Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Osler Library Archival Collection


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The result was redirect to Osler Library of the History of Medicine. Liz Read! Talk! 02:28, 29 September 2022 (UTC)

Osler Library Archival Collection

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Article about an archival collection, not properly referenced as the subject of any coverage or analysis to establish its significance. In its current form, it's referenced exclusively to the host university's own self-published content about its own archival collections, rather than any outside coverage or analysis about the collection -- and prior to my having to undertake a significant cleanup job on it just now, there were also numerous footnotes to Wikidata queries, which is a circular violation as we cannot reference our own content to ourselves. And, furthermore, this would appear to have been created solely as a "finding aid" to help drive traffic to the archive's own website, because my cleanup job also included having to strip a couple of hundred (aaaarrrrggghhhh) embedded offsite links to the individual webpage of each individual fonds in the "contents of the collection" table. There simply isn't any real claim being made or sourced here that this would have any standalone notability as a separate topic from Osler Library of the History of Medicine itself (which also needs sourcing improvement, but isn't nearly as problematic in tone or format.) Bearcat (talk) 22:33, 15 September 2022 (UTC) Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz Read! Talk! 23:22, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Medicine and Canada. Bearcat (talk) 22:33, 15 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Redirect to the library. This "article" is a few sentences and the classification system. We don't need what's basically the content of the card catalogue to be reproduced here. Oaktree b (talk) 11:54, 16 September 2022 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.


 * Delete Worth perhaps a mention in the article for the library (which is itself poorly sourced, unfortunately). But this is not encyclopedic. Lamona (talk) 03:12, 23 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Osler Library of the History of Medicine per Oaktree. A. Randomdude0000 (talk) 18:16, 28 September 2022 (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.