Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/University Hall (University of St Andrews)

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was delete. Proto::► 12:24, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] University Hall (University of St Andrews)

University Hall (University of St Andrews) (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Sprung to life in suspiciously substantial form, but we don't have articles on halls of residence unless they can demonstrate substantial external coverage. Guy (Help!) 20:54, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

• Delete - just any old regular university hall, I don't see why we need an article on this. Jayden54 21:22, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
• Delete Non-notable random Halls of Residence location, WP:BIO refers. (aeropagitica) 22:23, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
• Keep On the main wikipedia page for the University of St Andrews there are already multiple links to other halls of residence. For data accurancy the largest hall should be included in the listings. This information is vital for those browsing for university selection etc. This hall has a lot of history associated with it as it is the oldest student accomodation in Scotland and is one of the oldest official student accomodations in the english speaking world. User:univega192 23:50, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
• Speedy G12. Copyvio from [1]. Tevildo 00:40, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
• Keep Article has been completely refurbished, there should be no problem with the content now, this is my first wiki article, sorry for any inconvenience. univega192 03:00, 4 January 2007 (UTC) (Edit: word struck to avoid double-counting. Ohconfucius 06:06, 4 January 2007 (UTC))
• Neutral for now. Copyvio material substantially re-written. Tevildo 04:21, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
• Delete. University Halls of residence are not notable by default per abundant precedence. This one may be the oldest hall, but aged does not imply notability. Nothing else in the article indicates why it should stay. Prospective students' first port of call will be the University's own website. Ohconfucius 06:02, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
• Keep as re-written verifiable information absolutely no reason to delete it. These are very prominent buildings in St Andrews and of architectural merit. There's several other Halls from the same university that the nom has being crusading against. Why not merge them instead of this silly campaign? --Doc^g 14:24, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

• Comment verifiability is the first and foremost requirement, not the only one. It has to be notable too (please als refer to User:Uncle G/On notability), otherwise we will start seeing articles on all minor listed buildings in the same manner as we have had for TV and radio mast stubs, electricity pylons, etc. Ohconfucius 01:59, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

• Delete. No notability, and no assertion of it either. yandman 16:39, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
• Keep Halls of residence have been organised into the category University of St Andrews halls of residence. This seems to be the normal approach for posting halls of residences for British Universities on Wikipedia (for example: University of Bristol Halls of Residence, University of Manchester halls of residence, University of Reading halls of residence, etc.) --John345er 01:20, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

• Comment: please don't confuse notability of the subject with organisational structure within Wikipedia. This hall is one which few outside the University will have heard of or would ever want to find out about, and those who are interested will go directly to the horse's mouth. Unless anyone can find reliable sources attesting to its importance, it should be deleted. Putting several non-notable articles together just reduces the number of articles on non-notable subjects, and does not make for more encyclopaedic content. Ohconfucius 02:02, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

• Delete article offers no evidence of notability. Nuttah68 15:27, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
• Delete. No assertion of notability. Full of non encyclopedic material. If there is anything of note if can be merged into the school article. Vegaswikian 07:29, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
• Delete No assertion of notability. "Your dormitory" (or residence hall) is the fourth bullet on Wikipedia:List of bad article ideas. For the argument articles for other halls exist Wikipedia:Inclusion is not an indicator of notability is worth reading - if they are of similar quality they also should go, if significantly better than they aren't relevant. GRBerry 03:28, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

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.