Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Monmouth School

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 SNOW Keep. Lenticel ^(talk) 05:48, 23 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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No notability established and no sources included within the article. The article only has a small list of links which are all links to the various school websites. Since this appears to be a private school, the sole purpose of the creation of the article appears to be to promote the school. Redgator5 (talk) 02:30, 23 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete - For reasons stated above.Redgator5 (talk) 02:31, 23 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

— Redgator5 (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. This appears to be an individual who is clearly knowledgeable about Wikipedia who seems to have established an account specifically for the deletion of this one article.

• Keep: This is an undersourced article, but the topic is definitely notable, and it has potential for improvement. A quick news search brings up a number of potential third-party sources that could corroborate some parts, and it's not inappropriate for a school to be major source of basic information about itself and its history. The article is not solely promotional. Compare to any other school or university article; it's not unlike many other articles. Avram (talk) 02:42, 23 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep I'm not sure how the nominator came to the rather questionable conclusion that any article about a private school must by necessity be an advertisement. This seems more like an article that requires the addition of some of the ample reliable and verifiable sources about the school to be added to the article, which could have been done through use one of the many tags available for this purpose. Based on the history of the school and the significant number of notable alumni, supported by reliable and verifiable sources to be added to the article, the Wikipedia:Notability standard is satisfied. Alansohn (talk) 03:59, 23 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - highly significant school that educates at high school level and includes a boarding school. Nearly 400 years of history and plenty of references available to meet WP:N. TerriersFan (talk) 03:31, 23 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. —TerriersFan (talk) 03:33, 23 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep 400 year old school? Yeah I think thats notable enough. I have also added sources. Fosnez (talk) 03:45, 23 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Suggest that the nominator be twatted around the head (in a fun way) about nominating articles like this again. Fosnez (talk) 03:46, 23 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep article. All 400 year-old institutions are verfiable and notable. Delete nominator as disruptive single-purpose sock account. --Gene_poole (talk) 03:47, 23 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Speedy keep. Pretty obvious WP:SPA account trying to delete an article about a 400-year-old educational institution? LOLWUT??? JBsupreme (talk) 05:36, 23 September 2008 (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.