Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mohandas College
- 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 Keep AFD is not cleanup. Never-will-be-admin closure. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 19:53, 19 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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Well, the introduction is a copyvio: http://www.mcetonline.com/ (The rest of the article probably is too on another website, seeing how it really promotes the school stuff, though, I didn't check it) And it is written like an advertisement to go to this college. BrianY (talk) 03:12, 19 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep Although the article in its current state is clearly in violation of WP:ADVERT, in my opinion we have to look at potential notability and not just the current state. And frankly the nom has not convinced me that this engineering college is non-notable. One look at demonstrates that articles on engineering colleges within universities are not non-notable for that reason alone. And if there can be an article on an engineering college within Harvard University, why not one within the University of Kerala? A Stop at Willoughby (talk) 03:47, 19 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- The one look produced the look that it was a copyvio. (which it is) I don't suggest (as I think you are trying to say) that it is not non-notable because it is an engineering college. BrianY (talk) 03:54, 19 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- I would urge people to look here: http://www.mcetonline.com/ and then click on "college." The article could well qualify for the speedy deletion copyvio now. BrianY (talk) 04:03, 19 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- I understand that, but I think that in this case WP:COPYVIO is an argument for reducing the article to a stub and building it up from there – not for deletion. Since the subject of the article has potential notability, it's important in my opinion to keep the article, remove the parts of the article that violate the policy (most of the article, I suppose), and start almost from scratch. A Stop at Willoughby (talk) 04:09, 19 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- NOTE I have stubbed the article to its pre-copyvio June 2007 version; so it is no longer a speedy candidate. Now that copyvio is no longer an issue, the AFD discussion can continue to see if it meets our notability standards. Abecedare (talk) 16:57, 19 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- I understand that, but I think that in this case WP:COPYVIO is an argument for reducing the article to a stub and building it up from there – not for deletion. Since the subject of the article has potential notability, it's important in my opinion to keep the article, remove the parts of the article that violate the policy (most of the article, I suppose), and start almost from scratch. A Stop at Willoughby (talk) 04:09, 19 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- I would urge people to look here: http://www.mcetonline.com/ and then click on "college." The article could well qualify for the speedy deletion copyvio now. BrianY (talk) 04:03, 19 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. -- -SpacemanSpiff 04:07, 19 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. -- -SpacemanSpiff 04:07, 19 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep as a verifiable [1] degree awarding educational institution, but move to Mohandas College of Engineering and Technology, which is its full name. Abecedare (talk) 17:07, 19 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep and move to Mohandas College of Engineering and Technology. Abecedare has already removed the copy vios; it's now referenced and is a verifiable degree awarding educational institution. -SpacemanSpiff 17:33, 19 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep. A degree offering educational institute affiliated to University of Kerala. Salih (talk) 19:15, 19 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep - as a degree-awarding institution. Nice work by SpacemanSpiff. I disagree with BrianY in that speedy deletion was never an option since there was a clean version that could be reverted to. I would commend a read of WP:G12 which states "Only if the history is unsalvageably corrupted should it be deleted in its entirety; earlier versions without infringement should be retained"; seems pretty clear to me. TerriersFan (talk) 19:22, 19 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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