Talk:Kilmer Middle School

Article Checklist for "Kilmer Middle School"

Workgroup category or categories	Education Workgroup [Categories OK]
Article status	Developed article: complete or nearly so
Underlinked article?	Yes
Basic cleanup done?	Yes
Checklist last edited by	Petréa Mitchell 21:53, 5 April 2007 (CDT)

To learn how to fill out this checklist, please see CZ:The Article Checklist.

---

Feasibility

Here is a perfect test case for my own principles regarding article "feasibility." It seems to me that if we can have an article about Kilmer Middle School, we need to be able to have articles about every Middle School in the U.S., and equivalent schools in other English-speaking countries (at least!). And we need to be able to keep all such articles current (so the teacher lists don't go out of date) and otherwise of reasonably high quality.

Will that be possible anytime in the next, say, few years? How is Wikipedia doing in this regard? We can take that as an indication for CZ. --Larry Sanger 01:32, 30 November 2006 (CST)

This article would not survive in this format even in wikipedia. In general, lists such as faculty should be heavily discouraged since they will be outdated so soon and they are mostly unnotable people (in the encyclopedic sense). I think a google search and the school district pages will always be a better resource. I would suggest we only need articles on the most important schools from a historical or novelty factor. Chris Day (Talk) 02:42, 30 November 2006 (CST)

Well, that's what I fear, but I'd like to see some other viewpoitns on this. --Larry Sanger 13:26, 30 November 2006 (CST)

Am I missing something??

I'm sorry, but what is this doing as an article?? It seems silly to have this. What about this school is notable? I think this should be deleted. Kelly Patterson 22:23, 19 April 2007 (CDT)

I agree with what everyone's said so far: what's the use of merely documenting the bare existence of a school? Even if someone diligently maintained the list of faculty, and even a list of notable alumni, I still wouldn't see the appropriateness of such trivia. I'm particularly interested in seeing articles on schools that document the school's history and the ways a particular school is involved with its surrounding community, and its social contexts (generally speaking). I think any obscure school could make for a fine article as long as its history could be told such that its intersection with larger surrounding historical considerations are clear and worthy of note. If one could document, for example, the way a U.S. school handled racial and ethnic issues throughout the different decades of its history, or perhaps how its educational policies fared through different economic periods, I think that would make for a worthy article regardless of how obscure or typical the school may be. There's probably a better place to raise this discussion, particularly since my comment is going to get deleted along with this article! Nathaniel Dektor 13:02, 20 April 2007 (CDT)