Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases


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The result was redirect to University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine. Clear consensus not to retain the article. Any editor is welcome to merge the content from behind the redirect if they so desire. Daniel (talk) 00:24, 15 December 2021 (UTC)

Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases

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I doubt this research institute in notable. It fails WP:NORG by not having independent coverage of its activities. Currently, the article is composed of unsourced puffery about how great CRND is (no mergeable material), with one citation to a website run by the research institute. The best sources that could be found so far was this article published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. It details that Peter St. George-Hyslop (a director at the centre) made an important discovery relating to Early-onset Alzheimer's disease at the university, more specifically a gene that causes most cases of it. However, the article deals exclusively with Peter St. George-Hyslop, and does not even mention CRND. While Hyslop is certainly notable, WP:INHERITORG makes it clear that the Centre does not inherit notability solely because one person made some important discoveries while working there. Chess (talk) (please use&#32; on reply) 04:38, 7 December 2021 (UTC) Delete fails WP:BRANCH-- rsjaffe 🗩 🖉 05:05, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. Chess (talk) (please use&#32; on reply) 04:38, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
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Delete this clearly fails WP:BRANCH and other relevant notability guidelines. Since everything about it is extremely trivial and on other things. So from what I can tell there's no valid reason to keep it. I don't even think it would be worth a redirect since the article title is way to general to be a useful redirect term. --Adamant1 (talk) 21:45, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

Delete for lacking independent sources, evidence of notability, and evidence of the primary claim about research. Doczilla @SUPERHEROLOGIST 22:25, 14 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete. Nom invited me to this AFD because I had seconded their WP:PROD (which I had come across by pure accident; the article had appeared in a DABfixers's report). The sources in the article are WP:PRIMARY. The best a search turned up were a 2014 news item about a projected collaboration between the Centre and another institute and this listing-type overview. I found no independent in-depth source of the type required to support a claim to WP:N. Narky Blert (talk) 21:24, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
 * For reference, I was planning on inviting the PROD remover, but there was a "no talkback" template on their user talk and so I invited them on the talk page of the article itself. Chess (talk) (please use&#32; on reply) 23:22, 14 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep - this surely does good research into Alzheimer's disease, which would obviously be important. I am not opposed, however, to a merge with the University of Toronto. YTKJ (talk) 11:02, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Where are the sources required by WP:GNG? And, any merge ought to be to the parent department, University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine, not the university. Narky Blert (talk) 07:39, 11 December 2021 (UTC)
 * All right then, I shall suggest a merge with the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine, then. YTKJ (talk) 12:02, 14 December 2021 (UTC)


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