Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ryerson Library Building

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 no consensus. —Cleared as filed. 16:42, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Ryerson Library Building

Delete article about non-descript building on a university campus. Mindmatrix 15:56, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

• Delete — Indiscriminate factoid. — RJH 16:09, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, a pretty hopeless article, but the library building is architectuarally siginificant. It should perhaps be merged into a general article on all aspects of the Ryerson Library. - SimonP 16:15, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and improve. Trollderella 17:02, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete non-notable mortar. The library, by contrast, would merit an entry (# of books, notable aspects of its collection, etc...) if it doesn't have one yet. Dottore So 17:14, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, move to Ryerson Library. This micro-stub can serve as a perfectly reasonable start to that article. Jkelly 17:48, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
• Comment: Are we confusing two buildings here? The Ryerson Library in Grand Rapids is undoubtedly notable, built 1904 ([1]); the building this article is about is This one: [2], which is an anonymous concrete box apparently indistinguishable from an octodecillion other university library buildings. - Just zis  Guy, you know? ^[T]/_[C] :: AfD? 18:28, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

• Merge is my vote; I have created a stub for the more significant Ryerson Library at Grand Rapids. - Just zis  Guy, you know? ^[T]/_[C] (W) AfD? 11:39, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
• Hideousness has little to do with whether a building is of architectural interest. The Ryerson Library is one of Toronto's most prominent examples of Burtalism. - SimonP 22:50, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

• Delete non-notable concrete block, or merge with the university article if the library isn't mentioned there yet. — Haeleth Talk 18:59, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep per SimonP or merge somewhere. Kappa 20:02, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete nn libary, I will accept a merge with the univeritity article --JAranda | watz sup 20:07, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Non-notable, merging with the university article would be acceptable. Durova 20:09, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

Just a procedural comment, anyone can merge anything at any time without a vote. It is not the same as deleting, and requires that the article be kept. Delete or merge, is the same as saying 'black' or 'white', 'kill' or 'cure', 'on' or 'off'. It's quite confusing. Trollderella 03:07, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

Sure, but once it's here I for one feel uncomfortable prematurely curtailing the debate. - Just zis  Guy, you know? ^[T]/_[C] (W) AfD? 21:59, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

• Merge to Ryerson University and leave a redirect. Vegaswikian 07:51, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
• delete NN Pete.Hurd 22:05, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
• Merge info on the building with article on the university or the actual library. --maclean25 06:09, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete or Redirect -- An article on Ryerson's library would be helpful, but this article is not worthwhile. There's nothing here that is even worth merging with a library article. Further to SimonP's comment above, the building might merit a mention in an article on Brutalist Architecture in Toronto (that would be a *long* article), but that's it. Skeezix1000 14:53, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
• Merge with the university article. *drew 04:38, 16 November 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.