Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Taubman Institute


 * 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   no consensus. Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:07, 25 December 2010 (UTC)

Taubman Institute

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This article doesn't seem to meet WP:ORG. The claims of notability seem to revolve around the implied notability of Dorothy Taubman; but notability is not inherited. (Despite the fact that Dorothy Taubman doesn't have her own article, and this article doesn't verify her proposed notability). The non-first-party sources provided seem to assert the notability of Dorothy Taubman, and not her institute. The majority of these sources are from a single source which gave Dorothy Taubman sporadic coverage back in 1994. Once of these sources includes the comment: "I thought the Taubman Institute was some cult, like a hippie club or something." — Fly by Night  ( talk )  13:01, 5 December 2010 (UTC)  Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:00, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


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 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Wizardman  Operation Big Bear 19:16, 18 December 2010 (UTC)
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 * I find ample evidence that Dorothy Taubman is notable (more than 100 GNews hits, and at least a few interesting discussions found at GBooks as well) but my sense is that the Institute is mostly notable because of her and doesn't really need its own page. It appears that an attempted article about her was deleted as a copyvio of her biography at the Institute's website.  In my opinion, the most productive remedy would be to move and rename this article to Dorothy Taubman (so as to save the work of identifying the references already presented) and rewrite it (using independent sources like the cited LA Times articles and others) to focus on the individual, with appropriate incidental mention of the Institute.  --Arxiloxos (talk) 21:03, 18 December 2010 (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.