User talk:Ckleefman

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School

Hi Ckleefman: I saw your inquiry at the Help Desk and thought I'd give you some general information. (Some of it can also be found via the links in the Welcome template above.) Basically, all new articles here must satisfy these basic requirements. Specific requirements for organizations, including schools, can be found here, but that's basically a longer version of the same thing. As you were told in response to your query, it boils down to whether there is significant independent coverage in reliable sources (such as newspapers). Historically, secondary schools have been relatively easy to establish this for, and elementary/primary schools relatively hard, but some elementary/primary schools have a long history or have otherwise achieved what we call notability, so don't be discouraged. Find what you can and write up a neutral article citing your sources. I suggest creating it through our articles for creation process; that way one or more experienced Wikipedians will look at it and if it isn't ready for mainspace, give you advice on how you can make it ready; if you create it directly in mainspace, there's a risk of its being nominated for deletion if there are problems with it. The page I linked tells you how to do this, but basically, you would either create the article at Draft:Name of school or do the same by clicking the big blue button on that page; you can save that draft and come back to it as many times as you wish; then when you are ready for it to be reviewed, copy this at the top: {{subst:submit}}. School articles often have an "infobox": here's where the (very long!) blank for that lives, and there are instructions and examples there for filling in what's appropriate for the kind of school and the country. The infobox goes before the text of the article. I hope this is helpful. Articles for creation is also recommended for conflict of interest editors, so don't worry too much about what was said about that at the Help Desk, but you will need to write the article neutrally—just the facts—and we obviously hope you'll stick around and write articles about other things after this first one :-) Good luck! Yngvadottir (talk) 15:12, 23 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]