Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mills College Honorary Degree Recipients


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The result was no consensus. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 21:03, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

Mills College Honorary Degree Recipients

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Like this nomination and this other one I just nominated here, I don't think this list is encyclopedic. It's just a list of names with no context or explanation. Anything important about this school's honorary degrees can be covered in its main page. FrozenPurpleCube 04:53, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. Honorary degrees are empirically not granted as measures of achievement but are generally given out to recognize donors, attract commencement speakers, and a host of other in-between reasons. In a few cases individual honorary degrees may be notable -- "80 year old high school dropout given honorary doctorate" -- but a list is really indiscriminate. We have no idea what criteria the school has used, and in most cases they are not even notable in the subject's CV (unless it's the only degree they have). --Dhartung | Talk 05:01, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep. Receiving an honorary doctorate doesn't make you notable, but it is a recognition of notability, assuming that the institution awarding it isn't a joke. In this case, Mills College is not a joke. The names that aren't blue links serve as a reminder of articles that ought to be written. Even if someone is being recognized as a major donor, the donor may well be notable by virtue of how he or she accumulated a lot of money, and by virtue of the donation itself. --Eastmain 07:56, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm afraid that not everything Mills College does merits an article. Certainly I don't see why this particular action does.  Can you offer an explanation specifically why this college should have one?  Besides, in this case, most of the names aren't links at all.  The only red link is Leonora Wood Armsby who seems to have been a musician, author and poet in the Bay Area.  I'm not sure she'd merit an article, but if so, it'd be barely. FrozenPurpleCube 14:30, 4 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete. Notable recipients can be named in Mills College, but this separate list doesn't serve an encyclopedic purpose. --Akhilleus (talk) 16:27, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep though not quite as obvious as for a major university. Of those receiving the degree in the last 20 years, most of them are notable enough to have a WP article: going a 5 yr intervals: Ronald Dellums, Isabel Allende, Alice Waters, Rosalyn Yarrow, Ansel Adams, etc. The lack of ones for the earlier years is probably a relection ofWP recentism. DGG 03:49, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletions.   -- John Vandenberg 21:15, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep, as Eastmain says above, the entries on this list of people have a high probability of being individually notable, making this useful for WP development and curious readers. John Vandenberg 21:17, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.