Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ridgefield School District (Connecticut)

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The result was keep. JGHowes ^talk 02:10, 23 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Ridgefield School District (Connecticut)

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Not notable, unorganized, no secondary sources ––Redditaddict69 ^(talk) ^(contribs) 21:36, 15 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Education-related deletion discussions. ––Redditaddict69 ^(talk) ^(contribs) 21:36, 15 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Connecticut-related deletion discussions. ––Redditaddict69 ^(talk) ^(contribs) 21:36, 15 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Offhand, this seems like a lazy deletion nomination, with no mention of wp:BEFORE searching. "unorganized" is not a deletion reason, nor is "no secondary sources". Nor is "not notable" if nominator has not done some work.

Anyhow, it's a school district and sources will exist, about the district and/or about its 8 schools, and it could obviously be developed. You could add secondary sources if you wanted; wp:AFDISNOTFORCLEANUP. If you are a deletionist, then you should support Keeping or creating school district articles, towards heading off creation of separate articles about all the schools. New articles about any of:

- Barlow Mountain Elementary School[3] (329 students; in grades PreK-5)
- Branchville Elementary School[4] (360; PreK-5)
- Farmingville Elementary School[5] (329; K-5)
- Ridgebury Elementary School[6] (338; PreK-5)
- Scotland Elementary School[7] (374; PreK-5)
- Veterans Park Elementary School[8] (282; PreK-5)
- Scotts Ridge Middle School (closer) and Ridgefield High School (farther) share the same campus.
- East Ridge Middle School[9] (500; 6-8)
- Scotts Ridge Middle School[10] (697)

may probably be redirected to this article, and/or redirects could be created now.

Help develop Wikipedia, not force multiple editors to consider AFD ideas where generally Wikipedia's typical treatment is already settled, as here. --Doncram (talk) 17:34, 16 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Keep, per Doncram, and the half hour I just spent finding multiple sources. The subject of a Wikipedia article is notable if reliable sources exist, regardless of how brief or poorly written an article may be in its current state. In this instance, knowing to search on "Ridgefield Schools" rather than the full article title was key to conducting an adequate search for WP:BEFORE. Below are sources that may be used to expand the existing article. Cheers! — Grand'mere Eugene (talk) 20:28, 16 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per sources found, and because school district articles are commonly used as merger or redirect targets. Bearian (talk) 16:44, 18 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. Necrothesp (talk) 11:22, 19 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - besides all the sources above showing a clear GNG pass, US school districts are inherently notable by the same standard incorporated settlements are. They have fixed boundries, and charge taxes. John from Idegon (talk) 11:07, 21 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - to expand upon John from Idegon's comment, I believe school districts qualify under WP:NGEO as Populated, legally recognized places. MarginalCost (talk) 12:37, 21 February 2020 (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.