Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Structured Liberal Education

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 No consensus. Cbrown1023 02:18, 5 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Structured Liberal Education

A non-notable, three course sequence at Stanford University. No point in merging to the Stanford article, as is not a directory or course catalog. Only references are associated with the university and therefore not independent of the subject. Delete Aagtbdfoua 15:02, 30 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Forgot to add - prod removed by IP account with no comments. - Aagtbdfoua 15:04, 30 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

del nn. `'mikka 19:30, 30 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Strong Keep I deleted the prod. I'm not the original author in disguise, but I also made a significant number of changes unmentioned by AAgtbdfoua before removing it. I made no comments only b/c (like many) I'm new to editing Wikipedia and have limited time and access to someone else's computer while on vacation to sit around registering, learning all the protocols, and otherwise trying to learn what amounts to a new language for a non-techie. (So much for a truly "democratic" knowledge base.) In any case, I just made some additional edits, adding external links to non-Stanford-"associated" publications discussing SLE, clearly demonstrating that the topic is NOTABLE. (Furthurmore, AAgtbdfoua's apparent definition of "independent of the subject" leaves much to be desired. Just because a journal or magazine is "associated" with a university "associated" with the topic, doesn't mean that the sources are not independent. We're not talking about a Microsoft newsletter about Windows.) I also added a paragraph about SLE's beginnings containing an internal link to the Hannah Arendt wiki, which already mentions her involvement with SLE & contains an internal link to the SLE wiki. Furthurmore, SLE is much more than just a course at Stanford. It is a veritable and long-standing part of Stanford tradition/culture (and there is an entire wiki category on Stanford Culture alone), as well as a well-known, highly unique, innovative, and somewhat controversial program that has served as a model for other such programs worldwide (see external links). I have also added internal links to the independent wikis on Directed Studies at Yale and the Core Curriculum at Columbia, which are comparable. There are tons of other less significant things on Wikipedia to delete if Aagtbdfoua is hell-bent on deleting things. More writing; less deleting.

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.