2012/4/1 Ashwin Baindur <ashwin.baindur(a)gmail.com> I'm sorry but I don't agree with this. There is no such thing as "slave to notability". We are an encyclopedia and that is why we have guidelines and policies that define what subjects will be notable or not. And there is no "we" here, all notability rules are universal on our project - you can't have one set of rules for articles about India and others for the rest of the world. The English Wikipedia community will never agree with it. A school may qualify to be listed among "List of schools in district X" type of list articles if and only if they are listed on a government-related website or a reliable third-party source. _______________________________________________

Ashwani, Trust me, I too get frustrated by "notability Slavery" but their is a point in this. You see, notability does not mean fame, it means the ability to independently verify whats written in an article. Let's say that you mention that the principal of the school is X and a year later the real principal of the school, let's say Y comes back and says that no, I am the Principal then Wikipedia would be forced to chose between your word and Y's. To avoid this kind of confrontation Wikipedia always asks you to source your information to a reliable source such as a newspaper, book etc. so, when such a confrontation arises, Wikipedia can mention that this is what the published information said at that time and also show that you did not have any malicious intentions for pushing X's name.  I hope this clears the air about Notability, now getting down to schools in general. The Wikipedia guidelines states that the school should be subject to independent coverage for its curriculum etc. A good point of start could be sports events, cultural events etc. for which a school might have been published. Even school toppers get covered sometimes. I know this might force you print certain facts and withhold some others, and this might change the presentation a bit. But remember at all times that all articles on Wikipedia belong to everybody and many different people work on an article over its evolution. you can always start a small article with some verifiable facts and leave it to others to fill in the blanks. Happy editing and do reply if you need any help. Regards   Shagnik Saraswati, Mob: +918802424179 ________________________________ From: Ashwin Baindur <ashwin.baindur(a)gmail.com> To: Wikimedians working on India related content on English Wikipedia & related projects. <wikimedia-in-en(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Sent: Sunday, April 1, 2012 9:52 AM Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-in-en] WP: Notability (schools) / Schools in India. ( was earlier : AFD Shree Jaykorbai Vidyamandir) We got to get out of this "slave to notability" mindset. We need to develop our own rulesets. If we feel it doesn't deserve an article of its own we could have these listed in a "List of schools in district X" type of catchall. Ashwin 2012/3/25 Ramesh N G <rameshng(a)gmail.com> Fully agree with u Tinu, thats a trend that if it isnt in google..it doesnt exist... We have seen this issue in ml wiki much before while the kerala govt has started the schoolwiki.in, a similar trend of adding schools article gone high in ml.wikipedia. The problem is notability, -- Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur ------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-in-en mailing list Wikimedia-in-en(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-en