Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Campus Disorientation

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The result was redirect to Student activism. Mark Arsten (talk) 17:51, 13 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Campus Disorientation

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This is not an encyclopedia topic. A few webpages where universities encourage new students to learn whereabouts they are going, aren't important. Barney the barney barney (talk) 09:29, 3 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, this IS indeed an encyclopedia topic. It is a major set of organized activities on many campuses. It is a social phenomenon, and worthy of an article. It goes by different names in different countries and therefore the wikipedia piece can help people understand the practice. I know many people who have participating in such events. Both of my schools had disorientation weeks. Do not speak about which you do not know. Let the users decide. Thank you. User: Anonymous — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.203.74.69 (talk) 13:26, 3 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Delete The title, at least, does not seem encyclopedic or of long standing. US colleges, at least, had leftist campus activists running during orientation week around handing out leaflets denouncing the administration and the mainstream student organizations, and military training, decades before someone pinned the "disorientation" label on it. "Disorientation" as promoted by a website not referenced yet in the article seems a small and recent movement and does not appear to satisfy WP:ORG. Only a few schools have refs for "disorientation" as such, and secondary coverage of the specific "Disorientation" movement is lacking. The general topic of student dissidents, and the history of student activism, antiwar, the US civil rights struggle, anarchy, student radicals, anti-capitalism, etc should certainly be covered in Wikipedia, and are at Student activism. This new "Disorientation" movement could be mentioned there, so a Smerge (slight merge) might be appropriate. Edison (talk) 14:36, 3 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Education-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 19:37, 3 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000^(talk) 21:57, 4 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to Student activism, per WP:ORG, WP:BEFORE - possible search term. -- Trevj (talk) 09:27, 6 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

There are dozens of disorientation campaigns happening around the country, we are beefing up the text and resources for the wikipedia page and will be updating it soon. The student activism page needs a lot of work, actually, thank you for pointing that out. Let's see what we can get together for this page and if it best fits into Student activism so be it, but I do feel that this is worthy of its own page. Thanks for your patience. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Owen Other (talk • contribs) 23:08, 6 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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.