lists for school names -- and fills many pages of results). However, the Google results show the existence of several schools by this same name, including Wikipedia articles that list individual schools. Edwin Markham#Legacy indicates that a total of 5 schools in California were named for him; I also noticed one in Florida.
Eliminating the link to the school district would not be appropriate; many school district articles mention or discuss defunct schools because there often is a lot of historical or alumni interest in the defunct schools. --Orlady (talk) 15:44, 2 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Merge & Redirect - Since it doesn't meet WP:GNG on its own, in the pasts the general consensus has been to take useful information and place it into the parent article of the school district and redirect it to that parent article until which time sufficient information is found to establish notability and thus the article can be recreated as a WP:SPINOUT. Although it is not currently active, I don't believe that should have any bearing as to whether it can meet notability guidelines or that it shouldn't be mentioned in the parent article. If that were the case, there are many articles about relatively non-notable ships that have long since meet the scrappers torches that shouldn't have articles. The fact that several hundred (if not thousand) individuals have passed through those institutions should be enough to meet WP:LOCAL. --RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 23:26, 2 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete and Merge to the district article. There is no current indication that this school meets notability requirements. LonelyBeacon (talk) 23:28, 2 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Rename and RedirectAfter reading several of the arguments, I support Orlday's idea.OpenInfoForAll (talk) 02:47, 4 February 2011 (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.