Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tie Guard


 * 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 merge into University of Waterloo. Ifnord 15:03, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Tie Guard
This article refers to an annual tradition during orientation week ("frosh week") for first-year students entering the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Waterloo. The Tie Guard is a prominent position within Math Frosh Week, but it doesn't deserve an entire article to itself. I say this as a Waterloo Math alumnus who was involved in frosh week for four distinct years.

This institution certainly deserves a mention somewhere, and I suggest merging a subset of the content into University of Waterloo Faculty of Mathematics. —Saforrest 20:59, 5 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Merge per nomination. Powers 21:39, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Merge as suggested by Saforrest. -   JamieJones  talk 01:52, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Merge per nomination. I was a member of Tie Guard in 2004, and agree with Saforrest on its relevance in wikipedia.  Krease 20:12, 7 August 2006 (PST)
 * Keep. I was a member of Tie Guard for several years, and disagree with Saforrest on its relevance in wikipedia.  As the author of the article, no doubt these comments will largely be ignored.  However, other school organizations, frosh information, legends etc of a similar nature are included in wikipedia such as IHTFP at MIT.  The Queen's_Faculty_of_Applied_Science contains primarily information about their forsh week activites (in spite of the main Queen's_University page listing many of the same).  The St._Francis_Xavier_University_Students'_Union lists the names of its executives on the site.  The article Greasepole about Queen's University's Engineering mascot has an article.  As a tradition that has existed for more than a decade at the University, and is promoted and supported by the faculty itself, not just the student body, it seems justly deserving of an article - Razynder 19:45, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep. I was a member of Tie Guard in 2004 as well. I don't really understand the reason to merge, beyond an arbitrary metric of importance.  It is observable in the policies of wikipedia, that though combining information when it makes sense is encourage, a drive to reduce the number of topics isn't.  The entry answer a question someone might have: what *is* tie guard anyway?  It may make sense to reference and partially include the entry in other entries like the math faculty page, but I do not see reason to merge the article in fully.  That being said, I don't yet fully understand how relationship between articles work in Wikipedia.  Albert O'Connor --209.183.151.182 20:13, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep. I was a member of Tie Guard in 1999 and 2000.  One thing we have to realize that although Tie Guard was supported by the Math Faculty it was a University wide service.  Many other faculties on Campus informed their frosh that if they've ever got any concerns or are lost to go to Tie Guard.  It was a 24 hour service for all on campus.  Not just Mathematics.--Ryan.jenkins 12:12, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Note: user's first edit. Powers 13:55, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Ah, then I would also support a merge to University of Waterloo. Powers 13:55, 9 August 2006 (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.