Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Hofstra University faculty


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The result was keep. Consensus is for article retention. North America1000 00:27, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

List of Hofstra University faculty

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Almost all of the names listed here don't have Wikipedia articles. List of Hofstra University alumni is not very large, and unlike all other colleges, Hofstra has List of Hofstra University honorary degree recipients article. Totally overcoverage. Notable Sweety (talk) 05:48, 25 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete/merge All of the entries are unsourced and contains puffery such as Dr. Ruth Prigozy, eminent Fitzgerald scholar and founder of the Fitzgerald Society. This list can easily be merged to either the main article or the "list of alumni article". Similar universities such as Category:Syracuse University faculty have 159 articles, Category:Fordham University faculty has 105 articles etc yet those universities have only one article "list of people" where they list all alumni, faculty and honorary degree recipients. Notable Sweety (talk) 05:50, 26 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. North America1000 22:34, 25 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions. North America1000 22:34, 25 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of New York-related deletion discussions. North America1000 22:34, 25 June 2015 (UTC)


 * Keep, "almost all" ≠ "all", and there are obviously enough notable entries to justify a list as Category:Hofstra University faculty has 38 articles apart from this list. postdlf (talk) 00:03, 26 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Note nominator (who has 33 edits as of this post) has also started Articles for deletion/List of Hofstra University honorary degree recipients, with a nomination copied and pasted from this one. postdlf (talk) 00:11, 26 June 2015 (UTC)
 * There's only six faculty listed here that have Wikipedia articles, and 32 more in the Category:Hofstra University faculty. This list can easily be merged to either the main article or the "list of alumni article". Category:Syracuse University faculty have 159 articles, Category:Fordham University faculty has 105 articles etc yet those universities have only one article "list of people" where they list all alumni, faculty and honorary degree recipients. And no, the nomination is not copied and pasted, but the rationale for deletion/merged is the same.--Notable Sweety (talk) 05:37, 26 June 2015 (UTC)
 * You posted identical rationales and only expanded them later (and expanded them with largely the same content). Whether you copied and pasted or manually retyped the same words is uninteresting. At any rate, merging ≠ deletion, and it's up to editor discretion as to whether it makes more sense to keep one master list of all notable people associated with this university or separate lists for faculty and alumni. "Puffery" and present unsourcing are completely irrelevant to either the question of deletion or merger, because AFD is WP:NOTCLEANUP. postdlf (talk) 14:12, 26 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep Agree with postdlf. Seems valuable. There's a lot of entries and just because it's not notable to you doesn't mean it's not actually notable.AlaskanNativeRU (talk) 01:34, 26 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Speedy keep. The nominator fails to put forth a rationale for deletion that is based on established policies or guidelines. -- Kinu  t/c 05:35, 26 June 2015 (UTC)


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