The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was keep. No arguments for deletion aside from the nominator. (non-admin closure) Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:03, 20 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Saraswati International School[edit]

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A prod tag placed on this unreferenced article was removed with the explanation that "High schools are always notable." Is that the case here? A Google News search turns up nothing to confirm anything, let alone notability, and it would appear that the article runs afoul of WP:RS and WP:ORG requirements. What does the AfD community think? Pastor Theo (talk) 23:05, 13 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment - maybe notable. Bearian (talk) 23:18, 13 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. -- -SpacemanSpiff^{Calvin‡Hobbes} 23:30, 13 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. -- -SpacemanSpiff^{Calvin‡Hobbes} 23:30, 13 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - not only a high school but an international school. Indian schools traditionally have a poor Internet presence. Consequently, time needs to be given for local sources to be researched, to avoid systemic bias, and less than a day doesn't meet the case. TerriersFan (talk) 01:47, 14 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Assuming that "international" schools are more notable than any other kind of school is a troubling form of systemic bias. cab (talk) 09:59, 14 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep. High schools are always notable, as I noted when I removed the prod. -- Eastmain (talk) 03:36, 14 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Neutral not particularly biased, actively harmful, or otherwise objectionable in its present state. Expand when independent sources are located. Don't expand by quoting the school website talking about how great the school is (unfortunately, an AfD often provokes people to do precisely that). cab (talk) 09:59, 14 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep- I think this article should not be deleted. It's not that the article Saraswati International School is promoting the school, it was written with an intention to show that there are many schools in South-Gujarat which are affiliated to CBSE course. In a city like Valsad, it's very prestigious to have such a school. And as we talk of High Schools, than I think that it'll remain a debate forever. I'll post the entire article again, then you guys please remove those lines which are promotive or not meet those long-clousy policies. Please reply to me. Sukhoi30mki (talk) 10:18, 14 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep It is a policy that high schools are always notable, primary schools have to have something else to show notability too at this point in history. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 11:40, 14 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

  No, there is no such policy. Wikipedia:Notability itself is only a guideline. There is only an essay Wikipedia:Inherent notability which supports this view, and this is balanced by WP:NOTINHERITED. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 13:03, 14 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Deserves to be kept. What my opinion is that article on every international school SPECIALLY THOSE WHICH ARE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS IN INDIA should be kept on Wikipedia and minimum 100-200 words should be written, because in a country like India; its a great thing to have International Schools.117.192.102.87 (talk) 06:29, 16 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• I'm all for keeping secondary schools, but there is no difference between a normal secondary school and one that has the word international in its name. -SpacemanSpiff^{Calvin‡Hobbes} 15:46, 16 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Response Offcourse there is some difference, I don't know about other schools; but I can say about Saraswati International School because this school is going to have merger with Cambridge University London in the next few days or maybe some months as the procedure is in process. Sukhoi30mki (talk) 07:47, 17 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep per general consensus on notability of verifiable high schools. -SpacemanSpiff^{Calvin‡Hobbes} 15:46, 16 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep as for all secondary schools. The AfD community decided long ago that what it though was that these debates are insufficiently productive & it's simpler to keep them all, rather than argue over a possible 10% of non-notables. The actual point about international schools is that it is often easier to find more to say in the article, because of the different curriculums involved. DGG (talk) 18:06, 16 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Response That would be per the US (and possibly other countries that I don't know of) definition of an International school, in India, the word international in the name doesn't have the same connotation. -SpacemanSpiff^{Calvin‡Hobbes} 18:29, 16 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep All the international schools have different curriculums, activities, special staff, special environment and lots more. So I think that all the International Schools on Wikipedia should not be deleted. Sukhoi30mki (talk) 13:01, 18 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Above duplicate !vote struck. -SpacemanSpiff^{Calvin‡Hobbes} 16:46, 18 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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.