Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Thayer Dining Hall

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The result of the debate was delete. Woohookitty 09:59, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thayer Dining Hall

Non-notable college dining hall. Zoe 07:09, August 24, 2005 (UTC)

• It is, Sir, as I have said, just a small dining hall. And yet there are those who love it. Faethon387 13:04, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

• Redirect to Dartmouth college. It seems pretty clear to me. --Apyule 07:49, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

Reserve until someone has a good idea as to what should happen to it.

• • Well, I didn't want to lose the info if it is redirect-worthy, but the Dartmouth article is already huge. Zoe 08:11, August 24, 2005 (UTC)
    • That is a good point. There isn't space in the Dartmouth article for anything in this, but at the same time I don't think that a whole individual article is needed for a single dining hall. The homework thing below complicates things too. --Apyule 12:31, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
• Please note that this may be the result of this homework set for Dartmouth college students every Summer. See User:Dpbsmith/Dartmouth, and Wikipedia:School and university projects - instructions for students. Uncle G 09:15:02, 2005-08-24 (UTC)

Which makes me wonder how many student would find their way to User:Dpbsmith/Dartmouth#Why avoid creating articles about small facets of Dartmouth life?, maybe we should get this in a place where they can't avoid it, like a temporary 'banner' at the top of Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia as they are told to read that before contributing> Alf 13:46, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

The guide(s) weren't really done in time. I doubt that any of User:Pcw's students even saw it. But let's relax. Last year there were literally dozens of articles like this one. This year, I think there were only a handful. This makes me think that even though the written assignment doesn't mention it, the word must have gotten out anyway. If the ratio of good articles to problem articles is 100:1, as I think it is this year, I don't think we need to do anything special about it at all. Dpbsmith (talk) 15:11, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

I couldn't be more relaxed if I tried : ), fair 'nuff, no worries then.Alf 18:34, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

I have to wonder what grade this student will get, considering their first two entries were copyvios. Zoe 05:16, August 25, 2005 (UTC)

• Delete, because the article does not point out anything notable about the dining hall. I don't even think this is worth merging into Dartmouth College. I would reconsider if evidence were presented showing that the "etched-leather paintings" were of encyclopedic interest (who painted them? are they famous? old?) and if someone were to upload an image of them. By the way, the assignment asks students to "please register and use a name that makes sense," which this contributor did not do. Dpbsmith (talk) 13:35, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Not notable, and is more Dartmouth vanity than anything else. -- Kaszeta 14:20, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete.Subject falls below threshhold. Dottore So 14:36, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Agree with Dpbsmith's views, in particular. Anville 15:07, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete nn dininghallcruft. But, man, could I go on about my college dining hall. --Etacar11 02:18, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
• Merge to Dartmouth College Delete Changed my mind...Roodog2k 17:38, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

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