Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/G5 (British universities)


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The result was   delete. JForget 22:09, 17 October 2009 (UTC)

G5 (British universities)

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notability - no sources provided. Never heard the term (and would have expected to if it was in use); no sources, and can't find any (it's hard to search for). Rd232 talk 12:38, 10 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete I don't know why they would even try reference it by using Wikipedia. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 14:59, 10 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete: Background: this seems to have been started by a complaint in the help desk (Help desk (Oct 10)). In response I added some cleanup tags but before I was done Rd232 put in the AfD. Rd232 also removed a bunch of CFORK material on the the 5 universities involved and I removed a links to the page that were unreferenced. It appears that the G5 is supposed to be analogous to the Ivy League in the US, the G13 in Canada and the G8 in Australia. Britain also has the Russell Group and some unofficial terms such as Oxbridge and the Golden Triangle which is composed of the same universities that are in the "G5". (This is what my research turned up at least--I'm not a Brit so I can't claim to be an expert.) Reasons for Delete: It seems clear that "G5" is also an unofficial term but I haven't seen any outside evidence that it's in actual use. If it is an actual nickname for these universities then it's hard for me to understand why it's not a synonym for the Golden Triangle. A synonym should just be added as an aka and not have its own article.--RDBury (talk) 00:14, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete - non-notable term with no evidence of actual use; the only "reference" in this article is a link to another Wikipedia article! -- Orange Mike  &#x007C;   Talk  23:12, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Eak Keep Never having heard of it is one of the classic non-reasons. But it would help to have the specific reference to TES, and whatever else there might be.
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