Prehensile Tale

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Hi. I recently added a page for a school (Woodcot Primary), intending its content to be along the same lines as other schools already in Wikipedia. It was replaced by a redirection link to the education section for the town concerned (Gosport). Could you give me a steer on what makes a school worthy of its own page or not? Many thanks.

Prehensile Tale (talk) 13:00, 27 November 2015 (UTC)

Hi Prehensile Tale. Primary schools are very rarely notable enough for their own page. Most of the school articles already on Wikipedia are secondary schools. For this one to be notable there would need to be multiple independent reliable sources discussing the school in significant detail. Sarah-Jane (talk) 13:47, 27 November 2015 (UTC)

Hi. Thanks for coming back so promptly. I totally get that primary schools are hardly what one would call top line encyclopedia entries, so see the argument for them not being included at a page level. Where I struggle, perhaps, is that it feels a little arbitrary? For example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Western_Advocate_(Texas) gets a page, and I am finding it hard to convince myself that that makes 'notability' sense. Not looking to argue the point particularly, just voicing my mild confusion, I guess. Thanks again.

Prehensile Tale (talk) 14:08, 27 November 2015 (UTC)

Sometimes things slip through the cracks and some non-notable articles remain while others are spotted and deleted/redirected. If you come across any articles that you don't think are notable you can nominate them for deletion at WP:Articles for deletion.Sarah-Jane (talk) 14:40, 27 November 2015 (UTC)

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Onel5969 ^{TT me} 20:14, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

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