Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Andrew Melville Hall

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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 was Keep. Agent 86 04:12, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Andrew Melville Hall

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Default non-notability of student halls of residence. The article is full of unsourced subjective appreciation and spam links. However, saving grace (per notability) is that it was designed by a famous architect (not that all works of famous artists are notable), and that the design was so badly executed that it cost tons of taxpayers' money in remedial work. Ohconfucius 05:55, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

  • Keep The building is considered (by some) to be one of the most notable C20th buildings in Scotland (http://www.e-architect.co.uk/scotland/scottish_design_show.htm for example). However I agree that some of the current content is not of encyclopedic quality, but this makes it a candidate for editing rather than deletion. WhaleyTim 09:43, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep strangely, per nom's reasons. --Docg 13:21, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep. The article establishes the building's notability as such: "It has become an important architectural landmark and has been ranked number 12 in the top 100 Scottish buildings of the last 50 years." (That remark should be sourced, though.) --Elkman - (Elkspeak) 20:38, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep Halls of residence have been organised into the category University of St Andrews halls of residence. This seems to be the normal approach for posting halls of residences for British Universities on Wikipedia (for example: University of Bristol Halls of Residence, University of Manchester halls of residence, University of Reading halls of residence, etc.) --John345er 01:21, 6 January 2007 (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.