Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Eastern Michigan University Student Center


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The result was   keep. The Bushranger One ping only 04:58, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

Eastern Michigan University Student Center

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Fails WP:GNG. Every single reference is directly from EMU's own website, EMU's own school newspaper, or a blog (which itself fails WP:RS). Non-notable "campus hub" at a school. Jrcla2 (talk) 19:41, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep I agree that the article lacks secondary sources and I will begin to add more. I do want to point out College and university article guidelines, universities are notable and that student unions at those universities are huge part of the university and surrounding community. Under "Campus" it talks about "Facilities or Buildings" being talked about having "historic or cultural importance beyond the university itself". While the guidelines doesn't address specific sub articles relating to buildings.
 * The building heavily relates to a building on an NRHP. The information on the building on the Eastern Michigan University page grew to the point that I thought warranted a Splitting.
 * The building is heavily used by the city of ypsilanti and the community in the region for conferences I can start adding citations for those.
 * Beyond this it had the first Campus Gaming Centers in the country and if not one of the only with a kiva.
 * I'm not trying to pull WP:OTHERSTUFF but there are 41 articles on WP on College Unions and I feel like there is a general notability issue of college unions/university buildings overall.
 * As well, two of the current citations on the page come from the school's library archives and the other comes from the city of ypsilanti newspaper. -Pwojdacz (talk) 21:07, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of university-related deletion discussions. Pwojdacz (talk) 19:00, 23 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete Insufficient third party sources to establish notability, per WP:GNG.-GrapedApe (talk) 23:32, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep per Pwojdacz. There is way too much sourced content which as a whole do demonstrate passing WP:GNG.  It was correct to split from the Eastern Michigan University article. --Oakshade (talk) 00:56, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep. There is plenty more that can be added to this; in less than an hour I've added 6 additional secondary sources, including articles from the Ann Arbor News (the area's now-defunct daily newspaper) and The Ypsilanti Courier (the weekly newspaper). Also, the Eastern Echo is an independent newspaper. cmadler (talk) 01:34, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Being an "independent" student newspaper still equals being a student newspaper of the school. It is not a third party source, period. Anyone reading this AfD can go right to its Wikipedia article and see a conflict of interest in using it as a source. Jrcla2 (talk) 02:36, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:36, 23 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Keep This is not a notability issue, it's an organizational issue, and splitting this content from the main Eastern Michigan University article is a reasonable editorial decision. TJRC (talk) 20:00, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
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