Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tilak Public 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 a trainwreck. No prejudice against individual renominations, as all discussion concerned the procedural issue of bundling so many articles, rather than the merits of any individual page. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 05:32, 20 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Tilak Public School

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Non-notable schools. Articles are either unsourced, or replete with primary or unreliable sources. Also, they fail WP:NSCHOOL. Peter Ormond 💬 22:27, 13 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I am also nominating the following related pages per the same reason:

Peter Ormond 💬 22:36, 13 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Split into individual nominations. These schools aren't related except that they happen to be in India. Each of them requires a separate WP:BEFORE. Some that are affiliated with the Catholic church are likely to be listed in various editions of The Catholic Directory of India. C.B.C.I. Centre. 2005., but when Google Books doesn't provide a preview, we are faced with the problem that many schools derive their notability from offline sources. If the nominator isn't prepared to do WP:BEFORE, they should withdraw the nominations. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 22:50, 13 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 22:50, 13 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 22:51, 13 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Most of the articles are tagged with maintenance tags for years. If one can find reliable sources regarding these, they may add them and improve the articles. Peter Ormond 💬 23:01, 13 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

And the fact that a school is affiliated with the Catholic Church, doesn't guarantee its notability. See WP:NSCHOOL. Peter Ormond 💬 23:04, 13 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Procedural close – nominating 40 (!) unrelated articles at once is an abuse of WP:BUNDLE. Articles about secondary schools are quite often kept, so I'm sure that at least some of these articles have "a fair or better chance of standing on [their] own merits". (The fact that "most of the articles are tagged with maintenance tags" is of course irrelevant to the question of notability, which is determined by what sources exist.) But most importantly, it's surely not appropriate to bundle together articles about topics with no commonality except the subcontinent on which they are found. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 00:14, 14 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Procedural close per above. The nominated schools are unreleated to each other, spread across several states. Sources may exist in offline or non-English languages spoken in those states. Each of them should be judged based on their merit individually. -- Ab207 (talk) 06:24, 14 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Procedural keep - no way can a productive discussion be had about all of these barely-related schools in one single AfD. No prejudice against renominating any of these in a separate AfD on their own. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 09:15, 14 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Peter, don't you think that combining these in a single nomination might be considered just a tiny bit racist? I very much doubt whether so many schools would be combined in a single nomination if their only commonality was that they are in Europe. The impression given by this nomination is that articles don't deserve proper scrutiny if they are about subjects in a non-Western country that has a large non-white majority. Phil Bridger (talk) 16:13, 14 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

That was not my intention. I would nominate similar articles to deletion, once this one gets successful. Peter Ormond 💬 16:34, 14 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I assumed that that was not your intention, but it still comes across in that way. I hope you have realised by now that this one will not get successful, so will be a little more careful in the future. Phil Bridger (talk) 17:13, 14 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Procedural close: I thought we learned from Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mayoral elections not to do these clusterfuck batch noms. I'm not opposed to these being renominated individually, but jeez... Curbon7 (talk) 16:43, 14 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Procedural close I can see most of the articles in the list, are not satisfying WP:NSCHOOL or WP:ORG. You may nominate those articles separately. But for this afd is not the right way. DMySon (talk) 20:59, 14 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Procedural close per above. The nominated schools are not related to each other and they should be nominated individually and not together.Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 21:25, 14 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Procedural close. There are too many schools here for us to give fair treatment to each article. I'm no friend of school articles, but let's look at each one separately. RomanSpa (talk) 22:39, 14 September 2021 (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.