Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/NYU residence halls

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The result of the debate was NO CONSENSUS, which defaults to KEEP Paul August &#9742; 03:28, September 6, 2005 (UTC)

NYU residence halls
Exhaustively trifling, non-notable. Merge to NYU article. Paul Klenk 06:57, 28 August 2005 (UTC)


 * Merge per nom --Mysidia (talk) 07:02, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment NYU article is already 44k, would this make a merge problematic?Alf 11:13, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment Article is named improperly. Should be New York University residence halls.  --Ichabod 11:44, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge/redirect to New York University - the size of the target article shouldn't be a problem, because really only the first paragraph of this is encyclopedic. The exhaustive list of the halls themself is simply not  needed, and is probably just copied from an NYU site somewhere.  CDC   (talk)  17:49, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Numerous universities have separate articles about their residential housing, and I'm sure there is encyclopedic information to be found for many of the listed halls. Sdedeo 19:25, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep separate, minority interest. Kappa 20:33, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge While it's true many universities have residence hall pages, the NYU dorms are not "colleges" in the sense of Yale and therefore don't have detailed histories and statistics. They were a better fit on the main page.  By the by, I wrote the sections initially, and most of it is pulled from what I remember of being a student at NYU. TommyP 01:19, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep

- Argument on size: The article is indeed already too long, alumni and presidents have already been outsourced. Many large sites at wikipedia have separate articles on subcategorical content in order to maintain a sizeable format. At Wikipedia, most university-related articles have the following on their main page: information on schools, rankings, size, general campus information, specialities, faculty, history, athletics and sometimes alumni and trivia/lore/traditions. Other, especially campus-related information is mainainted in separate articles, cf.: Harvard Yard, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Watterson Towers, Davenport College

- Argument on content: the article is in my view still encyclopedic, although every university article on this page contains more information than a traditional encyclopedia article. If that was a criterion, we`d have to delete 90 % of all university-related articles. I haven`t found any specific and detailed information on residence halls elsewhere and I believe it should not be included on the main page. However, I believe that this article contains valid information on NYU and should therefore not be deleted. If this article is deleted, may other articles will have to be deleted as well (see above). There are separate lists of university presidents, university museums and what not. So why delete this article ? One could argue that not all information contained therein is encyclopedic style and that for example it is not really important whether an NYU dorm offers washing machines or not - but then change the article, don`t delete it.
 * Keep but rename per Ichcabod. Cmadler 14:12, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and rename, redirect this to there. Alf 14:44, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and rename. Alf 21:14, 2 September 2005 (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 an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.