Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hartselle City School District
There is a broad consensus — not reflected in the actual guidelines, but very broadly accepted and enforced by closing administrators in AfD debates — that secondary schools are presumed notable if existence can be demonstrated (akin to the way towns, rivers, highways, etc. are treated) while primary schools are presumed non-notable outside of extraordinary circumstances. The latter are redirected to the school district or, failing that opportunity, to the town in which they are located. This compromise between those favoring a tight, narrowly focused encyclopedia and those favoring a broad, expansive encyclopedia has a logic behind it. As follows: high schools are community landmarks and are almost invariably the subject of substantial media coverage, sponsoring sports teams, drama clubs, bands, orchestras, choral groups, etc. Moreover, proper biographies often include the exact name of a high school and these links should be blue, not red; elementary schools are not mentioned by name. Elementary school articles are invariably vapid, containing daily schedules, lunch menus, teacher lists, and so forth that often run afoul of NOTDIRECTORY. This is the consensus that has emerged, it works. We don't need to spend half an hour every day fighting over overzealous deletionists challenging this high school or that or overzealous inclusionists arguing that Smalltown Elementary School should be included because the ''Smalltown Cryer'' and the ''Smalltown Community News'' each have run a couple articles on the school over the years. High schools which exist are in, elementary schools unless extraordinarily noteworthy are out, end of story. Now, here's the catch... For this system to work, there need to be redirection targets — articles on school districts. These entities should be treated like high schools, if their existence is confirmed, they should be in. The fact that these are lousy machine-created stubs should not detain us, Wikipedia needs these target pages, which WILL inevitably flesh out over time. If you want to call this an  defense, that's fine, although I think a careful consideration of the logic of this situation should support what I'm suggesting here
— User:Carrite, 18:21, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:IAR (Wikipedia:Ignore all rules)