Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Libraries and the Deaf community


 * 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 soft delete. WP:REFUND applies. – filelakeshoe (t / c) 🐱 08:48, 25 July 2019 (UTC)

Libraries and the Deaf community

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This article duplicates content at Deaf culture and should be deleted. The duplicate content was previously noted here. In addition, I believe the content was copied from an internal university wiki with unknown copyright status.

The article was created May 17, 2014 by whose Wikipedia career lasted 25 minutes, during which time she created four articles (including this one, at 8kb) and added content to three others (12kb). Three other articles created by this user during their brief career (discussed here, here, and here) were later deleted.

It is relevant to this Afd that a day earlier, on May 16, 2014, edited Deaf culture adding 6.5kb in two edits during a Wikipedia career lasting 25 minutes. The edit summary for this edit (their first ever) reads: →‎Characteristics of deaf culture -- added information from SJSU SLIS Wiki. In researching this, I found this SJSU blog and this SJSU wiki, which is a Wiki about library information science publications for students at San Jose State University. I believe that Librarystudent1983 copied material out of the Wiki into Deaf culture in their two edits. Although I can't prove this, the edit summary implies it, as does the large amount of content added in so short a time. (Subsequent edits added content which was the subject of two copyvio removals; the article is now smaller than when it was created. The content in the original version has not been challenged, to my knowledge.)

The subject article of this Afd, Libraries and the Deaf community, previously underwent a speedy deletion nomination and was kept. The problems noted by the reviewing admin (DGG), along with the comments about the three deleted articles as well as the very similar pattern of editing at Deaf culture by Librarystudent1983 whose career was equally brief, leads me to believe that  is or was another SJSU Library Information Science student, who was also copying information from the SLIS Wiki into Wikipedia. Mathglot (talk) 02:14, 18 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Notified: Catladyface. Couldn't find a likely WPROJ at Deletion sorting. Mathglot (talk) 03:32, 18 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Disability-related deletion discussions. MrClog (talk) 12:05, 18 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions. MrClog (talk) 12:05, 18 July 2019 (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.