Talk:Bay of Islands International Academy

This page should not be speedy deleted because...

This page should not be speedily deleted because... it simply describes a new New Zealand public (non-commerical) school, opening in 6 months time. There are numerous examples of other New Zealand schools (both public and private) with Wikipedia entries and this school is no less wikipedia-worthy than those schools. See, for example, Auckland Grammar School (large, public NZ school) and Springbank School (smaller, private, NZ School). UPDATE: I have edited the page for greater neutrality and to eliminate anything that could be considered "promotional". --Dchandler (talk) 05:13, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

• I find the second "paragraph" still possibly slightly promotional, but not enough to delete it speedily. Non-speedily, maybe. Schools, in general, are suitable for Wikipedia, but if the information isn't verifiable, the article is likely to be deleted. A self-published Wordpress site is unlikely to meet that criterion. Surely there must be government-published information somewhere? Local newspaper reports of the planned opening? Something of that nature? WilyD 07:44, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

That's a very fair comment WilyD. The school info launch just went public today. Smaller rural NZ schools have tiny budgets use free resources like Wordpress in order to direct more funds to raising student achievement. Published press coverage is scheduled for next Thursday. (We're a small community with only weekly press. We're half a world away from New York City.) The NZ Ministry of Education is expected to formally gazette the approval for the school in due course, but the wheels of government run on their own schedule, so possibly not until the opening in 2013. To keep this brief, I'd agree that if we don't start to deliver on the third-party verifications, then deletion is appropriate, but just for a little while let's give this one the benefit of the doubt. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dchandler (talk • contribs) 08:22, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

• It might then be sensible, rather than trying to hold off people complaining that the article isn't verifiable (if they arrive, they often do), to move the article to your userspace, where you can work on a draft until you've got sufficient sources that other people can confirm all the information, eh? It might play out in a lot of different ways, but getting into a protracted deletion discussion is likely to cause you a lot of grief. Just a caution. WilyD 08:35, 19 July 2012 (UTC)