Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Birrong Girls High School
long-established precedent surely isn't a sound basis? ''We've done this before, let's continue doing it'' isn't really a policy or a guideline, is it? Personally, I feel that if ''all'' high schools are to be automatically counted as notable, for example, because a search of local papers would find sources we could use, then (1) this should be made explicit wikipedia '''policy''' - we should have a vote on this somewhere and finalise it. (2) couldn't the same argument be made for all primary/elementary schools, colleges, universities? So perhaps we should have a policy that states that all educational establishments are always counted as notable, no matter where they are, how they are licenced, how many students they have, etc. I'm not being flippant here -  every other organisation on wikipedia has to have |reliable sources - why should schools be treated any differently. Part of the notability for a school (whether primary or higher) should surely be that it either offers something different to the average school, or has a few notable alumni (who would have articles on here). Where would we start a formal discussion on the adoption (or otherwise) of school notability being automatic
— User:Phantomsteve, 07:30, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:RELY (Wikipedia:Reliable sources)