Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Beaty Towers


 * 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. T. Canens (talk) 01:43, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

Beaty Towers

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Non-notable college residence hall. 28bytes (talk) 10:50, 28 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions.  —• Gene93k (talk) 19:02, 28 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Florida-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 19:02, 28 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep - Tom Petty wrote a song about this dorm (enough said). The 2 towers are very notable structures at the prestigious University of Florida as well. Jccort (talk) 01:38, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Tom Petty says he did not. I'm inclined to believe him. 28bytes (talk) 01:57, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:01, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete or Merge to University of Florida. (see below) There doesn't seem to be anything particularly notable about these dormitories; they are not significant historically or architecturally, and the Tom Petty connection is an urban legend which he says is not true. --MelanieN (talk) 14:27, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.


 * Delete and more I was going to say merge into List of University of Florida buildings but then I noticed that there are multiple entries there that appear similarly unimportant, yet they have articles. I suggest a large part of those entires be deleted too, as none of them deserve an entry anywhere else than FUs website. Nergaal (talk) 00:43, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Yikes, there are dozens of them! Some of them probably do deserve articles - such as the ones listed at University of Florida Campus Historic District - but the article you cite mentions every last building in loving detail, complete with photo. But on second glance the situation isn't as bad as it looks; for example, many of those blue-linked dormitories are actually redirects to University of Florida student housing rather than full articles. That seems appropriate. So I am changing my !vote from "Delete" to Redirect to University of Florida student housing.  --MelanieN (talk) 15:02, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

 Consensus is not clear; therefore I'm relisting this conversation. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,   ♪ ♫ Wifione ♫ ♪    ―Œ  ♣Łeave Ξ мessage♣  15:13, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep It doesn't really matter that the Tom Petty connection is just an urban legend, what matters is that the legend has generated coverage of the buildings. Merging is an editorial decision that can be worked out on the relevant talk pages. Pax:Vobiscum (talk) 08:56, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.


 * Keep per Pax, the legend is still an urban legend no matter whether or not it's true. Derild  49  21  ☼  16:02, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Reply - The urban legend is already covered in the American Girl (song) article. Why is the dorm itself — as opposed to the urban legend — notable? 28bytes (talk) 16:32, 11 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete -- notability not demonstrated in a reliable secondary source.  N2e (talk) 16:14, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep: Per Pax. - Ret.Prof (talk) 12:15, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete The purported encyclopedic content includes mostly material like this: "Beaty East has 13 floors and Beaty West has 14 floors. The third building is the Beaty's Common. Beaty's commons contains the area desk which is open 24 hours and residents use this to pick up packages, get keys in case they get locked out, or check out equipment for the rec room. In addition there is a rec room which contains pool tables, ping pong tables and foosball. There is also a large screen TV in the TV room. In addition to the recreation rooms there is also a study room. Finally, attached to the commons is Beaty Market which is open till 4am everyday. It a small convient store which is open to anyone who wants a quick bite to eat," I know it can be removed, and will be if the article is kept, but it indicates how little substantial there is to write about. The material on the purported suicide is already in American Girl (song), with almost exactly the same wording. After deletion, if someone should search for Beaty Towers in Wikipedia looking for what might be notable about it, that will remain one of the search results. It takes much more than this to make a college dormitory notable, & the only safe thing I know is to look for architectural notability, which is absent here. —Preceding unsigned comment added by DGG (talk • contribs)
 * Delete. The urban legend about the dorm might be notable, and is adequately covered at the article about the song. The dorm itself is not notable. -- Kinu t /c  04:21, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
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