Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics

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. (aeropagitica) 00:18, 12 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

This is almost entirely C&P from various sections of the VT ESM site:

• http://www.esm.vt.edu/
• http://www.esm.vt.edu/php/twocol.php?content=facposition2006&sb=31

Furthermore, it's a single department at one university. Needs a lot more to prove notability. VT hawkeye_{talk to me} 22:50, 6 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge -- to Virginia Tech. Is a part of VT. Bearly541 23:20, 6 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • The reasons I chose to AFD rather than merge are (a) that no other department is mentioned in the overall VT page, nor should they be (that's too deep detail for a top-level article, especially at a school with 60 bachelor's and 140 postgrad programs), and (b) this whole article is C&P copyvio. There's nothing worth salvaging here. VT hawkeye_{talk to me} 04:19, 7 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • At the University of Virginia, the departments are EXTENSIVELY linked on one page. You can model the university's webpage after your rival. Bearly541 05:23, 7 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete and merge any salvagable content to parent. Like subsidiaries of big companies, individual departments can be notable enough for a separate article but only if sources support that. For an international angle, see the AFD debate on Department of Law Calcutta University. Mereda 08:04, 7 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete and really... there isn't a need to merge, it is a dept. it already has had the merge tag on it for months... no one did it, just delete it. --Buridan 12:54, 7 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete without merge. It may fall under speedy-g12 (spam) anyway. Patstuart^talk|edits 13:45, 7 December 2006 (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.