Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bexley Hall (MIT)

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 merge and redirect to List of MIT dormitories. —[[User:Mysekurity|Mysekurity]] ^{[[additions | e-mail]]} _{04:10, 8 November 2005 (UTC)}

[edit] Bexley Hall (MIT)

Dorm at MIT. No assertion for notability. Searching Google, I can't find anything that sets this apart from any other dorm on any other campus [1]. Delete.--Isotope23 17:42, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

• Weak Keep though the article should mention that Bexley was the source of most of the East Coast's LSD, back in the day. Anville 22:08, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
• Merge with main MIT article. — Haeleth Talk 22:36, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
• Either delete or merge with MIT article. DenisMoskowitz 00:38, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
• Comment MIT article is already over 40 kB. Fg2 01:57, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
• Comment (added because the article said that it was a candidate for deletion), which would be a shame, since the article is rich with history and humor, and very well written. I suppose I don't care where it goes, as long as it is not deleted completely. My first vote would be to leave it as is, and reference it from the main MIT article.
• Keep Normally, I'd support merge with MIT, but as mentioned MIT is too long already. One thing here is that a lot of the MIT incoming student types might be the kind of person who might consult wikipedia to get an idea of what the various dorms are like before picking one. Actually, a general article on MIT dorms with a section for each would be OK, without inflating the MIT article size, but until them, keep. Gzuckier 03:22, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
• Merge with other MIT dorms and redirect to List of MIT dormitories, as was done with the Harvard dormitories. Uppland 06:17, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Are there any other MIT dorm articles? DenisMoskowitz 15:01, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
    • Actually, the only one I can find in the MIT cat is Baker House, which should perhaps still be kept separate, as it is built by a notable architect. But merging this dorm with the main MIT article seems like overloading it with cruft. Uppland 06:04, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Bexley may be more notable than other dorms at MIT, but that doesn't make it notable. I don't recall hearing anything about it after visiting MIT or spending years living in Massachusetts. ^L_Wizard @ 22:21, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

• Keep or Move Dorms are an important part of university life, espicially those with distinctive character. However, inclusion of such information in university main articles causes those articles to become bloated and takes away from information about the academic side of the university. As such, there is adequate reason for articles on dorms to exist.

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.