Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Schools

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Primary and secondary schools

S. B. Deorah College

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No WP:SIGCOV sources were found, so the subject fails to meet GNG, and thus also fails WP:NSCHOOL. GrabUp - Talk 14:03, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Assam and Schools. GrabUp - Talk 14:04, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: Recently deleted via G12 while it was in AfD; a redirect was created by Pharoh, but Goswami21 recreated the article. GrabUp - Talk 14:08, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
8 citations including 2 given by you, removed the history section which lead to speedy deletion, added college website link, digital library link, modified the article, what else do I need to do to remove this deletion tag... Goswami21 (talk) 14:49, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Goswami21: The subject fails to meet WP:NSCHOOL and is not notable enough to have a standalone article. These sources do not provide in-depth coverage of the subject at all. Additionally, the college website and government sites are WP:PRIMARY sources, which do not contribute to notability. You cannot remove the AfD tag; it will be removed by the closer after a consensus is established. GrabUp - Talk 16:22, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
8 citations which I have provided, are well enough to support the article as well as the content of the article... and Btw the article "B. Borooah College" has no objections despite of having almost 90% of the citations are from different sections of their college websites and the article "Arya Vidyapeeth College" also doesnt have any objection... almost all the citations are either from college website or from other government sites like ugc, gauhati university, etc. so why only this article... if there should be a tag... it should be for all the colleges... I can also give citations from the different sections of my college website but as you have said it is unreliable source... I havent... so if it doesnt contribute to notability... so how their college websites contents does contribute to notability and not mine... Goswami21 (talk) 16:39, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Goswami21: Please don’t give WP:WHATABOUT arguments here. If you think any other article fails our notability guidelines, you can nominate it for AfD. I agree that the majority of Indian college and school articles do not meet notability guidelines, but they were not deleted because no one nominated them. You said I can also give citations from the different sections of my college website can you please disclose your connection to the subject? Why did you say my college? GrabUp - Talk 17:08, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Different sections of colleges websites has been used as citations by almost all the college articles under Gauhati University... But you said these do not contribute to notability, and btw I Graduated in Chemistry Honours in July 2024 from this college, thats why I referred as my college. Goswami21 (talk) 21:27, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Read WP:PRIMARY. The source is connected to the subject as in this case its own website, which is why it do not contribute towards notability. GrabUp - Talk 03:08, 17 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Yagyavalkya Institute of Technology

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Hardly to meet WP:SIGCOV. Fails WP:GNG. Rajeev Gaur123 (talk) 01:53, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete. Page does not satisfy the notability guidelines for organization. Poor sources on the page with no significant coverage. Fails WP:NSCHOOL. RangersRus (talk) 13:42, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: Unable to find any SIGCOV Bernie Clay Bear (talk) 01:06, 17 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: I noticed some media coverage for this topic available on their website here. However, as the article has been unsourced for several years, I attempted to add references and make improvements. If the consensus leans towards deletion, I suggest moving the article to the draft space instead. This would preserve the work done so far and allow for potential future updates, especially if significant coverage emerges later. Alternatively, the draft could be moved to my sandbox for further development.
Delete, per others. I'm also unable to find any WP:SIGCOV. Svampesky (talk) 13:15, 17 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Kilbil St Joseph's High School

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Fails WP:NSCHOOL. Only a primary source provided. 4 google news hits, none indepth. LibStar (talk) 00:35, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete. I was unable to locate any sources. Fails WP:SIGCOV.4meter4 (talk) 00:46, 15 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Adamas International School

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This article about a school has been tagged as unreferenced since 2019. I have carried out WP:BEFORE but cannot find independent, reliable references to add to the article. I do not think it meets WP:GNG, WP:NSCHOOL or WP:NCORP. The school was established in 2004 so it may be WP:TOOSOON for notability to be established. No obvious redirect target - the one for the locality is a stub. Tacyarg (talk) 15:22, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Comment: As per their website the school is affiliated with Indian Certificate of Secondary Education and Cambridge International Education. Maybe a redirect to one of these will be better per WP:ATD. GrabUp - Talk 15:28, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Delete: There is not even a single reference.--Indian Agent (talk) 23:36, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. No sources on the page. WP:PROMO. Page does not satisfy the notability guidelines for organization. No significant coverage. Fails WP:NSCHOOL. RangersRus (talk) 13:44, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Macalester College Observatory

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Beyond the single primary reference to the observatory's homepage, the only sources a WP:BEFORE search turned up were very small newspaper items, like this two-paragraph one for the opening, that lack enough detail to meet WP:SIGCOV. Sdkb ^talk 07:06, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to Macalester College as nominator. Sdkb ^talk 07:06, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Also, it's beyond the scope of this AfD, but if anyone wants to seek out AfDable articles, the new Category:University and college astronomical observatories is chock full of them. Sdkb ^talk 07:08, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Redirect – Per above. Svartner (talk) 01:12, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

National Association of Colleges and Employers

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Unsourced article from 2008 about a professional association. A WP:BEFORE search reveals scattered media, e.g. [1], covering the organization's annual jobs survey, but such coverage is not focused on the organization itself. Sdkb ^talk 05:12, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Campus Maps

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The only secondary coverage available is from campus papers, which don't contribute to notability under NORG's heightened audience requirements. Sdkb ^talk 03:55, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete Insufficient sourcing to establish notability. --Here2rewrite (talk) 03:38, 17 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

