Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Degree Programs at Bowling Green State University


 * 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 per WP:NOTDIRECTORY. The article does not provide encyclopedic content. Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 15:13, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

Degree Programs at Bowling Green State University

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Wikipedia is not a course catalog. ElKevbo (talk) 23:47, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep. In my opinion the article does not resemble a course catalog, but instead an article that highlights the many programs offered by the university. There are five other pages (1 2 3 4 5) that highlight courses and degrees offered which resembles that used by this article.  My goal for creating this article was to heighten the understanding of academics offered at the main campus of Bowling Green State University and because of this I think the article should be kept.  Rik (talk) 00:37, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions.   —TerriersFan (talk) 01:10, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep - much more than a course catalogue since it contains a great deal of prosed information. There are still unsourced parts but that needs to be fixed as an editorial matter as does some necessary cleaning up. TerriersFan (talk) 01:22, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. Wikipedia is not a directory, and this is not an appropriate topic for an encyclopedia. AndyJones (talk) 12:38, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ohio-related deletion discussions.   --  Fabrictramp  |  talk to me  13:40, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per rationale provided by AndyJones.--Daysleeper47 (talk) 13:46, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete: WP:NOTDIRECTORY is a policy statement, not an editorial style guideline. ~ Ningauble (talk) 15:25, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment: Pending the outcome of this discussion, the five others mentioned above may also need to be considered for deletion. ~ Ningauble (talk) 15:33, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Agreed. Those articles appear to be even "worse" than this one, IMHO.  --ElKevbo (talk) 15:40, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment - I actually wouldn't argue about the deletion of the other five which are simply directories. In view of the above comments, I have cleaned out the list of courses, which is the directory content. What we are left with is some encyclopaedic information worth keeping. TerriersFan (talk) 15:59, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
 * That's definitely an improvement but I still don't think the material warrants an encyclopedia article. If still reads much like a listing of dry facts that could easily be put into a series of tables (and thus would be very similar to what was just removed from the article).  I would be swayed if the article were changed from a dry description of the programs to describing interesting information about them such as histories, significant and interesting accomplishments, and similarly compelling materials.  Right now it's still academic directory/course catalog material, IMHO.  --ElKevbo (talk) 16:11, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete or merge to Bowling Green State University. If the others come to AfD I will !vote to likewise remove them. CRGreathouse (t | c) 20:04, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete - it's a laundry list of programs (a directory) and wikipedia isn't a directory -- Whpq (talk) 14:38, 7 September 2008 (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.