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* '''Keep '''- per previous consensus. In reference to queries above, one’s school can be quite defining and highly notable. For example, when individuals become highly successful despite having attended a very poor school then that is often considered to make their success all the more remarkable. On the other hand, there are often many politicians who campaign against private or selective education, despite having benefited from said systems themselves and even sending their own children to the same types of schools. Such controversies alone have began defining elements of the careers of some such individuals.[[User:Shakehandsman|Shakehandsman]] ([[User talk:Shakehandsman|talk]]) 19:06, 5 April 2019 (UTC)

::Those are good arguments for mentioning information about education in the text of a biographical article (assuming the info can be sourced), but is it really defining? For example, most bio articles won't mention the person's high school in the lede. An article may contain hundreds (possibly thousands) of facts, but we don't categorize for most of those facts. <b>[[User:DexDor|DexDor]]</b>^{[[User talk:DexDor|(talk)]]} 20:34, 5 April 2019 (UTC)

:::Absolutely, and that's just one aspect of how their schooling defines them, there's all the other more standard reasons too in terms of the impact of ___location of the school, its culture and that of the surrounding area. When you take everything combined. one's schooling its often far more defining than other things we categorise. We happily put people's university in there, even though they often spend less than half the time at such an institution than they spend at school.[[User:Shakehandsman|Shakehandsman]] ([[User talk:Shakehandsman|talk]]) 00:12, 6 April 2019 (UTC)

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