List of campus identifications in mobile wallets

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This list fundamentally fails WP:INDISCRIMINATE. It is sourced only to individual universities or to the technology platforms that provide the mobile wallets, both primary sources. The best case for WP:NLIST would invoke the secondary coverage in dubious-reliability sources like CNET (generally unreliable at RSP) and TechCrunch ("may be less useful for the purpose of determining notability" at RSP), but even setting aside the reliability concerns, these articles mention only a few institutions rather than discussing them all as a group. Lastly, at the risk of making a prediction, the long-term prospects for this list are poor, since presuming this technological trend continues, eventually nearly every college will be part of it. Sdkb ^talk 03:43, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to Campus card, where the overall trend is discussed, but without merging the indiscriminate list, as nominator. Sdkb ^talk 03:43, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Redirect Per nom. ~ Matthewrb ^{Let's connect · Here to help} 04:05, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Special Assistance Resource Teacher

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Renominating as last AfD was no consensus. No significant coverage in gnews, gbooks and Australian search engine Trove. Most of the sources are primary like minister's announcements and government sources. LibStar (talk) 22:47, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Universities and colleges

Other school or university articles

Woolf College, Kent

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I have carried out WP:BEFORE for this college of the University of Kent, and added an independent reference confirming its establishment in 2008. I cannot see significant coverage in independent sources, however - the reference I have added has only one sentence of coverage - , and do not think it is notable independently of University of Kent. I originally tagged it with notability issues in 2022, and redirected it to University of Kent yesterday, but this has been reverted by another editor. Tacyarg (talk) 21:47, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Education, United Kingdom, and England. Tacyarg (talk) 21:47, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
KEEP: Woolf College meets Wikipedia's notability guidelines for educational institutions and should be kept as a separate article. A precedent for keeping articles on colleges of the University of Kent was set in the Turing College AfD discussion (2018), where the result was to keep the article. The discussion highlighted that Kent is a semi-collegiate university, and each of its colleges plays a unique role in student life, not merely as halls of residence, but with distinct functions such as administrative offices and college masters.

Specifically, the Turing College AfD concluded that, like other Kent colleges (such as Eliot, Rutherford, Keynes, and Darwin), Turing College warranted a separate article due to its role within the university and the broader context of collegiate universities in the UK, such as Lancaster and York, which also have articles for their individual colleges. The same reasoning should apply to Woolf College, as it too is a functioning residential and academic unit within the University of Kent.

Historical Precedent: Just as Turing College was retained as a standalone article despite concerns about notability, Woolf College should be given the same consideration. The semi-collegiate structure of the University of Kent supports the argument that each college has independent significance and contributes uniquely to the university.

Consistency with Other Colleges: There is a clear pattern of keeping separate articles for colleges at Kent, and merging them into a single article would risk losing the distinct identity and contributions of each college. The precedent established in the Turing College AfD discussion supports this approach.

Given these points and the Turing College precedent, I believe Woolf College should be kept as a separate article, consistent with the treatment of other Kent colleges. GreenALC (talk) 22:03, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
KEEP: I would like to expand on my initial points regarding Woolf College’s notability. While the college's primary role is to provide accommodation, it also hosts a variety of academic events, including international conferences and lectures focused on subjects related to Virginia Woolf and broader literary themes. These events contribute to the college’s unique identity within the University of Kent and enhance its cultural and academic significance.

As an example, in 2018, Woolf College hosted the 28th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, which brought together scholars from around the world. More recently, in 2024, the college hosted a lecture by Professor Rachel Bowlby on the theme of Virginia Woolf and the Property Market, demonstrating its continuing academic engagement with the legacy of Woolf and her relevance in contemporary discourse.

This active role in hosting significant academic events contributes to the college’s function as an academic and cultural hub within the university, much like Turing College, Eliot College, and Darwin College, which have retained individual articles due to their distinct history, facilities, and contributions to the university’s structure. Woolf College, in the same vein, fulfills a comparable function and warrants the same consideration for a separate article.

I hope this additional information helps clarify why Woolf College meets the standards for notability and why it should be retained as a standalone article. GreenALC (talk) 22:50, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Keep. Satisfies WP:GNG. -- Necrothesp (talk) 11:43, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I'm terribly sorry about this, because I'd rather this were kept but it doesn't pass WP:GNG on the current sourcing and there's simply nothing out there to get it past WP:GNG - which is the standard we are asked to evaluate even degree-awarding institutions against. Presumed notability is less compelling an argument for a relatively new institution. Best Alexandermcnabb (talk) 12:47, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Does it or doesn't it meet GNG? Can we get a source analysis?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, asilvering (talk) 01:30, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Far from GNG. Source 1 is a passing mention

. 2, 8 (Kentish Gazette) I can't access (why are they linked through LexisNexis??). 3, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 17, 18 are by Kent

. 4 is by a partner, not independent

. 7 doesn't mention the subject

. 12 is an announcement for a seminar held there; trivial, primary, and non-independent

. 13 is a book edited and written by lecturers at Kent; not independent

. 14 is an announcement for a conference held at Woolf College; trivial, primary, non-independent

. 15 is a trivial listing for the same conference

. 16 yet another trivial, non-independent mention as the venue for the conference

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Even if the Kentish Gazette pieces are both IRS SIGCOV, that's still only one GNG source when multiple are required. JoelleJay (talk) 05:32, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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