Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/St. Timothy High School (Cochrane)
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The result was redirect to Calgary Catholic School District. Star Mississippi 12:09, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
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The school is not notable, the entire article relies soly on the school's own website, which isn't a reliable, secondary source. Luna <3 (She/Her) (talk) 04:19, 15 July 2023 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. Luna <3 (She/Her) (talk) 04:20, 15 July 2023 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Education, Schools, and Christianity. Spiderone(Talk to Spider) 11:10, 15 July 2023 (UTC)
- Keep: High schools are usually the subject of enough verifiable and reliable published sources to pass WP:GNG. After a quick search I found coverage in the Calgary Herald and another article about their new principal and added them to the article. I suspect there are more sources out there to develop the article. ––FormalDude (talk) 15:41, 15 July 2023 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. I haven't been able to find anything that would satisfy WP:NSCHOOL. The notion that high schools are generally notable was discarded quite a while back. Clarityfiend (talk) 22:33, 15 July 2023 (UTC)
- Redirect to Calgary Catholic School District. I have spent some time searching for sources, but nothing significant at this stage. It could just be WP:TOOSOON - the school is quite new, although it is heading for its 20th anniversary. All the same, it is not very large, and doesn't appear to be independently notable. Per Clarityfiend, secondary schools are no longer presumed notable, and that is a consensus view from an RfC. However, neither did FormalDude say that they were - merely that such schools are usually the subject of sufficient coverage in sources to pass GNG. This is true, but at this point I do not see that for this case. The Calgary Herald articles have limited distribution, and an article about appointment of staff at what is essentially a local school is not sufficient in itself to establish notability. I do feel, however, that a redirect is a suitable alternative to deletion in this case. Redirects are WP:CHEAP, and searching on the name of the school with the place (per the title) is a plausible search term - particularly by people in the locality. Information on this page is almost entirely on the redirect target page, and that would be a suitable landing page for anyone conducting the search. I do not see that deletion prior to redirect is required - thus page history would be preserved should more sources come to light in the future, such that this could be expanded into an encylopaedic artice. As it may just be TOOSOON, it is entirely possible that such an article could be written one day. Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 14:03, 16 July 2023 (UTC)
- Redirect per Sirfurboy. IMO this is a better way of organizing schools coverage in general, if only because it affords a much less inviting target for the various kinds of abuse that school articles are traditionally subjected to. At any rate it seems like a substantially better approach here, where there really doesn't seem to be sourcing currently available that could support more than a permastub. It can always be spun back out later if sufficient source material is located. -- Visviva (talk) 03:06, 17 July 2023 (UTC)
- Comment by nominator: Not going to !vote for obvious COI reasons, but I would support a redirect per Sirfurboy and Visviva. Luna <3 (She/Her) (talk) 05:15, 19 July 2023 (UTC)
- 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.