Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/College dropout

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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 delete. --Coredesat 04:01, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] College dropout

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per List of high school dropouts NorthernThunder 16:00, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

  • This AfD nomination was incomplete. It is listed now. DumbBOT 18:13, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep - I think this list qualifies as a "valuable information source" per WP:LIST, although obviously that opinion is subjective. Lots of celebrities and leading figures have dropped out of college/university early; this is often an important factor in their later lives. And at the same time, the list shouldn't be too long to be manageable (as long as it's restricted to notable persons only, per WP policy). Walton monarchist89 19:34, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Weak delete seems listcruft. The social phenomenon of College dropout would be an interesting topic though. Arnoutf 20:06, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete I'm with Arnoutf. Madmedea 23:02, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete Not only is this article improperly named (it should be List of College Dropouts it is also completely irrelevant listcruft. Soltak | Talk 23:59, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletions. -- SkierRMH 04:28, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete. Although there is a sociology of education article that can and should be written under this title, the current content is far from it, being an indiscriminate list that may also be vaguely unwise for WP:BLP reasons. Deleting this will not inhibit the other topic's creation, and there is no GFDL obligation to maintain unrelated material under the same title. Serpent's Choice 12:07, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Weak keep. I think Walton monarchist said it well. It's a useful and manageable list, though it suffers from the typical problems for lists without clear and fast limits. YechielMan 05:44, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete, though if we keep this article I shall be neither surprised nor particularly disappointed. At present the article looks too much like a list, and could presumably be Categorified, but perhaps the listing by later profession just scrapes over the usefulness barrier. WMMartin 14:10, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete but make it recreatable. An article that isn't a list about college dropouts would be good. Either way, needs to be renamed to "University dropouts" -137.222.10.67 11:55, 30 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.