Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lesley College of Liberal Arts and Sciences


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The result was   redirect to Lesley University. When four admins unanimously suggest redirection, I feel confident that redirection is the correct action here. (non-admin closure) &#124;  Uncle Milty  &#124;  talk  &#124;  12:47, 17 September 2013 (UTC)

Lesley College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

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Individual colleges are rarely notable, and there is no reason to believe this is an example of one that warrants an article. My redirect to the main article was reverted by an WP:SPA, and needs to be restored one way or another. Their argument, "It is a specific college of the university", is not a valid reason for having an independent article: existence does not equal notability. Drmies (talk) 18:18, 10 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Massachusetts-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000(talk) 23:38, 10 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000(talk) 23:38, 10 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Redirect to Lesley University. -- Necrothesp (talk) 16:01, 12 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Redirect ; we do include colleges when they are the first-order subdivisions of the very largest, most important, and famous universities. Leslie is not in that category. &#39;DGG (at NYPL) (talk) 18:47, 16 September 2013 (UTC)
 * If you are going to comment on particular institution (DGG), it would be professional if you could spell the name correctly.
 * The reason Lesley University's principal undergraduate units have their own articles is due to their historical nature. The University stems from two separate institutions: Lesley College and The Art Institute of Boston; important institutions in their own right. The founders of each institution, Edith Lesley and Roy Davidson  were educational visionaries in their fields, professional visual art instruction in the case of Davidson, and the radical idea of Kindergarten education and the professional education of women in the U.S. in the case Lesley. These were historical players in Massachusetts and Boston-Cambridge.

Lesley University has a complex and at times mysterious history and these two foundational units are important in telling the whole history. Yes, these pages do need serious work, I hope the pages are improved and not deleted. Sdbr14 (talk) 02:18, 17 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Redirect as above. The separate history of Lesley College pre-merger can be treated in Lesley University. Neutralitytalk 04:37, 17 September 2013 (UTC)
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