Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Soroti Secondary School

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The result was keep. Consensus is that GNG is satisfied. (non-admin closure) wumbolo ^^^ 11:25, 22 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Soroti Secondary School

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Non-notable school , with no reliable sources in the article , the sources have no mere mention of the subject . Kpg jhp jm 08:49, 15 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. Kpg jhp jm 08:54, 15 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Africa-related deletion discussions. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 13:06, 15 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. The news articles cited as references (a teacher strike and the retirement of the head teacher) are enough to build an article on. Category:Secondary schools in Uganda shows that this is a comparatively weak area for the English Wikipedia. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 13:08, 15 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep as per Eastmain. Also, this appears to be an old school prior to the internet and online news. Being in a developing country, you are not going to see internet articles about it popping up ever where. However, there has been enough discuss in paper in the previous decades. I am looking at some works in Google books, some of them are in snippits but old publications and couple appear to discuss the subject in detail as far I as can gauge. For example [1] , [2]. There is also this paper [3], Senegambianamestudy (talk) 16:55, 15 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - there is more sourcing in this article than many first world schools have. Why wouldn't we keep it? John from Idegon (talk) 17:00, 15 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - adequately sourced to meet GNG. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 10:09, 16 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep passes WP:GNG.Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 11:38, 16 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep it's a stub, but that's not a reason for deletion. Secondary schools are often notable, and there's sufficient sourcing here. power~enwiki (π, ν) 20:36, 16 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - adequately sourced to meet GNG. Just Chilling (talk) 21:31, 18 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - the sourcing isn't as strong as I expected from the !votes above, but still enough that you can argue that it meets the GNG. — Insertcleverphrasehere ^{(or here)} 21:55, 19 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - none of the references provide the in depth coverage from independent sources that are clearly required by WP:NCORP or WP:GNG. Schools are not automatically notable just because they exist. Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 05:07, 20 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

As a government school, it is therefore not a "for-profit educational institution", and the additional requirements of WP:NCORP do not apply. As for meeting the GNG, it is a bit borderline. — Insertcleverphrasehere ^{(or here)} 20:36, 21 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Analyzing the news sources given: 1) Nile Post - tries to maintain a directory of all government public schools 2) Uganda Radio Network - news agency covering a teacher strike 3) New Vision news article about the head teacher retiring. The additional books and journals posted by Senegambianamestudy are hard to tell as the first two of those are book snippets, and the last report of that one is a passing mention about poor performance and enrolling a low number of first-graders. AngusWOOF (bark • sniff) 19:07, 20 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Here's a ranking of a bunch of the high schools in Uganda. There are 2594 of them. [4] Note there is also a Soroti Secondary School Annex, and multiple other secondary schools in Soroti like Light SS Soroti and Soroti Municipal Secondary School.. Some other secondary schools listed such as Soroti Senior Secondary School should be same since it mentions former headmaster Patrick Attan, this article mentions how 30m in property was stolen from the school and that "Most of the textbook material was donated by the Ministry of Education, African Development Bank and the New Vision." [5] It also did not have a clean transition of head teachers [6] Soroti Central Senior Secondary School [7] different from Soroti Secondary School [8] Here's a snippet where it says the school has a land title [9] where many other schools don't have one. Also, Lake Union Rotary lists a Soroti Secondary School being founded in the 2000s. This seems to be completely different. Are there multiple schools using the name? AngusWOOF (bark • sniff) 19:39, 20 August 2018 (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.