Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Residence Life

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 keep. howcheng [ t • c • w • e ] 18:08, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Residence Life

This page doesn't actually make proper English sense, but even if it did I don't think I'd consider its content inherently encyclopedic. I'm not even sure the term "residence life" is used much or that we need a definition... _└^UkPaolo/_TALK^┐ 16:34, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

• No vote. All I know is that the college I go to (BGSU) uses the term for its dorm management department. It's probably an American thing. At the same time I don't know how far beyond dic-deffing we can go. Nifboy 21:52, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep per ElKevbo. Nifboy 03:45, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
• Merge into dormitory. --Metropolitan90 03:02, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

• Keep. It's a major part of university administration and student life in American universities. The term is regularly used and it's a recognized profession with its own international organization (ACUHO-I), several annual international, national, and regional conferences and training events, and a regularly-published peer-reviewed journal. I haven't spent much time looking at the particulars of the article but the topic itself is certainly worthwhile and could be expanded into a much larger article with details about the OxBridge foundations of American residence life, the three areas of housing administration recognized by ACUHO-I (of which residence life is but one), RA recruitment, selection, and recruitment, programming requirements, living-learning communities, and so forth. I'll see what I can do to begin bringing this article up to par. --ElKevbo 07:00, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

excellent rewrite, the subject evidently does carry encyclopedic value, and I thus withdraw my nomination vote. does it not belong at Residence life however? (I didn't like to move it without knowledge on the subject myself). _└^UkPaolo/_TALK^┐ 08:25, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

I'm not sure what the consensus is on the capitalization of the two words. If pressed on the issue, I would lean towards capitalizing neither word. But it's a very minor issue and I am not inclined to worry about it.--ElKevbo 21:55, 18 December 2005 (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.