Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cabot House (2nd nomination)


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The result was   keep. j⚛e deckertalk 05:09, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

Cabot House
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College dorm that has not been the subject of significant coverage in secondary sources independent of the school. Hirolovesswords (talk) 18:25, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Note There are separate AFDs running on 4 of 13 Harvard residence houses:
 * Articles for deletion/Cabot House (2nd nomination)
 * Articles for deletion/Currier House (Harvard College)
 * Articles for deletion/Dudley House (Harvard College)
 * Articles for deletion/Mather House (Harvard University)
 * As they have separate differing sources, they need separate consideration, but are related. -- do ncr  am  22:26, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Massachusetts-related deletion discussions.  B E C K Y S A Y L E S  20:46, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
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 * Comment Hey, can this be combined to Articles for deletion/Mather House (Harvard University), instead, as a wp:MULTIAFD. I was proposing there mergers to a combo list-article.  Hope this can be procedurally closed. -- do  ncr  am  21:24, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I've found that at least one of Harvard's houses (Quincy) has received significant coverage. Therefore, I believe that there is a chance that at least one of these articles could stand on its own merits and therefore they should be nominated separately. --Hirolovesswords (talk) 21:51, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Okay, separate AFDs. I added note above and at other 3 for editors to navigate between them though. -- do  ncr  am  22:26, 27 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Keep. Notable as architecture, as part of a notable institution, and as part of the biographies of notable persons. --Tryptofish (talk) 21:37, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Notable as architecture? Based on what sources? Also, WP:Notability is not inherited. --Hirolovesswords (talk) 21:45, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
 * : omit the ones published by Harvard, and you still satisfy WP:GNG. And these nominations smell of WP:IDONTLIKEIT. --Tryptofish (talk) 21:53, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I don't see any source that provides significant coverage. --Hirolovesswords (talk) 21:54, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Actually, given the subject's history, I should also have linked this: . There are plenty of independent sources giving significant coverage, and there is particular relevance to the merging of Harvard and Radcliffe. --Tryptofish (talk) 22:01, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Once again, I see many passing mentions, but no significant coverage. --Hirolovesswords (talk) 22:11, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Hirolovesswords has a point. In those searches the first-page results that I've clicked on have just passing mentions.  I tend to think the topic is notable, that there will be substantial coverage, but where are specific links to online sources that have it?  Offline sources okay too, of course. -- do  ncr  am  22:26, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
 * ,, , , , , . I've done searches both for Cabot House and South House, which was the previous name. As with the other pages nominated, I recognize that we can have some good faith arguments about what constitutes significant coverage, but I think that, especially with the relevance of this House to women at Harvard, the page passes GNG. --Tryptofish (talk) 23:35, 27 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Keep As this is covered in works such as Harvard: An Architectural History. Andrew D. (talk) 00:22, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep ... not to mention . EEng (talk) 14:14, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: Listed at Talk:Harvard University and Talk:Harvard College. --Tryptofish (talk) 17:58, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
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 * Keep as per WP:GNG or the more specific WP:GEOFEAT. Multiple sources indicate that this architecture is of historic importance.--218.81.14.78 (talk) 12:21, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
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