KillerChihuahua (talk | contribs) You don't need consensus to reject, you need consensus to approve. There is not even remotely consensus; this has been going on for two years and there is unlikely to be any sudden change. Rejected. |
This proposal has existed for 2 (and a bit) months, not 2 years. |
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''This is a work in progress. Editors are encouraged to improve it and discuss ideas on the [[Wikipedia talk:Schools|talk page]].'' |
Revision as of 20:38, 31 October 2006
This is a work in progress. Editors are encouraged to improve it and discuss ideas on the talk page.
Schools are frequently important to their communities, and are often the subject of the sort of non-trivial published works that are needed to complete an article. Wikipedia articles about schools should show that there is, or that there is likely to be, sufficient coverage of that school to allow for the creation of a complete article.
Editors may consider a school to be best handled in a separate article if it verifiably meets at least one of the following criteria:
- The school has been the subject of multiple non-trivial published works whose source is independent of the school itself.Template:Fn
- This criterion includes published works in all forms, such as newspaper articles, books, magazine articles, television documentaries, and public reports by schools inspection agencies and consumer watchdog organizations, except for the following:Template:Fn Template:Fn
- Trivial coverage, such as newspaper articles that simply mention the school in passing. Template:Fn
- Directories of schools that offer nothing more than demographic data, or lists of alumni that offer no content other than lists of names and years
- Works (such as school newspapers) published by the school itself or its staff, students, or faculty, unless those works are themselves notable.
- Other works which would not meet Wikipedia's reliable source standards
- This criterion includes published works in all forms, such as newspaper articles, books, magazine articles, television documentaries, and public reports by schools inspection agencies and consumer watchdog organizations, except for the following:Template:Fn Template:Fn
- The school has been or was in existence for over 50 years, due to the great likelihood of—but greater difficulty of uncovering—non-trivial historical coverage of that schoolTemplate:Fn
- The school participates in the highest grade of the state, province or regional competitions in at least three extracurricular activities and has won at least two regional championships or one national championship in any of these activities. These can include, for example, sports teams, band competitions, cheerleading competitions, engineering contests, and so forth.
- The school has a substantial and unique program, structure, or technique that differentiates it from similar schools.Template:Fn
- Significant awards or commendations have been bestowed upon the school or its staff.
- The school has notable alumni or staff (e.g. would qualify for an article under WP:BIO or WP:MUSIC).
- The school building or campus has notable architectural features that set it apart from others.Template:Fn
Comprehensive coverage
- The school is a post-secondary school.Template:Fn Template:Fn
- The school article is part of a series of similarly maintained articles related to a specific school board, school district, or other notable organization.
Articles about schools that do not meet the above criterion may be unexpandable save for demographic data. As well, Wikipedia is neither a directory nor a phonebook. School articles should not merely list upcoming events, phone numbers, schedules etc. Such articles should likely be merged into an article about their parent community. See Wikipedia:Places of local interest for more suggestions for dealing with such articles.
Notes
- Template:Fnb Self-promotion is not the route to having an encyclopaedia article. The published works must be someone else writing about the school. (See Wikipedia:Autobiography for the verifiability and neutrality problems that affect material where the subject of the article itself is the source of the material.) The barometer of notability is whether people independent of the subject itself have actually considered the school notable enough that they have written and published non-trivial works that focus upon it.
- Template:Fnb What constitutes a "published work" is deliberately broad. Some examples: Rift Valley Academy and The King's School, Worcester have been the subjects of books. Maywood Avenue School has been the subject of several full-length newspaper articles. Almost all schools even nursery schools in the U.K. have been the subjects of Ofsted reports.
- Template:Fnb Newspaper coverage includes regular coverage in local media (such as complete stories about a school's athletic program).
- Template:Fnb Non-triviality is a measure of the depth of content of a published work, and how far removed that content is from a simple directory entry or a mention in passing that does not discuss the subject in detail. A 30-page detailed report that analyses a whole range of aspects of the specific school is non-trivial, whereas a simple directory entry giving name, address, type, and enrollment (such as this) is not.
- Template:Fnb It is highly unlikely that any accredited institution of tertiary education will fail to satisfy the primary criterion. This criterion is a safety net that ensures that our coverage of tertiary education is comprehensive.
- Template:Fnb This criterion is controversial. See the talk page.
- Template:Fnb If the architectural features of the school have been the subjects of non-trivial published works, then the primary criterion comes into play, of course.
- Template:Fnb Tertiary educational institutions which are distinctly for-profit should also be examined with Wikipedia:Notability (companies and corporations).