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The result was keep. - Mailer Diablo 11:44, 16 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Christmas Island District High School (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log)

The article seems to suffer from a lack of notability Sijo Ripa 02:03, 11 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep, it's in the rather interesting position of being the only school in the island. A very interesting article could be written on the school with some more sources. --bainer (talk) 08:13, 11 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Australia-related deletions. -- Recurring dreams 10:36, 11 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep as per bainer. The article has been around for a while, but I do not think most Australian editors knew about it. Being the only School in a Territory of Australia hundreds of km from the mainland makes it notable, but it needs more sources. --Bduke 11:24, 11 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge into Christmas island article. The school is too small for the article to stand by itself, given the lack of other factors of note. — RJH (talk) 16:56, 11 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep Highly unusual school, and a major institution on Easter Island. Golfcam 19:17, 11 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Psst. Wrong holiday. This is the one with the jolly red-suited guy, not the one with the bunny. Alansohn 23:31, 11 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge into Christmas Island; no sources to demonstrate notability. The article's sole reference refers to the school only in passing and reads like a press release anyway. Fails the primary notability criterion. A Train^talk 22:24, 11 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep but especially expand. ARticles would be more notable if a history section and features are added.JForget 23:15, 11 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep A fairly unique school that has distinct claims of notability, located on an extremely isolated island. Alansohn 23:31, 11 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge They didn't win the award, they were just one of the finalists - which probably meant, out of all the schools which submitted applications, this was one of the few which actually met all the entry criteria. Put the environmental efforts at Great Beach, Christmas Island. Unfortunately that is the only source cited.Garrie 23:54, 11 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep as it seems notable enough for mine. A second alternative would be to mention it on Christmas Island under education. Capitalistroadster 03:00, 12 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep the school is notable in an Australian context due to a combination of unusual circumstances including its remote location, distance from its administrative body, handling of linguistic diversity and special arrangements for asylum seekers. I've added a link to the article which includes further information.--Melburnian 03:38, 12 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge in the event of no further reliable sources being found, otherwise Keep if they are - that seems to be the main issue, notability has been stated clearly enough above SatuSuro 09:59, 12 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep, normally I don't like school articles, but I think this school is unique enough to be notable. Lankiveil 11:33, 12 July 2007 (UTC).[reply]
• Merge. Agree with SatuSuro. No secondary sources cited, therefore fails WP:N. Only secondary source available seems to be a story about a visit by the Australian Governor General. This schools is no different to any other school or organisation. Assize 12:34, 13 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep per bainer - I think its status as the only school in a remote territory of Australia could lend itself to an interesting article, and the sources should be available, although may be hard to find. Orderinchaos 03:27, 14 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep per bainer, uniquely notable to warrant inclusion here. (jarbarf) 03:35, 14 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep High schools are generally notable. This one being the only high school in the island/territory makes solidifies its notability. --Oakshade 05:15, 14 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep per bainer. Rebecca 00:25, 15 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep per bainer and because there are no easy merge targets at this stage: Christmas Island is a large article, but a education specific article doesnt exist at this stage (Christmas_Island#Education is basically three bullet points). The general principle of upmerging schools article to the relevant school district justifies the presence of this article -- this school is the only high school in the district. A migrate to Christmas Island School District could be done in order to include any primary schools, and this should be done in preference to deletion. Note that there are 3000 odd hits on this general topic on "gov.au" alone, with 1,200 of those in wa.gov.au. John Vandenberg 02:32, 15 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletions. -- John Vandenberg 02:32, 15 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - an unusual and distinctive school and notable for being the only one in its territory. TerriersFan 15:39, 15 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment to closing admin: main comment here is Keep per Bainer, but his reason "it's in the rather interesting position... " sounds a lot like WP:ILIKEIT.Garrie 22:20, 15 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Dismissing the arguments of others as "WP:ILIKEIT" isn't a convenient way of getting your way over consensus. It just makes you a jerk. Bainer expressed the arguments of many, and it makes sense to a rational person to say "per bainer" rather than each individually rephrasing the argument so the logically challenged policy wonks will find it acceptable. Rebecca 23:14, 15 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Well GarrieIrons, if I must use the word, I was explaining what makes the school "notable". --bainer (talk) 01:36, 16 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep as this falls under Wikipedia:WikiProject_Schools and should be expanded.--Absurdist 22:25, 15 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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