Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wessex Hall


 * 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. Anyone who wants the content to merge it somewhere need only contact me on my talk page. Stifle (talk) 10:01, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

Wessex Hall

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Non-notable university accommodation, currently unreferenced with extremely limited possibilities for addition of reliable sources. Nomoskedasticity (talk) 09:38, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep. It is pretty old accomodation, so I wouldn't be surprised if sources could be found. Examples from google: (mentioned on 3 separate pages),, and there seems to be more available. This sort of accomodation is more akin to an Oxbridge college than just a block of student flats. Creeps over notability theshold as far as I'm concerned. Quantpole (talk) 13:16, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment: Don't know anything about this subject, but a similar sounding AfD recently concluded as a keep: Articles_for_deletion/Dunmore_Lang_College
 * Comment - Dunmore_Lang_College is a different type of body. It is an autonomous college that employs its own resident tutors to provide teaching within the college. TerriersFan (talk) 00:42, 16 September 2009 (UTC)--Milowent (talk) 16:09, 10 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete In all cases where the residence hall is not of special note in some manner, or actually historic, or has significant wider functions. I see nothing to indicate it has the teaching function of an Oxbridge college.  The place for this is on the university web site.  The other AfD was I think a strange extension of the notability criteria, especially considering there were no 3rd party sources at all--except sources on the person the hall was named after. Here there isn't even that--the mentions in the refs cited are mere mentions in a comprehensive survey of the university,  not substantial discussions.  DGG ( talk ) 18:55, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Education-related deletion discussions. Nomoskedasticity (talk) 14:45, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions. Thryduulf (talk) 12:52, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Merge any encyclopaedic information about this hall into The University of Reading, unless someone wants to create an article about the halls. Again, the vast majority of information here belongs on the Reading University website. Chris Neville-Smith (talk) 17:49, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Merge. My preference would be to create a new article University of Reading Halls of Residence along the lines of University of Exeter Halls of Residence. An alternative plan would be to merge the content into the page on the the campus; this really needs an editorial discussion to establish a strategy. Either way the content should be heavily edited but not deleted. The comparison with Oxbridge colleges is, of course, fallacious. In addition to the reasoning of DGG, Oxbridge colleges control their own admission - you apply to the college whereas at Reading you apply to the University. TerriersFan (talk) 00:43, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions.  —TerriersFan (talk) 00:51, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. There are other Wessex Halls, including one that is a concert hall of the Poole Arts Centre. There are far too many dorms in the world and articles on dorms on Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not FaceBook. Abductive  (reasoning) 22:44, 18 September 2009 (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.