Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Weekly Innovation Challenge


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The result was   delete. ‑Scottywong | chat _ 04:58, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

Weekly Innovation Challenge

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This seems to be a minor initiative of one particular university - I don't think this is notable. Khendon (talk) 19:05, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Education-related deletion discussions.  Jinkinson   talk to me  19:19, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
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 * Delete. Agree with nom's assessment. This page was evidently created by a single-purpose account as part of a larger effort to establish WP presence for faculty/programs at a particular institution. Aside from the text being essentially WP:PROMOTION, none of the WP:RSs actually discuss WIC, but are instead about larger topics like entrepreneurship, women in mathematics, etc. I did some searching for WIC-specific sources, but aside from web and Facebook pages, I could only find the conference paper from 2012 written by the founder of the program. Agricola44 (talk) 17:48, 31 January 2014 (UTC).
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Northamerica1000(talk) 05:03, 6 February 2014 (UTC)



Disagree - Should not be deleted. In regards to not being notable, other university's have adapted this program at their school. For example, Gonzaga University, Kettering University, Lawrence Tech, University of Detroit Mercy, Ohio Northern University, and Rice University all have adapted this initiative.

This program is being used across the country in not only college settings, but also high schools to help develop an entrepreneurial mindset in students at an early age.

Rice link - http://oedk.rice.edu/innovate SR College in India also has a program - http://www.srecwarangal.ac.in/CED/home.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by 165.134.208.22 (talk) 21:36, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
 * What you are saying implies that this program was the first of its kind and inspired those at the other institutions you named. In that case, I think I would agree that SLU WIC could be notable, if sources could be found – so far, there still are none. However, it appears that WICs were going on at other institutions long before the one at SLU (evidently founded in 2011). For example, the UMass WIC was already established by 2005. Agricola44 (talk) 16:19, 12 February 2014 (UTC).
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 * Delete. No evidence of notability. Xxanthippe (talk) 23:32, 7 February 2014 (UTC).
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