Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Harvard of the Midwest

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 of the debate was Delete. enochlau (talk) 00:05, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Harvard of the Midwest

This is a completely idiosyncratic nontopic. It verges on original research because, unlike Public Ivies, there is no definitive list of which schools are included, and no objective standard for which schools qualify. A few sources are cited but they do not demonstrate that the phrase is a true idiom with a well-defined meaning. The phrase simply consists of the combination of a metonymic usage of "Harvard" (to mean "exceptionally good school") with the name of a region of the country, followed by mostly unsourced opinion about which are the exceptionally good schools of the Midwest. Midwestern Ivy League was, properly, deleted; this is just another attempt to reinsert similar material in a different guise. Nominator votes delete. Dpbsmith (talk) 03:04, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

P. S. This article also has verifiability problems. It claims that every listed institution returns search engine hits, but, for example, Googling on "Harvard of the Midwest" "St. Cloud State University" turns up one hit on the Wikipedia article, one hit on a mirror, one hit saying that a different college is the "Harvard of the Midwest," and a single, sole relevant hit—from someone's "personals" ad. Not convincing evidence that St. Cloud State University is well known as "the Harvard of the Midwest." Dpbsmith (talk) 03:11, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. (ESkog)^(Talk) 03:48, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nomination. Movementarian 03:59, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom DrIdiot 04:25, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. --Terence Ong ^Talk 04:43, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as inherently POV Segv11 ^{(talk/contribs)} 06:43, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Banes 12:22, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. NeoJustin 18:58, January 7, 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as per nom. Dustimagic 19:02, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete inherently POV just about says it. Crunch 19:05, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nominator. This article points to "The MIT of...", a section with similar problems. btm 00:00, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. JDoorjam 12:15, 11 January 2006 (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.