Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of colleges affiliated to Gauhati University


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The result was no consensus. postdlf (talk) 01:08, 2 October 2017 (UTC)

List of colleges affiliated to Gauhati University

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Not encyclopaedic Rathfelder (talk) 11:08, 17 September 2017 (UTC)
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 * Keep as this is an encyclopaedic list, similar to List of colleges affiliated with the University of Delhi. In India, major universities have constituent colleges which are affiliated to it. A list of such colleges is a valid information to include in an encyclopaedia. The Gauhati University is a major public university in Assam (Northeast India) and it has 326 colleges affiliated to it. So it makes sense to keep a list of these colleges.--DreamLinker (talk) 15:17, 17 September 2017 (UTC)
 * WP:NOTDIRECTORY Neither this, nor the one about the University of Delhi gives us any useful information.  If there is a significant relationship with the parent university the information should be in that article. Alternatively these colleges could all be put into a category.   That would be more helpful and easier to update.  Rathfelder (talk) 19:34, 17 September 2017 (UTC)
 * That doesn't apply in this case. There is a featured article Colleges of the University of Cambridge which is analogous to this. It is a list of colleges in Cambridge. It is true that they have added some more information and created a table. That can be done here as well. But is there a need to delete this article?--DreamLinker (talk) 03:46, 19 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete, per WP:NOTDIRECTORY and WP:LISTN. We simply do not need to know every single college (especially the hundreds that aren't notable) affiliated with the subject college. Ajf773 (talk) 07:19, 18 September 2017 (UTC)
 * It fulfils WP:LISTPURP particularly for navigation purposes. It can be improved and a table can be added with details such as founding date of the colleges. See Colleges of the University of Cambridge which is analogous to this.--DreamLinker (talk) 03:53, 19 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Not even close to that article and there is very little navigational content as well. Ajf773 (talk) 05:16, 19 September 2017 (UTC)
 * I think that it can be improved. Indeed the locations of the colleges can be mentioned. They can be grouped by the subjects taught. A table can be added with the foundation dates of the college. Do you think that this article cannot be improved at all?--DreamLinker (talk) 14:09, 19 September 2017 (UTC)
 * More independent sources, just one or two primary source isn't good enough. Ajf773 (talk) 22:04, 19 September 2017 (UTC)
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Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, — MRD 2014  Talk • Edits • Help! 02:36, 25 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete. Poorly referenced and of little notability. What does it mean 'affiliated'? We should delete all other articles in related categories (Category:Lists of colleges affiliated to universities in India). --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 09:03, 25 September 2017 (UTC)
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 * Keep: Universities in India are usually comprised of "affiliated" colleges which are comparable to constituent colleges, as DreamLinker mentioned. There is no reason to delete the page. However, it really needs more sources and prose. It would not be appropriate to list them on the university's main page so a sub-page is necessary. Also, since when is notability applied to universities, Piotrus? Malayy (talk) 11:25, 30 September 2017 (UTC)


 * As it stands this is a directory article, containing no useful information about these colleges. There is not even an explanation of what "affiliated to this university" means.  There is a perfectly good  Category:Colleges affiliated to Gauhati University. What does this list add to that? Rathfelder (talk) 14:14, 30 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Comment: On second thought, the scope is quite large for this article. That the and the lack of wiki pages for almost all of the affiliated colleges, it does appear more as a directory than a detailed informative list. Whereas the University of Dehli is organized more evenly into 77 colleges, the affiliation seems a bit weaker here. Not sure about the rules in that regard though. Just a thought. Malayy (talk) 00:06, 1 October 2017 (UTC)


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