Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cambridge College Networks

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 on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was DELETE. — JIP | Talk 05:41, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Cambridge College Networks

Please note that a related page Cambridge University Computer Network is also being considered for deletion

• Delete This article seems to have been produced by a Cambridge University computing lab assistant, who wanted to provide a guide for new students and visitors to the specific policies and technical details for the computer networks at different Cambridge University colleges.

I think this is inappropriate for an encyclopedia - this information belongs on the cambridge computer lab website. Wikipedia is not an universal bulletin board (imagine if every university decided to put information about their specific policies on networks, accommodation, catering, discipline etc. on wikipedia). I don't even think this information belongs with the Cambridge University wikipedia entry. Bwithh 18:18, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

• Keep. The information about college networking policies is useful and much of it is not available elsewhere. It is as important to many people, for instance, as the fact that colleges have dining facilities, or that large numbers of people use bicycles for transportation in the city. Without having it mentioned on Wikipedia, however, most of these people wouldn't even realize that there might be anything to be concerned about until they have moved to Cambridge and enrolled in a college or department whose policies they find unacceptable. They will be stuck at this point since there is no way to get DSL in college housing or departmental offices. As I've written it, the page is incomplete, but I think it should be fleshed out and not deleted. I am a prospective student, not a lab assistant. A5 19:15, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

Feel free to create a web site containing the information chowells 19:36, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. This isn't a user manual for the kids from Cambridge. Are we going to see the sherry list at High Table dinners next? Pilatus 19:17, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

There seems to be a persistant misunderstanding that this information is provided for people already at Cambridge. While it may be useful for students, it is mostly aimed at prospective students who will want to know what they are getting into. Freedom to use the internet, wired or wirelessly, to share it with visiting friends, etc. is a little more important than sherry. A5 19:29, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

Depends on the sherry.--Calton | Talk 00:40, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. Perhaps general information about college network policies is worth an article, but this belongs on a Cambridge site, whether it is for current or prospective students. Pgengler 19:33, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete Completely useless in the context of wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a manual, as well as not being a lot of other things chowells 19:36, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete Doesn't Cambridge has a webpage for this information, to be updated by officials? No doubt of the good intention to serve prospective students, but the content isn't appropriate for wikipedia. Please transfer the content to a Cambridge website, and create an external link in University of Cambridge instead. --Vsion 19:38, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. That the information is useful doesn't make it encyclopedic. CUDES tried to collect such information a few years ago, it could be reactivated and collect it again, or CUSU could provide such information for prospective students, or both, but in any case an encyclopedia isn't the right host. Joseph Myers 19:47, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, wikipedia isn't a hosting solution. Suggest the author open a MySpace or Blogspot account.--Isotope23 20:13, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. WP:NOT a webspace provider. PacknCanes 22:34, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Creator should speak to CUSU though, they may well be interested and help make this info available. Wikipedia just isn't the place for it. the wub "?!" 23:02, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Far too localized info. --Calton | Talk 00:40, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Unencyclopedic information which belongs on University of Cambridge website. Andrew pmk | Talk 01:21, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Unmaintainable detailed techical info that may change at any moment. mikka (t) 00:19, 13 October 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 an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.