Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of colleges and universities starting with A


 * 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 of the debate was Delete Thryduulf 00:55, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

List of colleges and universities starting with A
Out of date, unencyclopedic, and pointless list. It puts all schools good or diploma mill, community college, university or PO Box, from the US to UK to China in a infinite list. Manually logged and therefore out of date and based on user's desires to list and label/name schools. The whole list if up for AfD: A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- Arbusto 22:03, 27 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom. Arbusto 22:07, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete the lot per nom. Indiscriminate list mania.  Slowmover 22:17, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete with extreme prejudice. Listcruft by Alpha, unmaintainable by design, and utterly senseless by nature. KillerChihuahua?!? 22:33, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete redundant per category and adds nothing other than maintenance overhead. Just zis Guy you know? 22:42, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete the lot   Dl yo ns 493   Ta lk  23:06, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete all - this list does nothing that categories don't provide better, no criteria for inclusion are given, and it's not even well maintained (bizarrely and inexplicably sudivided too: Aa-Ai in one section, but Al gets three subsections?) Aquilina 23:24, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete all ... except for 'S', which should be kept because my alma mater is listed there. ...   Come to think of it, you can delete 'S', too.   Bucketsofg 00:25, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep. We don't have any other alphabetical listing of universities. This also shows what Universities we need pages for. Hence, I can't see how it is redundant with anything. -- JJay 00:26, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment: There are numerous lists of different criteria that more accurately define higher education. Example: Arbusto 00:55, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, those are all great lists. The problem is that they are mostly organized by US State. That is not too helpful if you don't know which State to check. That is why I see this list as useful and complementary. Not that it will have any impact with those so quick to call it redundant. I ask: redundant with what? We have no corresponding category. -- JJay 01:28, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
 * You expressed your opinion on an 13,000 school list pertaining to one accreditation group at Articles for deletion/List of TRACS members. I disagree that we need a list in place for every differing criteria. Categories are suitable for groups. Arbusto 02:08, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Then create a category to replace this list. -- JJay 13:41, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Category:Universities and colleges by country is both adequate and well organised, with subcategories for each country (and the university and colleges countries often subsequently categorised further).   Proto    ||    type    15:40, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
 * No, sorry, totally inadequate per my remarks above. There is no alphabetized category for universities. Removing this list is a serious blow to the organization of the site.-- JJay 15:51, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Categories by definition alpha order lists. Arbusto 21:16, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for stating the obvious. When you have set up a master university category by letter get back to me. Until then, we have no categories comparable to this list. -- JJay 21:26, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
 * WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Colleges and Universities (mentioned by Reflex below). Arbusto 22:08, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I'd repeat my comments above but what's the point? Do you do this for fun or what? Point me to an alphabetized master category for universities, not organized by state or country. Point me to a list that includes all the universities on this list. Until then we have nothing comparable to this list and by deleting we do nothing to improve the organization of this site. -- JJay 22:26, 28 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Delete. Utterly redundant with the category system, adds nothing to it. --Calton | Talk 01:35, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Dismas|(talk) 02:15, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. --Khoikhoi 05:39, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep more encyclopedic than most other lists, it cannot be an infinite list, since there isn't an infinite lists of universities. --Vizcarra 06:22, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Eusebeus 07:06, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete all, far better managed by categories. Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate splurge of information, nor is it a directory.    Proto    ||    type    08:50, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
 * And comment - Category:Lists of universities and colleges by alphabetical order will subsequently need to go through WP:CFD if these directories are deleted.   Proto    ||    type    15:38, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete from article space, but the remaining redlinks may be useful in some list in the Wikipedia name space. u p p l a n d 15:41, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete all, the categories are more than sufficient. RasputinAXP   c  [[Image:Gadsden_flag.svg|25px]] 17:31, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete For those of you concerned about "losing redlinks" there is a list of colleges and universities that need articles created about them at WP:MEA. This subproject was also designed to identify colleges that lack infoboxes or are not using the new standard infobox Infobox University.  It was based entirely on this list that is about to be deleted, but I still think this list should be deleted.  There are other more appropriate sites that have this type of information.  --Reflex Reaction (talk)&bull; 21:51, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. This is even worse than most "list of" articles.  Friday (talk) 15:42, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
 * The existance of this list seems an argument against the practice of not allowing things to be in subcategories and supercategories at the same time. If there were a category that included all colleges this list would be completely unnecessary. As it is, it is of very marginal utility but impossible to maintain. Delete and argue for categories that include EVERYTHING of a certain type. + +Lar: t/c 18:03, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
 * delete M o e   ε  02:47, 1 April 2006 (UTC)


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