Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/University of Oxford undergraduate admissions statistics


 * 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 delete. The Bushranger One ping only 02:27, 24 November 2017 (UTC)

University of Oxford undergraduate admissions statistics

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Notability is not inherited from Oxford, and we are not an indiscriminate collection of statistics. Admissions statistics may belong at other articles (University of Oxford, college pages etc.) but we do not need them in such inordinate detail. Additionally, the text is entirely non-neutral and the article has been used as a coatrack to write about the lack of diversity and institutionalised prejudice in the university (which I agree exists, but is not limited to Oxford, and WP is not here to right great wrongs). — Bilorv(talk)(c)(e) 00:51, 9 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 23:39, 12 November 2017 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Comment A smidge of the content might be worth merging into University of Oxford. (Like the sentence "As epitomised by the Laura Spence Affair, the admissions policies of the University of Oxford and its constituent colleges have over the years been frequently criticized for a number of different reasons, including the overrepresentation of students educated at fee-paying private schools and the underrepresentation of students from minority ethnicity groups" and its attached references. Well, the word "frequently" might not work, but overall it does appear a legitimate point that can be supported with RS.) XOR&#39;easter (talk) 01:44, 13 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete and merge any relevant content into University of Oxford. The article is clearly just an excuse to berate Oxford for its lack of diversity. Even if the article was rewritten to be entirely neutral and factual, Wikipedia is not the right place for archiving admission statistics, and so should be deleted as out of scope. BabelStone (talk) 13:30, 13 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Merge in part, but an article on the admission rates could probably be written, if an effort were made to find discussio nas well as numbers.  DGG ( talk ) 04:00, 15 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Note I went in with intention of cleaning up the article a bit but ended up deleting all the tables as they were 1) unsourced, and 2) presumed copyright violations. --Pontificalibus (talk) 08:53, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Sandstein   18:56, 16 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete this isn't an encyclopedic topic on its own. Neutral on the merge/redirect to University of Oxford. power~enwiki ( π,  ν ) 02:52, 21 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete. The topic isn't encyclopedic. The article would be an amusing joke, I checked to see if that was the case but it isn't, in the article history there are reams of meaningless statistics since deleted. Szzuk (talk) 20:14, 23 November 2017 (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.