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Primary and secondary schools

National Insurance Academy

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I don't see any sources by which to judge the school to be notable, with WP:NCORP being applicable to this private business institution. The sole reference in the article seems to be lost, but based on its title ("NIA: 100% placement with highest package of Rs 10.5 lakh per annum") and what had been referenced to it, it seems to have been a PR-push. (I don't think independent media are going out on their own to examine insurance academy placement rates and report on them.) Largoplazo (talk) 00:11, 3 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Trinity Baptist Temple Academy

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Found during WP:JUN25; I cannot find substantive coverage of this smallish private Christian academy that would suggests it meets WP:GNG, WP:NONPROFIT, or WP:NSCHOOLS. Hog Farm _Talk 01:44, 3 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete - School is too small for its own article. failing WP:GNG. ロドリゲス恭子 (talk) 18:41, 3 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

New Horizons College

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I can find no significant coverage about this school to establis notability. Whpq (talk) 03:55, 2 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Viqarunnisa University

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Fails WP:GNG. Niasoh ❯❯❯ Wanna chat? 14:42, 1 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete- Per request. Md Mobashir Hossain (talk) 09:41, 2 June 2025 (UTC) Keep Per a comment of MdsShakil in Bnwiki.[reply]
That only applies for Bangla Wiki, but not in English Wikipedia. We can not give it notable status only based on the fact that it has university status. Niasoh ❯❯❯ Wanna chat? 11:11, 2 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to Viqarunnisa Noon School and College, as a failed sister concern of the school.Vinegarymass911 (talk) 20:12, 4 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Merge - to Viqarunnisa Noon School and College is an agreeable move, as my findings show the article on its own lacks significant coverage.Lorraine Crane (talk) 15:10, 5 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Faculty of Nalanda College, Colombo

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As per WP:SCHOOLOUTCOMES, "faculties...within a...school are generally not considered notable unless they have made significant contributions to their field". There is no indication as to why this school's faculty qualify as notable. Most individuals on this list are non-notable. Any that are notable can be dealt with by Category:Faculty of Nalanda College, Colombo. Obi2canibe (talk) 12:16, 1 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete unnecessary article, any encyclopaedic material can be in the main school article. LibStar (talk) 23:34, 1 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: Fails WP:GNG and WP:NOT per WP:NOTDIR. Dclemens1971 (talk) 18:44, 4 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Surana College

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Routine article about college not shown to be notable from existing sourcing. No additional sources found via WP:BEFORE Ticoeditor (talk) 06:54, 1 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Saint Joseph Academy of San Jose Batangas

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Searches did not turn up enough in-depth coverage from independent, reliable sources to support meeting WP:GNG. Onel5969 ^{TT me} 22:39, 29 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete - 3 sources are created by the subject, and the 4th is a government directory. Because this school is in what we in the United States would call a "flyover" province, it just doesn't get any coverage. Ironically, it might be rated better for students than some schools in Metro Manila or even Cebu City. Bearian (talk) 00:12, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per above. No good alternative anchors to target in San Jose, Batangas --Lenticel ^(talk) 00:53, 5 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Lakshmi Narain College of Technology

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There is little to no independent sources to establish notability. Also most of it reads like WP:PROMO Flyingphoenixchips (talk) 22:43, 27 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Comment: In as much as there are multiple issues on this article, I suggest a clean up and proper citation, as an educational institution, Primary source could be considered, article needs clean up in content and references but let’s give this article a chance. Chippla ✍️ - Best Regards 21:57, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Shree Holy Family Higher Secondary School

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Single primary Source. No other significant online coverage available in independent sources. Rahmatula786 (talk) 15:46, 25 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete not finding Significant coverage for the subject on a brief web search so far, alternatively can be draftified if new sources can be found.Lorraine Crane (talk) 18:21, 27 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Redirect to Bhimdatta#Education as an ATD. मल्ल (talk) 15:35, 2 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Alliance High School (Kenya)

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Highschools are no longer considered to be inherently notable. This one fails WP:NSCHOOL. Referencing is abysmal. This is a WP:ROTM high school. 🇵🇸‍🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦‍🇵🇸 21:49, 24 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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My History

