Talk:Harding Academy (Nashville)

message: This is probably already covered in the article; it was improperly added to the Dab:
: a Kindergarten-8th grade private school on Harding Place in Nashville, Tennessee.() 
: Although the Nashville Harding Academy is located in the building formerly occupied by Harding Place Church of Christ, its website says that it is a "non-sectarian" school.
--Jerzy•t 21:16, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed material from Dab 

message: This isn't Yelp, it's Wikipedia. Can someone get rid of the opinionated stuff?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.30.253.94 (talk) 11:34, 20 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  "I would recommend it to all" 

message: The history of Harding Academy is supported by references from the Nashville Tennessean.  This may be uncomfortable to supporters of the school, but Wikipedia is not censored. While the current situation may be different, the history remains.
Mission statements (a) are not recommended in Wikipedia articles, see WP:MISSION, and (b) should not be supported by references from subject-controlled websites. Rhadow (talk) 16:02, 5 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  School history 

message: Got it. I think. KE (talk) 17:51, 5 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Two Thumbs Up 

message: I've redirected this article to the community it is located in. It clearly fails WP:GNG and hence should be redirected per WP:SCHOOLOUTCOMES and WP:SCH/AG#N. Obviously, if there is articulatable disagreement, revert and we can discuss. Although the sources for the seg academy bit are sufficient to verify the facts, they lack the detail needed to show notability. Historically, having highly notable alumni was a reason to keep a lower school, but of late, we've moved more to a position that alumni are not relative to notability per WP:INHERIT. John from Idegon (talk) 14:17, 6 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I support redirecting. Billhpike (talk) 15:35, 6 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text:  Note that this school is not to be confused with Ezell Harding Christian School Billhpike (talk) 15:43, 6 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Also unrelated to Harding Academy (Memphis), which was not created as a seg academy but ballooned in size during integration.Jacona (talk) 19:20, 6 January 2018 (UTC)

text: I'm OK with redirecting, not because of the COI issues, but because that's what we usually do with primary and middle schools and this school is definitely low on the notability scale. If desired, we could open the discussion to a larger audience by taking it to WP:AfD, but in my opinion, that's only if someone objects to the redirect. Jacona (talk) 19:19, 6 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: HelloJacona -- Fine. Do it.  Don't lose the sag-acad stuff. I don't really care about the lawsuit. The non-discrimination stuff I put in just o head off the editor who will return in a week. Rhadow (talk) 19:25, 6 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, John from Idegon. I remember when I was new and an experienced editor was, at least in my eyes, screwing me over. It was very painful. You took the time to help me, I'm trying to pass it forward. Thanks again.Jacona (talk) 00:50, 7 January 2018 (UTC)

text: Redirection seems to be the right course here, a non-notable non-secondary school (I didn't look at the history when I fiddled with a few details here earlier, or I'd have seen what was going on). If segregation academies are a "thing" in American social/racial/academic history (and I wouldn't know whether they are or not), then perhaps the redirect target should be :List of segregation academies? Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 21:55, 6 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Justlettersandnumbers, the tradition is to redirect to the school district or the locality.Jacona (talk) 23:24, 6 January 2018 (UTC)

text: Indeed, , references are needed (actually I already knew that). That it was a segregation academy was, as I recall, about the only properly-referenced claim in the page before it was redirected. Anyway, I'm done with this, please leave me out of any future discussion. Thanks, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 23:24, 6 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: By the way, I would respectfully, but strongly disagree that every private school founded between 1954 and 1975 had some sort of racial motivation. I would probably agree if qualified with "most" and "in the Southern United States". That is very important, because to categorically identify the actions of many, many independent people and organizations without evidence is prejudice and bigotry. If we take false actions based on that prejudice, we're committing unfair discrimination. I would not want to be guilty of that!!!Jacona (talk) 13:40, 7 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Hello Jacona -- An editor's perception of history is different from his or her duty to write in an encyclopedic tone and back everything with references. There are 120 segregation academy articles. That number is unlikely to grow beyond 200. Each will be as carefully researched as the other. I recommend you to Talk:Segregation_academy#Corrections_and_consistency. Rhadow (talk) 14:10, 7 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, I've been there many times already, and contributed to the discussion there.Jacona (talk) 16:42, 7 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redirected