Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kawthekar High School (2nd nomination)

:{{la|Kawthekar High School}} – (View AfDView log)

:({{Find sources|Kawthekar High School}})

Advertisement of school Day000Walker (talk) 17:08, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

:Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. —Tom Morris (talk) 17:29, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

• Keep according to established consensus that almost all high schools are notable as important, enduring institutions in their communities. This brief article has no resemblence to an "advertisement". Improve it through normal editing. Article survived a previous AfD, and I don't see what has changed since then. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 23:51, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
• Keep - no good reason to delete a major high school. Indian schools have a notoriously poor Internet presence and the better way forward is to look for local sources and expand the page from them. Merging into a new umbrella Pahandharpur Education Society would also be an acceptable way forward. TerriersFan (talk) 03:04, 19 September 2011 (UTC)
• Keep per longstanding near- or actual consensus that high schools are presumed notable and anyone asserting they are not has to give a plausible explanation. I can't speak for Indian schools but in the United States a plausible explanation would be "special-purpose high school lacking competitive sports teams or any other feature of notability common to most high schools in America." If I saw an AfD for such a school in America that had a plausible reason to claim non-notability then the burden of proof shifts back to the "wiki-normal" where those claiming notability need to show it. I assume from the comments at the first AfD that this high school is about as notable as other high schools in that part of India. So I say "keep" until someone can say that this school is somehow different and not as notable as other high schools in India. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 20:43, 20 September 2011 (UTC)
• Keep The sole reason behind the nomination is "advertisement". The article is clearly NOT an advertisement. Deterence ^Talk 05:13, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
• Delete. There's nothing notable about this school and I can't find anything on google about the school. Most of the info that comes back refers to either the wikipedia entry or the entry for Pandharapur itself. At the most this deserves a redirect to the city's page. As far as giving anything an internet presence goes, wikipedia isn't really the place for that. Fails WP:Notability. Tokyogirl79 (talk) 09:04, 24 September 2011 (UTC)tokyogirl79

:*Comment - no-one is suggesting that we are about giving this school an Internet presence. The point being made is that because of Indian schools' poor web presence Google searches are well nigh useless in finding sources. Time needs to be given for local sources to be researched and added. It is is not possible to say, at this time, that the school is not notable - only after local sources have been researched can we say that. Experience indicates that high schools throughout the world, each of which are a major presence in their communities and directly affect thousands of lives, are notable. If this school was located in the US, because of the good Internet coverage there, there would be no suggestion of deletion. Attempting to delete based on web searches is an example of systemic bias, and this should be avoided. When, as here, an article is on a likely notable subject we don't delete; we tag and improve over time. TerriersFan (talk) 00:08, 25 September 2011 (UTC)

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