Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cultural institution


 * 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 keep. The delete side noted WP:NOTEVERYTHING & WP:DICDEF. While policy does state some articles are encyclopedic glossaries on the jargon of an industry or field; such articles must be informative, not guiding in nature, and consensus is that this article meets or at least has the potential to meet that standard.

Because of that, its notability, and it's broad, easily-expandable nature, the consensus is the article should be kept. (non-admin closure) –– FormalDude  talk  22:58, 22 September 2021 (UTC)

Cultural institution

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This three-sentence article is nothing but a WP:DICDEF;; and I don't see how it could reasonably be grown to anything else. TJRC (talk) 18:48, 15 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions. – Lord Bolingbroke (talk) 21:44, 15 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. – Lord Bolingbroke (talk) 22:05, 15 September 2021 (UTC)


 * Keep. Although this article is a stub, I would consider it a broad-concept article rather than a WP:DICDEF. Broad-concept articles are challenging to write by nature, and may often be short, but they are still useful as a jumping-off point for readers. The Promise of Cultural Institutions may be a good resource for expanding the article. – Lord Bolingbroke (talk) 22:05, 15 September 2021 (UTC)


 * In some ways I am slightly persuaded by your reference to broad-concept article. However the closest example article I can see is Educational institution which is basically a DICDEF with an unsourced list at the bottom. I fear this is part of the Ajective+Noun problem. You could just as easily make articles on Culinary institution, Arts institution, Musical institution, Theatrical institution etc etc Vladimir.copic (talk) 02:08, 17 September 2021 (UTC)


 * Keep This is nothing like a dictionary definition; it's a stub. WP:DICDEF explains the difference so please read it.  As for expansion; that would be easy as there are numerous books about the various kinds of cultural instition.  See WP:BEFORE. Andrew🐉(talk) 22:59, 15 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:DICDEF and WP:NOTEVERYTHING. The alternative of cultural organisation given on the page is also just too enormous a category to possibly be workable which could range from a local Morris Dancing Society to The Guggenheim. At best I can just see this article morphing into a list as is typical of these kind of articles. Open to WP:HEY on this one as there is some notability here just think it is very hard to tease out. Vladimir.copic (talk) 07:33, 16 September 2021 (UTC)
 * So what's the problem here – that the article is too big or that it's too small? You can't have it both ways. Andrew🐉(talk) 08:42, 16 September 2021 (UTC)
 * I'll assume good faith in your question but I never made comment on the size of the article. Vladimir.copic (talk) 02:01, 17 September 2021 (UTC)


 * Keep and add examples of notable cultural institutions. Minkai (talk to me) 15:16, 17 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep per Lord Bolingbroke.4meter4 (talk) 19:54, 22 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep, clearly notable broad concept.Jackattack1597 (talk) 21:53, 22 September 2021 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.