The History of the Alliance High School

J. Stephen smith published in 1973 would make a perfect reference 2C0F:FE38:2405:1F31:45CD:3778:2835:9D13 (talk) 04:44, 25 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
keep 99 years old Alliance High School in Kenya is not just any high school: it is the first in the country to offer education to African (boys) [1] and as such, has an important historical role. Its educational content and its influence on Ngugi wa Thiong'o (recently deceased) is analyzed at length in article Ngugi's Colonial Education: “The Subversion… of the African Mind” (2014)" from the perspective of colonial education. It relies on numerous sources, of which "Carey Francis at the A.H.S., Kikuyu", from Kipkurir B.E.Biographical Essays on Imperialism and Collaboration in Colonial Kenya and numerous issues of The ASH Magazine. If The Alliance High School and the origins of the Kenya Africa Elite, 1926-1962 is still unpublished [2], The history of the Alliance High School (1973) is still in libraries. --Pa2chant.bis (talk) 07:56, 29 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep as per the notable history of the school as explained above by Pa2chant.bis and the academic sources he has listed that show a pass of WP:GNG in my view, Atlantic306 (talk) 20:48, 1 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Olof Palme Primary School

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Run-of-the-mill elementary school. Some minor local coverage but nothing establishing notability. — Moriwen (talk) 15:57, 24 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete - run of the mill Primary School with no extraordinary achievements nor significant coverage. Bearian (talk) 03:11, 2 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Jhalakathi Government High School

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School does not appear to be notable upon search. The current sources in the article only prove that the school exists, and upon search, I can't seem to find any sources that would prove the subject is notable enough to warrant its own article. WormEater13 (talk • contribs) 15:49, 18 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep I found three independent, reliable sources containing significant coverage of the school.[3][4][5] The history section of the school website suggests some events for which additional coverage likely exists offline: establishment in 1872, nationalization in 1909, the loss of the school building to river erosion, the construction of a new building in 1974, and the 100th anniversary celebration in 2008. If there is no appetite to keep, the article should at a minimum be merged to Jhalokati Sadar Upazila#Education as an alternative to deletion. --Worldbruce (talk) 06:25, 25 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The references you provided are not from reliable resources. B-Factor 15:38, 26 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@B-Factor: What makes you think that Jagonews24.com and Somoy TV are not reliable? Searching books.google.com for "jagonews24" and "somoynews" shows that they're cited by a variety of academic books, indicating a pass of WP:USEBYOTHERS. --Worldbruce (talk) 18:14, 26 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete: Does not pass WP:NORG as there are no WP:RS to support. References used in the article are primary and not reliable. B-Factor 15:45, 26 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@B-Factor: Pinging you again in case you missed the first one. What makes you say that Jagonews24.com and Somoy TV are not reliable sources? --Worldbruce (talk) 04:34, 30 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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@Worldbruce -- I disagree with @B-Factor stating that the sources are unreliable. These sources may very well be reliable sources, but I have a few concerns.

Per WP:GNG, sources which are from the same outlet (Somoy News [6] [7]) count as one source when evaluated for whether they pass the notability guideline, so we're down to two sources that may (?) pass GNG. As for the Jagonews24.com source [8], I've also noticed that the author of the Jagonews24.com article uses "we" multiple times in that article when referencing the fear that students have expressed of the school's deteriorating condition. Does that imply that they may not be independent of the subject (e.g a student of the school)?

As for the Somoy News, [9] mostly has primary content (due to it being interviews). [10] seems to be the best source so far.

Also, I would like to ask a question. Even if the sources are further proved to pass WP:GNG, they don't have WP:SIGCOV of the school itself. WP:SIGCOV requires that the subject is discussed directly and in detail. What makes the school notable enough other than the fact that it exists to warrant its own article? I'm not opposed to a merge into Jhalokati Sadar Upazila#Education. WormEater13 (talk • contribs) 01:06, 2 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@WormEater13: Multiple stories by the same author or organization are usually (not always) aggregated for notability purposes. This is done because what is effectively one news story is frequently published over a multi-day news cycle. Each successive day's coverage is not a separate instance of people taking note of the topic. The two Somoy News stories are 18 months apart and about completely different aspects of the school, so I think this is one of the cases where they should not be treated as one.

