The result was The consensus was Redirect. Already redirected.'. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 12:33, 3 October 2013 (UTC) reply
No exceptional claim to notability; per school article guidelines and common outcomes at historic AfD discussions, middle schools are assumed not notable. The only claim (outside of claims any school could or should be able to make) to notability is that it's name was changed to honor Dr. King, but so were hundreds of other schools all across the country and around the world. Gtwfan52 ( talk) 05:38, 23 September 2013 (UTC) reply
This particular MLK may have been the first to be so named. It's also been the site of a notable garden, the Edible Schoolyard. Apart from that, there is the other issue of the intent of the guidelines re: notability. These are aimed at reducing trivia, but not factual information. If a non-trivial article is deemed insufficiently notable by itself but has factual value nonetheless, then the proper thing is to transfer that information to another article, not to blot it out of existence. If followed ad absurdum, Wikipedia would become very small indeed. Tmangray ( talk) 05:55, 23 September 2013 (UTC) reply
To re-iterate from the article discussion page, I'm not that wedded to keeping this an independent article, but I do wonder why Wikipedia would wish to constract and constrict. I always imagined that it would be a wide open communal encyclopedia right down to the most trivial facts. But perhaps it comes down to server space, so trivia is out. My suggestion is that, if conformity to the letter of some policy is required, that some of the basic factual information about the school be transferred to the district article, attached to the listing for this school. I would be happy to do the editing.
One last thing...could you point me to the specific pages where the policy(ies) you cite are discussed? As to both this particular (schools, notability) and the more general one pertaining to permissable degrees of triviality, and also as to liberality of application of policies. I'm not about to engage a debate about them, I'm just curious to see how these things operate. Thank you. Tmangray ( talk) 06:57, 23 September 2013 (UTC) reply
The result was The consensus was Redirect. Already redirected.'. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 12:33, 3 October 2013 (UTC) reply
No exceptional claim to notability; per school article guidelines and common outcomes at historic AfD discussions, middle schools are assumed not notable. The only claim (outside of claims any school could or should be able to make) to notability is that it's name was changed to honor Dr. King, but so were hundreds of other schools all across the country and around the world. Gtwfan52 ( talk) 05:38, 23 September 2013 (UTC) reply
This particular MLK may have been the first to be so named. It's also been the site of a notable garden, the Edible Schoolyard. Apart from that, there is the other issue of the intent of the guidelines re: notability. These are aimed at reducing trivia, but not factual information. If a non-trivial article is deemed insufficiently notable by itself but has factual value nonetheless, then the proper thing is to transfer that information to another article, not to blot it out of existence. If followed ad absurdum, Wikipedia would become very small indeed. Tmangray ( talk) 05:55, 23 September 2013 (UTC) reply
To re-iterate from the article discussion page, I'm not that wedded to keeping this an independent article, but I do wonder why Wikipedia would wish to constract and constrict. I always imagined that it would be a wide open communal encyclopedia right down to the most trivial facts. But perhaps it comes down to server space, so trivia is out. My suggestion is that, if conformity to the letter of some policy is required, that some of the basic factual information about the school be transferred to the district article, attached to the listing for this school. I would be happy to do the editing.
One last thing...could you point me to the specific pages where the policy(ies) you cite are discussed? As to both this particular (schools, notability) and the more general one pertaining to permissable degrees of triviality, and also as to liberality of application of policies. I'm not about to engage a debate about them, I'm just curious to see how these things operate. Thank you. Tmangray ( talk) 06:57, 23 September 2013 (UTC) reply