Talk:Phillips Academy

Merger proposal: Paresky Commons

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.

The result of this discussion was that the Paresky Commons article should be merged into the Phillips Academy article. Per WP:MERGECLOSE, merger is appropriate because one week has passed since the merger was proposed, only two people responded (both supporting merger), and nobody else chose to weigh in (see WP:SILENCE).

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Hello, I propose merging Paresky Commons, Andover's dining hall, into the "Facilities" section of Phillips Academy. I don't see anything in the article that establishes general notability (I would be shocked to see any high school dining hall worthy of its own Wikipedia article unless it was an independently notable building later converted into a dining hall), and any non-duplicative interesting material (e.g. architect Charles Platt, Colonial Revival style, LEED Silver certification) can easily be folded into the existing Paresky Commons bullet point on the main article. I do not think that merging will cause any WP:UNDUE issues since Phillips Academy is already one of the longest secondary school articles on Wikipedia. In addition, I do not think merging will cause any article-size issues since Andover is a top-importance school article and the length is reasonable in comparison to Phillips Exeter Academy.

Per WP:PM, I am required to notify the relevant WikiProjects before executing a merge, as Phillips Academy is a B-Class article that "need[s] assistance from uninvolved editor(s) in determining whether to merge the pages." I have done so. I would also ping the the creator of the Paresky Commons page (User:TheBlueGodFathered), but two months after the article was published in February 2022, they were blocked for sockpuppetry; the underlying sock investigation indicated that the socking focused on other Andover-related topics. No other editors have made material contributions to the page since then. Namelessposter (talk) 16:15, 4 December 2024 (UTC)

Go for it, sounds like a very good idea. -- Melchior2006 (talk) 17:00, 4 December 2024 (UTC)

I support merging Pesky Commons with the already quite long Phillips Academy article because the Commons article as a standalone has notability issues. — Grand'mere Eugene (talk) 18:33, 4 December 2024 (UTC)

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Merger proposal for The Andover Inn

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.

The result of this discussion was that the Paresky Commons article should be merged into the Phillips Academy article. Per WP:MERGECLOSE, merger is appropriate because one week has passed since the merger was proposed and nobody else chose to weigh in (see WP:SILENCE).

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Hello, I propose merging The Andover Inn into the "Facilities" section of Phillips Academy. Just now, I attempted to refurbish the article to bring it up to standard and establish notability, but I had trouble finding sources to meet WP:GNG, suggesting that merger is appropriate. Most of the secondary sources actually relate to Stowe House, the historic building that previously occupied the Andover Inn site before it was moved to its present location on Bartlet Street. My one point of caution is that this page was created in 2011 by User:Qrsdogg (now @Mark Arsten), a future sysop. The page was created in evident good faith, but no other editors (except me) have made material changes to the page in the 14 years since Mark created it, which raises notability concerns.

The same merger principles from Talk:Phillips Academy#Merger proposal: Paresky Commons apply: the PA article is already quite long (not inappropriate for a top-importance school article), the material worth merging is fairly limited, and there is already some coverage of Stowe House on the main PA article.

As with Paresky Commons, WP:PM requires me to notify the relevant WikiProjects before executing a merge, as Phillips Academy is a B-Class article that "need[s] assistance from uninvolved editor(s) in determining whether to merge the pages." I have notified WikiProject Massachusetts and Mark, although the latter left Wikipedia in 2020. Namelessposter (talk) 20:40, 23 January 2025 (UTC)

Re-circulating merge proposal for watchlist convenience (I made a non-substantive edit to the talk page between posting the original proposal and now). Namelessposter (talk) 23:06, 23 January 2025 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.