Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of educational institutions in Salem, India


 * 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   keep. (non-admin closure) Alpha_Quadrant   (talk)  01:09, 15 March 2012 (UTC)

List of educational institutions in Salem, India

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Fails WP:NOTDIRECTORY. The page is an external links collector and has no encyclopedic value. Tb hotch .™ Grammatically incorrect? Correct it! See terms and conditions.  05:48, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions.  —Tom Morris (talk) 11:58, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Education-related deletion discussions.  —Tom Morris (talk) 11:58, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 12:47, 7 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Keep : The article needs clean up, but that is no reason for deletion. For your information, there are 8 featured lists in Wikipedia which are of the type 'List of schools/colleges in xyz place' -- Anbu121  ( talk me ) 12:22, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes, and the main difference between this and featured lists is that they are featured works. Do you think that Wikipedia is an external links farm? Because that's what you did say in your keep "vote". Tb hotch .™ Grammatically incorrect? Correct it!  See terms and conditions.  04:17, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
 * And please don't try to compare this with this. Tb hotch .™ Grammatically incorrect? Correct it!  See terms and conditions.  04:18, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
 * If you think that the page has inappropriate external links, you could have removed them yourself or you could have put a tag on the top of the article saying 'Needs clean up' or 'contains external link'. AfD is definitely not the place to report an article that has inappropriate external links. -- Anbu121 ( talk me ) 08:03, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
 * As I said in my delete rationale, Wikipedia is not a directory, being specific: "Contact information such as phone numbers, fax numbers and email addresses"; as well as it fails WP:LISTCOMPANY. There's no reason to keep such unencyclopedic page. Tb hotch .™ Grammatically incorrect? Correct it!  See terms and conditions.  08:11, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Vermont is a region in US and Salem is a region in India. If 'List of colleges/universities in Vermont' can be a encyclopedic article, 'List of educational institutions in Salem' can also very well be an encyclopedic article. I repeat, AfD is not the place for cleaning up and removing links from an article. -- Anbu121 ( talk me ) 10:36, 11 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Keep As noted by Anbu121, clean it; dont delete. Arent all educational institutes notable by default? -Animeshkulkarni (talk) 10:00, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep As of now, it is quite different from when it was nominated. It no longer seems a linkfarm and doesn't seem to be covered in WP:NOTDIRECTORY anymore. Per WP:LISTCOMPANY, A company or organization may be included in a list of companies or organizations whether or not it meets the Wikipedia notability requirement, unless a given list specifically requires this. I do not think a list of this form requires fulfilling notability. (In case others do, I'd like to point out that WP:UNIGUIDE reads In general, all colleges and universities are notable and should be included on Wikipedia.) I do note that per WP:LISTCOMPANY,  If the company or organization does not have an existing article in Wikipedia, a citation to an independent, reliable source should be provided to establish its membership in the list's group. and per WP:V Any material that requires a citation but does not have one may be removed., however the list now contains some references and hence the entire article cannot be covered by this. Hence the grounds on which the article was nominated do not seem to stand true anymore. The article may be shortened considerably for lack of sources, in the extreme case it may be merged with Salem, Tamil Nadu; however the entire article cannot be considered as deletable.--Siddhartha Ghai (talk) 01:38, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
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