Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Auburn University Physics Department


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The result was   delete.  MBisanz  talk 00:48, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

Auburn University Physics Department

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Individual department in a medium quality research university .The department is not particular notable among physics departments, no is it world-famous. Normally, we restrict articles on individual departments to that. I note the only 3rd party references are to various faculty publications-- except for the most famous departments, this will usually be the case, which is why they almost always fail notability

There is nothing here that is not covered in the departments web site. and almost everything about the academic program will be of interest only to students there or prospective students.

But at least unlike many similar articles, it does not seem to have any copyvio.  DGG ( talk ) 05:13, 31 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Education-related deletion discussions.  Mephistophelian  (contact)  16:04, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions.  Mephistophelian  (contact)  16:04, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 14:33, 2 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete in the absence of evidence (and reliable and in-depth third party sources) that this department holds some particular distinction relative to other physics departments, and in the absence of an article on a larger academic unit containing it to merge this article into. —David Eppstein (talk) 05:38, 4 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Yunshui 雲 &zwj; 水  09:20, 7 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete Only references are to primary refs, namely four academic papers published by faculty. No Department of any research institution in the US has less than four publications; the refs do not argue for WP:N. No mention of why this particular Department is more or less notable than other Departments, or Physics Departments of other schools. Lack of secondary or independent refs indicating quality or notability of this department. Article has been up a year, no improvement, hence "delete".--Anonymous209.6 (talk) 16:14, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Comment - I have nothing to respond to the nom by DGG. However, at some point, we need  a guideline for the notability of academic departments.  This one has 21 'lines' and has produced some major research. Bearian (talk) 21:17, 13 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete simply fails notability per WP:GNG. --Odie5533 (talk) 14:22, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
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