Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dept of Plant Sciences, University of Manchester


 * 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 on a Votes for Undeletion nomination).  No further edits should be made to this page.  

The result of the debate was speedy deleted (see below). -R. fiend 18:21, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

Dept of Plant Sciences, University of Manchester
Universities are inherently notable, departments and institutes only when they have a particularly illustrious history or an outstanding reputation. The Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Manchester isn't particularly great. Pilatus 00:10, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
 * How do we know that for a fact? Keep and expand. - Sensor 00:13, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Please! This isn't even a department but a degree programme! Pilatus 01:05, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and Expand Reyk 00:15, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete unless some verifiable claim of notability (famous alumni / professors / discoveries) is made. Z iggurat  01:24, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge. I'd say there's room for this in University of Manchester -Haon 01:35, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete The only confusion here is under what category is it not notable. If it a nn degree? Is it a nn faculty? Is it a nn janitorial staff? Who cares? Ifnord 02:14, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep or merge, verifiable. JYolkowski // talk 02:25, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge with University of Manchester as suggested by Haon FRS 03:17, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge or Delete depending on the amount of actual content. I don't think this dept deserves a page of its own, however it may be a notable section for the university.  -- Malo 04:55, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. I guess it's not a school in the sense we usually argue about, but it still falls under the rubric that all schools are notable.--Nicodemus75 05:38, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
 * As university departments are worthy of being mentioned somewhere, it should be merged in some form, but it would only be clutter at the University of Manchester article. Therefore, keep, and merge later if the structure of the UoM article is changed or we get an article on the faculty. Sjakkalle (Check!)  08:36, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge with University of Manchester --MacRusgail 09:54, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge with "University of Manchester". *drew 11:45, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge to U of M and add a section there listing its departments. Marskell 16:58, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete in accordance with CSD # A.3: "Any article whose contents consist only of an external link, 'See also' section, book reference, category tag, template tag, interwiki link, or rephrasing of the title." I am marking the article as such.  The Literate Engineer 17:54, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm going to speedy this because 1) Literate is right, this is textbook A3 (I'm assuming the keep voters didn't even read the article; I'm starting to see that more) and 2) it doesn't exist. As Pilatus pointed out, there is no such department (check their website if you don;t velieve me) so the speedy redirect I was going to do would be erroneous. -R. fiend 18:21, 21 October 2005 (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 an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.