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The result was merge‎ to Bourbon County, Kentucky. asilvering (talk) 21:24, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Disputed draftification. WP:DRAFTOBJECT prevents unilateral return to Draft, so we are at AfD. Schools and school districts are no longer inherently notable. Fails WP:NORG as presented here. Suggesting Draftify pending further work. 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 09:06, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Organizations, Education, Schools, and Kentucky. 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 09:06, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit 13:10, 11 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete/Merge I would say merge with Bourbon County, Kentucky. Not notable enough for its own page. ContentEditman (talk) 23:34, 11 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - school districts were not covered by the discussion that removed the presumption of notability from secondary schools. School districts were then, and are now considered as a unit of government, at least in the United States. They still carry a strong presumption of notability per the gazateer purpose of Wikipedia. . 4.37.252.50 (talk) 04:07, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Sandstein 14:16, 18 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge to Bourbon County, Kentucky (and trim down). Article is sourced entirely to statistics; there is no significant secondary coverage as needed by WP:NSCHOOL. The fact that it's a school district, not a school, seems beside the point. There are thousands of school districts in the US, and for most of them there is no information available beyond statistics; they don't need articles. WeirdNAnnoyed (talk) 17:31, 18 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  Again, NSCHOOL does not apply. School districts are not educational institutions, they are units of government. They have elections, they levy taxes, they have fixed boundaries. In some states, school districts are referred to as "school cities". The fact that they levy taxes and hold elections guarantees there will be coverage somewhere. There is no requirement that sources be online. Wikipedia is not just an encyclopedia. By policy, it is also a GAZETTEER. 4.37.252.50 (talk) 20:47, 20 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge selectively to Bourbon County, Kentucky. WP:GAZETTEER is an essay, not policy. A broad consensus exists that Wikipedia is a gazetteer, from which WP:GEOLAND is derived, but nothing here fits those criteria. There is no presumption of notability. Articles need sources to be written. If we do not have secondary sources, there should not be an article. Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 10:33, 21 January 2025 (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.