Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Directed Studies

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, defaults to keep. - Liberatore(T) 16:50, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Directed Studies

This article is not about "directed studies" in general, just a program by that name at a single university. Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. An individual academic program at a university is generally too narrow a topic to warrant an article of its own. I recommend a delete. --Metropolitan90 04:32, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

• Keep - Yale is notable enough, and this course is widely known, so I say keep. - Richardcavell 04:38, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
• Rename to Directed Studies at Yale University per Richardcavell. Kimchi.sg 04:40, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - unless this course/program has lead to some kind of success and results in terms of academic achievement, I fail to see how a random university course/subject is notable. It's not as though there is a suggestion that this program won intervarsity competitions for the university or anything similar.ßlηguγΣη | Have your say!!! - review me 04:54, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - not notable enough, no reason to expect article to grow beyond the content on the program's own website, which, if notable enough, could be linked to from the main Yale University article. --Ajdz 05:04, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep as it is, unless the term "directed studies" is used to describe great books programs elswhere. If so, then rename per Kimchi and maybe merge some of it with Great Books. 216.227.122.37 05:28, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, this curriculum is no more notable than the thousands of others currently present at American universities. — GT 05:53, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
• Comment I don't think this is suitable for it's own article. Would merging it with the Yale article be feasible? Darquis 06:44, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep - Yale's page is already huge, and Wikipedia's not paper. PRRfan 12:03, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep just as we keep PPE. Batmanand | Talk 15:32, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as per GT. -- Kjkolb 16:29, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, extremely well-known and internationally recognized program, e.g., [1] Monicasdude 22:06, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment Is anybody else getting a broken link for Monicasdude's link?ßlηguγΣη | Have your say!!! - review me 00:23, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
    • Response. Link fixed. I lost the very last character in the URL, but it looked OK after I cut-and-pasted (.htm rather than .html). Monicasdude 00:54, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per Ajdz & Blnguyen. --Srikeit^{(talk ¦ ✉)} 01:17, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Keep--this page is interesting and part of the larger movement of core programs in the humanities, which popped up in America in the mid-to-second-half of the 20th century.

• Keep & rename without redirect Academic programs should usualy be merged into the schools page if possible, but the Yale page is huge. If there are existing pages on appropriate parts of Yale, this program couple be merged to one of those, and the new name couple become a redirect. JeffBurdges 14:43, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, an uni may be reputed but all of its courses need not be. Also, there is very little academic support (almost nil relevant web hits) for the course outside the uni. --soUmyaSch 14:47, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Kuzaar 00:55, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
• weak Keep and rename per Monicasdude's citation. It is a notable program. JoshuaZ 03:09, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
• First preference: Smerge to Yale University, second preference: rename to Directed Studies at Yale University. Stifle (talk) 23:42, 5 May 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.