Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Germantown Friends School alumni

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The result was merge‎ to Germantown Friends School as a natural ATD. Owen× ☎ 00:31, 13 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

List of Germantown Friends School alumni[edit]

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Fails NLIST, sources not found showing this has been discussed as a group by independent reliable sources. // Timothy :: talk 15:54, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. There is no independent sourcing here, the list seems to have resulted from inside sources, therefore this list rests on an unreliable NPOV and is probably very one-sided. We have no way of knowing about all the "other" alumni who are not listed here, perhaps because they don't convey the same flattering message. -- Melchior2006 (talk) 17:01, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Lists of people, Schools, and Pennsylvania. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 17:05, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep or merge / redirect to Germantown Friends School I'm not sure if a WP:BEFORE check was done, but a spot check shows that the overwhelming majority of the individuals listed are notable and that the standard of WP:NLIST is met and will be further enhanced by the addition of reliable and verifiable sources for those already listed. Worst case is that the list should be merged and redirected back to the article for Germantown Friends School, which is where it started in the first place. Either way, non-notables should be removed and more sources added in addition to the ones I have added and plan to add. Alansohn (talk) 19:38, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Merge back to parent article. Not convinced there is any need for a separate article. Ajf773 (talk) 21:45, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Merge back to parent article as is standard for these lists. Mangoe (talk) 22:40, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Don't merge because the list is too long for the ex-parent article. --Melchior2006 (talk) 06:30, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to Germantown Friends School. Although not an independently notable list per NLIST, there is guidance somewhere about splitting out lists of notable people from articles where the list becomes excessively long. I think the guidance may actually be for places rather than schools, but it is good advice where the list overwhelms the article. Some of those lists can have hundreds of entries. In this case the list has a very impressive 43 named notable alumni. That is a lot for a school, but is it so excessive that a spin out is required? I don't think so. The list is unlikely to grow significantly from here, and 43 is by no means excessive. I also note that we have a category giving the same list as a standalone page. This page would be better placed in the school article. I note that Melchior2006 has a different opinion on that, but there is no SIZERULE case for a split, and the solution to the size of screenspace absorbed by this list would be to expand the article. With this many notable alumni there must be more that could be said about this school. Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 07:48, 9 May 2024 (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.