Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Atherton Hall (Penn State)

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The result was keep in some form: no consensus for merge. --Sam Blanning^(talk) 15:26, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Atherton Hall (Penn State)

Dormitory with no historical or architectural significance. A student died there when she fell from an elevator, but this produced exactly one external news story (outside the collegiate paper). There is nothing to distinguish this dorm from the hundreds of other dorms on college campuses across the U.S. Delete--Isotope23 18:42, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

• Weak keep or merge into List of Penn State residence halls; the death did receive a fair amount of press (see [1], and I'm pretty sure the Centre Daily Times of State College covered it). Also, Atherton is home to the Schreyer Honors College offices, making it an administrative building of some importance. I'm not sure if that's enough for an article though. --Spangineer^es (háblame) 18:53, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

• Comment, the only non collegiate paper I see from those links that covered it is the Post-Gazette (which I ref'd in my nom). Schreyer Honors College is housed in Atherton, but since it already has a rather nice article of it's own that mentions Atherton, I don't think it necessarily justifies a standalone article on the residence hall. I don't have any objections to mention in other articles about Penn State (it is already mentioned in List of Penn State residence halls), I just don't see any justification for an article about the dorm itself.--Isotope23 19:01, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

• See [2], [3], and the Seattle Times link at the bottom of the second page of results if you have an account with them. --Spangineer^es (háblame) 19:29, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

• Keep - If there is enough for a non-stub article and it's a part of the farm of articles for that university, keep it. It would be one thing if there was a stub for every building and none of them were ever going to be expanded ... but there seems to have been some discretion here and they only have articles on their somewhat notable buildings. BigDT 19:01, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
• Merge - The information contained in this article could be easily fit into both Schreyer Honors College and List of Penn State residence halls. In addition, a general policy needs to be set for denoting "notable PSU buildings". Rctbone 20:42, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

• Yes please; that would be awesome. The PSU wikiproject hasn't faced many AfDs so far, so we're still testing the waters of what is notable and what isn't in the eyes of the overall community. --Spangineer^es (háblame) 21:12, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

• Comment I could get behind a merge. In regards to what Rctbone has stated, I'd like to see a general guideline for University buildings... I'm not trying to pick on the PSU set of articles by any means, I think most college dorms don't really merit a standalone article unless they have a compelling architectural or historic context (and I've not seen many articles about other college buildings but I would extend that rasoning. Mention at Schreyer Honors College seems the best route.--Isotope23 12:57, 3 August 2006 (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.