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This article was nominated for deletion on 15 December 2012. The result of the discussion was procedural close.

District website is offline

FYI, all the URLs on the page are likely correct, but the whole district site has been taken down, likely because of the recent tragedy. My recommendation is to leave the URLs in place, my guess is that they will work in a week or a month from now. --Arg342 (talk) 14:25, 15 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Edit request - Sandy Hook School

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The actual name of the school is Sandy Hook School, not Sandy Hook Elementary School. If you look at the names of the other three elementary schools on the list in the article, you'll notice that none of them have the word "Elementary" in them. That's correct. Here's a pic of the school sign from this article. --76.189.123.142 (talk) 04:22, 16 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: It seems it'r referred to by both names and in the article you provided a link to it's referred to as both. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 04:30, 16 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The name of the school is Sandy Hook School. I showed you the definitive proof, a photo of the school sign. The fact that the article refers to it as "Sandy Hook Elementary" doesn't make it the actual school name. It's standard for a news site to use Elementary, Middle or High for a school name. As I said, none of the four elementary schools in the Newtown Public Schools have the word Elementary in their names, as correctly shown for the other three schools on the list in the article. --76.189.123.142 (talk) 04:38, 16 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Also, you can go to the school district's website (http://newtown.hawley.schooldesk.net/). Hover on the Schools tab and you will see that the name of the school is Sandy Hook School. --76.189.123.142 (talk) 05:25, 16 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The ultimate proof that the name of the school is Sandy Hook School... read the principal's message. Please make the change in the article. The school's name is Sandy Hook School and more than enough proof has been provided. --76.189.123.142 (talk) 05:40, 16 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Here's another source.[1] --76.189.123.142 (talk) 06:31, 16 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I think you may be right. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 06:38, 16 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. And I know I'm right because I know people who live in that general area and everyone there knows the name of the school is Sandy Hook School. But of course I need to provide reliable sources on here to prove it, which I have. Actually, you can change it since you're a registered user. Thanks, Anna. --76.189.123.142 (talk) 07:11, 16 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

This image shows a very prominent and expensive sign with the word 'Elementary' in it. I doubt that they would have sprung for an extra 10 giant metal letters if this was not the name of the school. Abductive (reasoning) 07:16, 16 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You are of course referring to this image. Abductive, you have a pretty good point. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 07:21, 16 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

"Elementary my dear, Anna (and Abductive)". A bit OR-ish but there it is, "SANDY HOOK ELEMENTARY... " in rather big (5 bricks high) letters. - 220 of ^Borg 07:35, 16 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: Sometimes an institution goes by more than one name, even to the point of contradictory signs. (At a school I once attended, there was a spirited, ongoing argument as to whether "The" was part of the official name. Go figure. Any wonder I became a Wikipedian?) Nonetheless, we should pick one or the other, and I think the choice is clear. The Hartford Courant, the largest newspaper in Connecticut, refers to it as "Sandy Hook Elementary School", as does a local television station. Local media should know. If that's not local enough, how about going to the horse's mouth: the school's own web site should be reliable, I think. Re-closing good-faith edit request now. Rivertorch (talk) 07:56, 16 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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District website is offline

Edit request - Sandy Hook School