Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies


 * 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 delete. No comment on whether a redirect somewhere would be appropriate, except that it should at least be mentioned in the target. ~ Amory  (u • t • c) 00:45, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies

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Undergraduate department of a university. Whether sourced or not, university departments do not normally get their own page unless they are a major research facility. Without prejudice to redirecting to a parent article. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 03:15, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete. As much as I, as a gay Canadian who tries pretty hard to get LGBT Canadian topics into Wikipedia, would like to be able to salvage this, I simply can't. As written, it's depending entirely on primary sources (either its own self-published content or the university it's directly affiliated with), and shows no evidence of reliable source coverage in media independent of it — and I can't find any stronger coverage either. Even on a ProQuest search, all I can find is a handful of glancing namechecks of its existence in articles where academics affiliated with it give soundbite to the media about something other than the centre itself — but it has to be the subject of coverage, not just have its name dropped in coverage of other things, to get over WP:GNG, and the kind of coverage it takes I just ain't finding. Bearcat (talk) 03:54, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Ontario-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 03:54, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sexuality and gender-related deletion discussions. The Mighty Glen (talk) 05:52, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. The Mighty Glen (talk) 05:55, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Education-related deletion discussions. The Mighty Glen (talk) 05:55, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: Anybody else supporting a redirect, or do we do just delete? Closing as redirect would make sense only if the topic is at least mentioned in the target location.
 * Delete neither gay nor Canadian so I hope this !vote will not be taken as part of the straight British surge to take over wikipedia!!! But in all seriousness I agree with my furry friend and the sources just do not stand up to GNG requirements. Dom from Paris (talk) 16:21, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect to University of Toronto. I was almost a weak keep, but went with redirect based on gut instinct. Per User:Kudpung's comment above, I went to the University of Toronto article to see if a merge would make sense, and noticed that of the 18 different faculties listed there, 14 have their own articles, and even three autonomous schools have their own articles.  I'm not sure what makes a research facility "major", but the norm in this case seems to be to have an article, rather than not having one. I did an extensive Google search, and besides numerous school name mentions related to staff and alumni, I found some minor coverage of the school and its awards program including [], [], [], [], [], but it's not quite enough to get me to weak keep. The redirect will at least preserve the info should it be possible to expand down the road. TimTempleton (talk)  (cont)  20:59, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Sandstein   17:30, 16 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete Nothing here worth merging, clearly does not meet any of the applicable guidelines. Enigmamsg 19:57, 16 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete per nomination and per Bearcat's pointers, above. -The Gnome (talk) 10:19, 17 May 2018 (UTC)


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