Talk:Institute of Arctic Biology

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This article contains valid encyclopedic content describing scientific research programs of the University of Alaska Fairbanks. UAF isn't notable merely because it has "University" in its name. UAF has fallen behind UAA in enrollment in recent decades. What has kept UAF "on the radar" within Alaska has been its emphasis on scientific research, particularly in the fields of astrophysics, biological sciences and oceanography. IAB and the Geophysical Institute have been at the forefront of that research for most of the university's existence. Additionally, included amongst biological research but not mentioned in the article is the Large Animal Research Station, whose viewing area along Yankovich Road is a major Fairbanks-area tourist attraction. This falls within one of the pillars of UAF's mission statement, namely public service.

In summary, I reiterate that this is valid encyclopedic content relating to a notable entity. The real issue here is whether it belongs in its own article or somewhere else in the encyclopedia. There has been an ongoing problem of haphazard content forking in coverage of the University of Alaska. It should be obvious why, as there are far fewer warm bodies working on this sort of thing compared with, say, Disney or The Simpsons or South Park. I don't have time to fix everyone's messes for them. I barely have time for this, but the mad deletionist bent I've witnessed across Wikipedia lately resembles spiteful trashing of the contributions of certain editors (mostly long gone and therefore not in a position to defend their contributions) more than anything else. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 22:39, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Notability on wikipedia is defined in terms of our notability guideline which talks about evidence of significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject and secondary sources. This stub has neither. Stuartyeates (talk) 01:14, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
 * I really don't care to repeat myself. However, since it's obvious that you're not listening, let me repeat myself.  You're proposing to diminish the encyclopedic value of coverage of the University of Alaska Fairbanks because you have a bug up your ass about the construction of this particular article.  UAF isn't notable merely because it has "University" in its name.  UAF is notable because it does things which makes it notable.  Biological sciences research ranks right near the top of the things which UAF does which makes it notable.  Is there a problem with understanding this?  The notability guideline isn't going to read Wikipedia content and deduce that it lacks credibility.  Real people out in the real world, however, are going to do just that, so it's necessary to keep them in mind, too.  When coverage of the University of Alaska has devolved into a series of POV forks about its hockey teams and student governments, because people who obviously don't know any better and don't care to know any better have trashed the rest of the coverage in the quest of satisfying their deletionist hard-ons, don't come crying to me to fix it. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions  11:35, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
 * I have copied the above discussion to Articles for deletion/Institute of Arctic Biology where it belongs once a serious objection has been raised. Stuartyeates (talk) 19:30, 30 January 2014 (UTC)