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Inclusion of schools in Wikipedia has recently been a controversial topic: which schools are worth being included in Wikipedia? Do schools have an intrinsic value like towns which should be given recognition and room for inclusion here in Wikipedia?

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User:Dpbsmith
From: Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Bancroft_School
At: 17:21, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Seriously, it is funny. Don't lose your perspective on this. The biggest problem with the schools business is that people are getting intense about it. It doesn't matter that much. Everybody, just keep calling 'em as you see 'em, list them in VfD if you think they should be deleted, put in your votes in VfD, give short reasons, try gently to influence others. But don't anybody kid yourselves. A thousand stubs about non-notable schools simply doesn't matter much one way or the other.
  1. Deleting them all is not going to alienate valuable contributors.
  2. Deleting them is not a heroic act that is preventing a breach in a dyke that is holding back the North Sea.
  3. Including them is not going to induce rich alumni to donate to Wikimedia.
  4. Including them is not going to lower peoples' opinion of Wikipedia enough to matter. Almost nobody reads these articles. They just don't matter much. The only people who care about them are the people who contribute them and the people who argue about them in VfD. If you're spending too much time in VfD dealing with schools, go off and do something else. All be the same in a hundred years.

Template for Singapore schools

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This is a template that I've customised for Singapore schools from User:Gerald Farinas.

-School Name-
Name

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Abbreviation

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School Code

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Chinese Name

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Pinyin

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Malay

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Tamil

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Address

Add (eg 1 East Coast Road)

Country

Singapore

Town

Add (e.g. Bedok)

Established

4-Digit Year

Community

Urban

Type

Government -or- Government-aided -or- Autonomous -or- Independent -andthen- Primary -or- Secondary -or- Junior College -or- Centralised Institute

Religion

Secular -or- Religion

Students

Co-educational -or- Boys -or- Girls

Levels

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Colours

Colour 1, Colour 2, Colour 3

Motto

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Newspaper

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Yearbook

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Distinctions

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Website

Link

Email

Link

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