User talk:Outdoorvegan
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Hi Outdoorvegan! Thanks for your message.
The articles you mentioned are being deleted by others, for the same reasoning I used: our criteria for inclusion in our encyclopedia include a rule that subjects be notable in and of themselves in the wider world. If they are not, then they are deleted under criterion for speedy deletion A7 - lack of notability.
You said: "While such a page might be promotional, it would also be of interest to anyone who wanted to know about the university in general". Two issues with that sentence that I can think of. First of all, "promotional". Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not the Yellow Pages. Second, if the subject is primarily "of interest to anyone who wanted to know about the university in general" then the information is best included on the page about the University, rather than lost on its own page.
You might like to consider adding a paragraph about your co-op to the university's article if you feel the information would be useful to people.
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Welcome, Outdoorvegan!
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