Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/St Patrick's and St. Brigid's College

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The result was keep. The Bushranger _{One ping only} 05:12, 18 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

St Patrick's and St. Brigid's College

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Delete: non-notable school with no notable alumni; only external link is dead. Second AFD, apparently. Rms125a@hotmail.com (talk) 15:42, 11 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Very weak keep - Appears to just barely pass WP:CORPDEPTH, as this school continues to receive ongoing coverage in Irish newspapers. Per WP:CORPDEPTH, "If the depth of coverage is not substantial, then multiple independent sources should be cited to establish notability. Trivial or incidental coverage of a subject is not sufficient to establish notability." While the coverage is not enormous, it appears to be ongoing, although some is incidental. Here are some sources added to the article:
"Bishop Lagan commends College." Derry Journal.
"Drumkeerin Community News." Leitrim Observer.
"'Your Future Is Local'." Londonderry Sentinel.
"Lisneal leads anti-litter campaign." Londonderry Sentinel.
"More Northern Ireland grammars may lose status." Belfast Telegraph.
"Lisneal pupils amongst fingerprinted." Londonderry Sentinel.

Also, I fixed the link to the school in the article, it's now "alive" (functional). Northamerica1000 ^(talk) 02:19, 12 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Keep This is a secondary school, and established consensus if that secondary schools are presumed notable, unless a strong case is made that the school is not notable. In a few minutes, I found coverage of their cricket team here, the headmaster speaking out against dependency here, the school implementing biometric fingerprint identificatiion of students here, the school described as "a specialist school in Enterprise and Business" here, and the school described in several paragraphs of detail here. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 02:35, 12 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Comment What does "school with no notable alumni" have to do with whether we ought to have an article about this school? That is not a valid argument for deletion. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 02:38, 12 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per Cullen, none of the "we can't even verify it" concerns exist.--Milowent • ^talkblp-r 03:43, 12 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ireland-related deletion discussions. — frankie (talk) 14:50, 12 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. — frankie (talk) 14:50, 12 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: the recent references are only trivial community news items that don't prove the notability of the school. ww2censor (talk) 15:58, 12 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - no need to depart from the convention and experience that with enough research sufficient sources for high schools to meet WP:GNG will be found. TerriersFan (talk) 03:25, 14 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Enough coverage found to justify an article for a high school. Dream Focus 22:07, 15 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Long enough history involving enough individuals and events to justify notability. Sngourd (talk) 16:33, 17 October 2011 (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.