Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Times of London/Best Universities

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was DELETE. Rickk's arguments are compelling. Golbez 06:27, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)

The Times of London/Best Universities
This article is not encyclopedic, and I don't see any chance of it becoming so. Ranking universities is not what the Times is chiefly known for -- and even if it were, the point of WP is not to copy the content of famous works.. This probably belongs on The Times website, but not in WP. Cleduc 17:13, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge into college and university rankings as ext link. We have a precedent in that article, in that even U.S. News and World Report, who makes the best-known US college rankings, doesn't have its own article for its rankings, just a couple of paragraphs in a more general article (either way, the entire list isn't just cut and pasted into a Wikipedia article).  Also worth noting (for future voters) is that it apparently is only a list of UK universities. --Idont Havaname 17:58, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, useful list. Kappa 20:40, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not a useful list, subpages are disparaged, and the list is the intellecutal property of the Times. RickK 23:07, Jun 12, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per Rick K. carmeld1 23:42, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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