Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/University of Maryland Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science


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The result was merge to University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences.  Sandstein  11:29, 30 November 2019 (UTC)

University of Maryland Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science

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University departments do not qualify for stand-alone pages. Delete, without prejudice to blanking, merging the content to University of Maryland, College Park and leaving a redirect. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 09:53, 23 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Education-related deletion discussions.  CASSIOPEIA(talk) 10:23, 23 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Maryland-related deletion discussions.  CASSIOPEIA(talk) 10:23, 23 November 2019 (UTC)


 * Merge. Merge to University of Maryland, College Park. A department of a university is not notable enough to merit a stand alone page. CASSIOPEIA(talk) 10:31, 23 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions. TJMSmith (talk) 11:12, 23 November 2019 (UTC)


 * Merge and redirect to University of Maryland, College Park where any content on this department should be. Alexbrn (talk) 12:10, 23 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep There are many articles on university departments (54 by my count in the US alone), see Category:University departments by country. Inverse Hypercube  (talk)
 * The relevant guidance is WP:SCHOOLOUTCOMES: "Faculties, departments or degree programs within a university, college, or school are generally not considered notable unless they have made significant contributions to their field". Has this department made such a contribution? Alexbrn (talk) 17:06, 23 November 2019 (UTC)
 * I would argue that it has, see for example the review by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research which notes its research especially in data assimilation, air chemistry, and earth system science and that "[f]aculty scholarship is impressive" and that it is "amongst the few institutions in the very top tier in the U.S."; the Simple Ocean Data Assimilation; or the other developments in data assimilation, such as the local ensemble transform Kalman filter developed there, which is widely used in operational weather forecasting. Inverse Hypercube  (talk) 18:12, 23 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Not convincing. If the department was really exceptional there would be well-published secondary sources saying so. This looks just like (no doubt admirable) run-of-the-mill activity. Alexbrn (talk) 18:17, 23 November 2019 (UTC)
 * I think it clearly demonstrates "significant contributions to their field". I would challenge you to find statements according to your standard for any other departments of atmospheric sciences, except maybe MIT and UCLA, since they had an early role in the development of this field. By that standard those would be among the only notable departments (which is fine, but not consistent with other existing pages for departments, such as McGill Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, or the many other department pages). Inverse Hypercube  (talk) 18:38, 23 November 2019 (UTC)
 * WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS. What we need in this case is some source showing the exceptional contribution of this dept. I'm not seeing one. Alexbrn (talk) 18:45, 23 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Merge per nom/alexbrn. There are indeed articles on individual schools/departments, but we need considerable sources about it to justify separating it from the main university page. I'm not seeing that. &mdash; Rhododendrites  <sup style="font-size:80%;">talk \\ 17:20, 23 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Merge but to University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences. It's a bit much to have articles for every college at a university but ridiculous to do so for the 100+ individual departments. Reywas92Talk 19:17, 23 November 2019 (UTC)
 * <small class="delsort-notice">Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. Necrothesp (talk) 12:32, 25 November 2019 (UTC)


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