Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Faculty of Humanities


 * 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 no consensus. While it's pretty clear that this article should probably be kept in one form or another, there is no clear consensus in what form this article should continue to exist, be it as a redirect (with or without merge) or as a list or DAB page. Since no more discussion happened despite a relist, this should be handled at the talk page now though, not at AFD.  So Why  06:51, 20 June 2017 (UTC)

Faculty of Humanities

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This disambiguation page actively impedes navigation. WP has dozens (possibly hundreds) of articles about universities with a Faculty of Humanities (or words to that effect) and this dab page could only be an incomplete list. Better to delete it and let Search do its job? (For example, there is no article for Faculty of Engineering or Faculty of Modern Languages, and Faculty of Arts is about the general topic). Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 07:08, 25 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 07:17, 25 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Disambiguations-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 07:17, 25 May 2017 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Comment. There is a related RfD at Redirects for discussion/Log/2017 May 25. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 07:32, 25 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete. As per nom, this is a case where search is better suited to the task than a dab page. James (talk/contribs) 10:32, 25 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect to Faculty (division). That page appropriately covers the topic at hand and meets notability standards. James (talk/contribs) 16:16, 3 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom, and wonder whether we could have general guidance for this sort of case. — swpb T 12:37, 25 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep. No valid reason for deletion has been offered (WP:OTHERSTUFFDOESNTEXIST doesn't count, and I don't see how this "impedes navigation"). I see about a dozen nine with this specific title, so length isn't an issue. A minor quibble is whether it should be considered a dab page or a list. Clarityfiend (talk) 12:59, 25 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Impeding navigation is absolutely a valid reason, even if you don't agree with it. Wikipedia has a search function, and many of us have found that it gets you to the page you want more efficiently than some dab pages do. Since that's the entire purpose of dab pages, a dab page that doesn't do that job well shouldn't exist. You can disagree about the relative effectiveness of different modes of navigation. But to say that Shhhnotsoloud hasn't given a "valid reason" is false and beneath the standard of reasoned discussion. — swpb T 13:08, 25 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect to Faculty (division). Redirect the red links there also. There is no reason that such an article can't house some exemplary lists of faculties of certain types. bd2412  T 17:09, 25 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete as per nom. There's no way that there can ever be a useful page under this name; it's a vague and generic term. The arbitrary list of departments is worse than useless, and there's no plausible redirect candidate. Power~enwiki (talk) 19:14, 25 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Listify. If there are possibly a hundred notable Faculties of Humanities, that would be a great candidate for a list. A curated list of all notable faculties would be a lot more useful for our readers than a potluck of search results, especially if it's sortable by country, university, etc. This disambiguation is a good start. -- Tavix ( talk ) 02:00, 27 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Merge to Faculty (division), leaving a redirect behind. Exemplo347 (talk) 20:06, 2 June 2017 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  So Why  19:50, 3 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep but add links to relevant other articles, lists, categories. As far as I can see this specifically lists faculties which are called "Faculty of Humanities" as opposed to other similar faculties with different names (e.g. "Faculty of the Humanities", "Faculty of Arts and Humanities", etc.), and is a perfectly valid DAB. Patar knight - chat/contributions 02:16, 8 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Listify per Tavix. SpinningSpark 12:15, 11 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete. The arguments that this will hinder rather than aid navigation makes sense to me.  A list like this will always be incomplete, and the search function does a better job.  -- RoySmith (talk) 00:06, 12 June 2017 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, – XboxGamer 22408 talk 01:55, 12 June 2017 (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.