Talk:British Schools Foundation

Proposed merge with The British School of Brasilia

Not yet listed at SEDF (Federal District Education Ministry) list of licensed schools. giso6150 (talk) 15:02, 25 March 2016 (UTC)

It is listed on the website https://britishschools.co.uk/british-school-brasilia ~Kvng (talk) 15:55, 28 March 2016 (UTC)

It is indeed listed on its own website. I think the best thing would be to find some third party source(s) to help bolster the school’s notability. Any press release or government document (in English or Portuguese) would go a long way at this point. giso6150 (talk) 18:15, 28 March 2016 (UTC)

https://britishschools.co.uk/british-school-brasilia is a page on British Schools Foundation's web site. This is the school's own website. We're discussing a merge here. Since the parent acknowledges the existence of The British School of Brasilia, it would be reasonable to merge that here if The British School of Brasilia is not considered to have stand-alone notability. ~Kvng (talk) 20:41, 28 March 2016 (UTC)

Soooo, The British School of Brasilia is notable because its owner/operator has an article. The foundation is notable because it owns/operates a number of schools, some of which have articles. The school is unsourced and WP:CRYSTAL. The foundation musters just one impartial source. This whole cluster of articles hovers very close to the base line for notability.

Both articles were created by editors who seem to have a WP:COI and come very close to WP:ADVERT.

Merge as a second-best outcome. Bazj (talk) 12:51, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

@Bazj: what is your first-best outcome. ~Kvng (talk) 18:00, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

Kvng At the time I wrote that, I'd have deleted the two articles as advertising (for the foundation) and advertising & WP:CRYSTAL for the school, without prejudice to their recreation should more detail become available once the school has actually started operating. Perhaps creating a category to tie together the notable schools in the foundation's portfolio.

Unfortunately, in looking at the foundation's other schools, it appears that they're pretty much cookie-cutter versions of each other created by a string of single-purpose accounts with more than a vague whiff of sockpuppetry. I'm now veering towards deletion of all the foundation's school articles through a single AfD, and an WP:SPI as the only way to clear up. Have you looked at the others? Bazj (talk) 21:01, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

No, I don't think I have. I WP:DEPRODded The British School of Brasilia because it looked like merging here was a reasonable alternative that had not been considered. I don't see a case for keeping it standalone. ~Kvng (talk) 21:57, 30 March 2016 (UTC)