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The result was redirect. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 01:05, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bettendorf Middle School (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log)

Middle schools do not inherently meet the notability guideline, and this article makes no real assertion otherwise. My google search turned up about 2000 hits, but a skimming of them revealed to me nothing but trivial listings; while the school was mentioned on many websites, it was only to provide such simple information as its address and student population, not actually discuss the school. In light of this, I suspect that no notability-asserting sources actually exist. Someguy1221 00:16, 3 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete Does not assert notability, Wikipedia is not a school directory. szyslak 06:08, 3 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge this article and Bettendorf High School into a Bettendorf School District article, along with the parts of the education section of the main Bettendorf, Iowa article. The community has 30000 people and a few schools too many for making it feasible to merge everything education and school related into the city article. The schools themselves are unremarkable, and probably don't need separate articles but they have apparently gained a fair number of state athletic championships. The education system of a community is a significant part of the public services and affect about half of the population, whether they are students, parents or employees. Sjakkalle (Check!) 06:29, 3 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete as nn school. Eusebeus 13:55, 3 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete nn --Victor falk 18:12, 3 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nom!--NightRider63 20:04, 3 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletions. —Camaron1 | Chris 20:11, 3 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge with Bettendorf High School into Bettendorf School District. As far as I am aware, neither school has anything very notable about them to need there own article, but both articles could be trimmed down and merged into a single entry quite easily. Bettendorf High School does appear to have some notable former students, some sources for those would help establish notability. Camaron1 | Chris 20:42, 3 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• delete per nom, or merge into BSD. Chris 21:14, 3 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge with the district page or the Bettendorf, Iowa article like suggested, and per our well established WP:REDIRECT guidelines. Burntsauce 22:03, 3 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep A very large number of athletic championships is a reason for notability of a school.DGG (talk) 08:13, 4 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • If you can provide reliable sources for these championships I would tend to agree, but there are none hence the redirect !vote. Burntsauce 17:13, 4 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge and redirect per Sjakkalle who provides a well reasoned argument for doing so. RFerreira 19:30, 6 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - 39 state championships are plenty to establish notability. TerriersFan 21:44, 6 October 2007 (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.