As you say, Jagonews24.com uses "we" when referencing the fear that students have expressed. They also use a seemingly separate "we" when paraphrasing the headmaster, so it may just be the style of their writing. It's fair to question their independence; perhaps this belongs in the not sure column.

If stories about the building and faculty of a school are not about the school itself, I'm not sure what is. The stories all have primary source elements, but they are secondary with respect to other content. Jagonews24 describes when the school was established, the relative ages of their buildings, a past engineering inspection, short term plans considered a few years ago, and the headmaster's long term plan. Only one paragraph of the 2024 Somoy New article, which you characterize as mostly interviews, is interview. The other three paragraphs mention the school's 1872-1909 period under another name, when it was nationalized, when the two-story building was constructed, the size of the campus, and how many students are enrolled. The 2023 Somony News article synthesizes the reporter's own observation with what he learned from multiple parents, a "cultural organizer", and a district education officer.

Be that as it may, the above three are not the only sources. The general topics - the school's deteriorating infrastructure and the faculty's verbal, physical, and financial abuse of their pupils in connection with extracurricular coaching - has been covered by other reliable national media over a period of time: Dainik Shiksha (2018),[11] Desher Sangbad (2022),[12] Banglanews24.com (2023),[13] and Risingbd.com (2025),[14] for example. --Worldbruce (talk) 16:27, 3 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Worldbruce, thank you for your detailed response and for bringing light to these new sources. With the new sources that you have presented in your reply, I now believe that this school passes WP:GNG. I concur with a good amount of what your reply has stated. I will be changing my vote, as nominator, to Keep. Although, due to a delete !vote already being present, I cannot withdraw this nomination, so AfD will need to run its course. WormEater13 (talk • contribs) 23:52, 3 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Agree with Worldbruce. The references provided by WormEater13 are significant. This school meets WP:School criteria. CresiaBilli (talk) 15:10, 3 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@CresiaBilli: Welcome back to Wikipedia. I appreciate your keep recommendation, but would you care to clarify it? It's Worldbruce (me) who is arguing for keep. WormEater13 is arguing for delete. Their WP:BEFORE didn't find any sources, and they are questioning whether the ones I provided are any good. --Worldbruce (talk) 16:36, 3 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Worldbruce, My apologies. Thank You for the notification. I have fix my Typo. CresiaBilli (talk) 16:42, 3 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Universities and colleges

Sardar Vallabhbhai Global University

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Lacks notability. Sources are primary, press releases or passing mentions. No In depth coverage in independent media. Rahmatula786 (talk) 06:59, 25 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Dismiss. This a page for academics not for universities. Xxanthippe (talk) 07:05, 25 May 2025 (UTC).[reply]
I have updated. Plz have a look. Rahmatula786 (talk) 10:53, 25 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Lord Krishna College of Engineering

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There is nothing to salvage here. It uses only primary sources. Whatever sources are available online are mere trivial mention. So this cannot be merged as well. I would suggest a deletion or a redirect to List of colleges affiliated to the Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Technical University, Lucknow Flyingphoenixchips (talk) 21:02, 17 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect/merge to LNCT University - seems the institution is actually LNCT (Bhopal) Indore Campus per [15], as the address matches there, and primary links on LKCE article are actually with LNCT. No apparent indication that this is (directly) connected to Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Technical University, Lucknow Dl2000 (talk) 21:38, 17 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

LNCT does not seem notable either. I have nominated it for an AfD as well Flyingphoenixchips (talk) 15:55, 19 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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delete there doesnt seem to be SIGCOV. --hroest 19:07, 20 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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School or university organisations proposed for deletion

Taylors Lakes Secondary College (via WP:PROD on 20 March 2025)

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Schools

Primary and secondary schools

National Insurance Academy

Trinity Baptist Temple Academy

New Horizons College

Viqarunnisa University

Faculty of Nalanda College, Colombo

Surana College

Saint Joseph Academy of San Jose Batangas

Lakshmi Narain College of Technology

Shree Holy Family Higher Secondary School

Alliance High School (Kenya)

Olof Palme Primary School

Jhalakathi Government High School

Universities and colleges

Sardar Vallabhbhai Global University

Lord Krishna College of Engineering

Other school or university articles

Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies

School or university organisations proposed for deletion