Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sierra Vista Middle School

Sierra Vista Middle School

Non-notable, delete per WP:OUTCOMES. ⁮şœśэїŝәқι^{ￆṱᾅἻқￂ} 00:25, 9 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

What is the criteria for including/excluding schools in Wikipedia? It seems like a lot of schools have articles similar to this one. Arthurrh 00:33, 9 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

High schools and above are usually kept, while middle schools, elementary schools, etc. are usually deleted (WP:OUTCOMES). ⁮şœśэїŝәқι^{ￆṱᾅἻқￂ} 00:48, 9 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That seems strange given the hundreds, perhaps thousands of schools in Category:Middle schools Arthurrh 00:59, 9 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Grand total: three articles. The subcategories are all empty. ⁮şœśэїŝәқι^{ￆṱᾅἻқￂ} 01:12, 9 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Actually that's incorrect, you need to go to the sub-sub categories, it gets pretty dispersed. You can see it better by using the Special:CategoryTree. For example, Category:Middle schools in the United States leads to Category:Middle schools in California which has over 200 entries. I don't know how if there is some wiki-way to quickly sum up the total of entries in a category and all it's sub-categories, but it would be helpful. Note also Wikipedia:WikiProject Schools seems to have no such distinction for preferring High schools but deleting elementary and middle schools. Arthurrh 01:16, 9 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: NN school. Again, as far as OUTCOMES, that should bear on whether or not to AfD an article. OUTCOMES is just basically a results list of previous AfD's. - Rjd0060 01:33, 9 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry to display my ignorance on this, but I've just recently wandered into the schools area of wikipedia because of searching for vandals. I can't seem to tell what the notability criteria is for schools. What's discussed above certainly doesn't agree with the schools wikiproject. Either a lot of articles are being kept that should be deleted, or the reverse is happening. Arthurrh 01:40, 9 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

FYI a sum of all entries underneath the "Middle schools" category is 1670. (see list of Middle schools categories) This is somewhat inflated as I believe it also includes the sub-category names, but it is close. Obviously Middle schools are not an automatic deletion. Arthurrh 02:02, 9 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete The notability guideline is applicable to schools; some people just don't feel like listening. This one is not notable. See my comment here about OUTCOMES. i ^said 02:36, 9 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Keep: If anything, this school should be kept for it's outstanding music program. In the Southern California Honor Orchestra, both the concertmaster positions for String and Full orchestra are held by Sierra Vista students, and the Southern California Honor Orchestra includes these counties: Imperial, Inyo, Kern, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, and Ventura. I think that's enough to be notable.