Talk:Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy

how to improve this page?
Hi there, I'm a new Wikipedia editor, and I'm wondering how to improve this page. I've compared it to a similar page (Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy) and found them to be similar, so I'm not sure why this one was flagged as problematic. I'd appreciate any input. Thanks! Shall.writing (talk) 18:26, 29 January 2024 (UTC)


 * Hi @Shall.writing, sorry about this, I've actually redirected the article to Cornell University because I don't think it's independently notable (yet). It's very new, so there isn't really any way for it to pass the requirements for notability at WP:NCORP, even if we try to bootstrap it a bit with the (implied) academic-related guidelines at WP:NPROF. It may become notable in the future, but that's a pretty high bar. You're better off adding a brief section on it somewhere at Cornell University - just a sentence or two.
 * Regarding the comparison to Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, there are some important differences: first, that school has existed for more than 100 years already, so we have more, theoretically, to say about it; second, that article was created about 15 years ago, so it wasn't getting the same kind of scrutiny that new articles are now. If you made that exact article as it stands now from scratch today, you'd get the same tags - I don't see much in the way of independent sourcing on it. Articles like that stick around for two reasons: because no one's come along to fix them yet; or because no one's bothered to try to delete them yet. I wouldn't start a deletion discussion for the Ford School because of its age (I assume I'd be able to find enough signficant coverage if I looked hard enough), so I assume it's in the former category.
 * Sorry to have redirected your first article, I know that's a huge bummer. (Less of a bummer than having it go through the WP:AFD process and be deleted entirely though, I think.) I'd advise that you stay away from creating articles on anything that might fall under the rules at WP:NCORP for a while, because they're really quite strict compared to lots of other notability guidelines we have. -- asilvering (talk) 20:00, 29 January 2024 (UTC)