Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/California Institute of Technology trustees

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The result of the debate was no concensus. - Mailer Diablo 05:18, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

California Institute of Technology trustees
This text is of dubious encyclopedic nature, and shouldn't exist by itself. Long lists of people who donate lots of money to institutions don't really belong in university/college articles, as it is somewhat arbitrary and often information on the trustees themselves already exists separately on WP and on official instution websites. Delete Bumm13 10:12, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Seems to me like it would be useful documentation. I would delete only if the information is duplicated somewhere else on WP -- Corey.spring 10:32, August 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. I do not understand the reasoning behing this nomination. The list of trustees of an institution is very well defined.  This nomination seems to equate the trustees to major donors, when, in fact, the board of trustees of an university is like the board of directors of a corporation. ManoaChild 10:35, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete unless the article can demonstrate a reason for maintaining this list (which will change from year to year and will always be public record.) Notable trustees can have their own articles. Sdedeo 16:57, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Notable. Too long to merge into California Institute of Technology. -- BD2412 talk 18:26, August 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep as per Corey.spring --Apyule 02:27, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: If the article is kept, it think it would be preferable if it was not just a list of current trustees, as that will soon be dated unless maintained, but a historical list, including all trustees in chronological order from the foundation of the school with years for their election and resignation. There seem to be enough people around here interested in Caltechcruft to make such a list. BTW, noting that the list was uncategorized, I just added a new Caltech category to contain this and other Caltech-related articles. Please categorize any articles I missed. Uppland 04:54, 22 August 2005 (UTC) (Changed "weak keep" to just a neutral "comment", not convinced either way. Uppland 07:03, 22 August 2005 (UTC))
 * Delete My feeling is that the encyclopedic nature isn't dubious, it's non-existent. The Literate Engineer 06:40, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. This is just a list of people copied from the Caltech website. Since the Caltech webpage will always be the more authoritative source, that page should be an external link in the Caltech article, and this page should be deleted. Iff the article is changed from just a list of names, to an explanation of the duties and responsibilities of the trustees of Caltech, and the list is pared down to only the most notable names (plus notable trustees from the past), then my vote would change from delete to weak keep. Blank Verse   &empty;  10:56, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

This is a problem known as latency in software engineering; duplicating a list maintained elsewhere risks getting out of date. I vote for deletion. Pdn 15:59, 25 August 2005 (UTC) (PhD Caltech 1960)


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