Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/International Student Wiki

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The result of the debate was delete. Author agreed to deletion. Joyous (talk) 02:16, August 4, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] International Student Wiki

This seems to be someones dump of a brochure or advertisement for getting students to study in the USA. Not encyclopdic at all. Mrmcgibby 23:52, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

• Delete as in WP:NOT. Wikipedia is not a howto guide nor a webspace provider. drini ☎ 00:04, 30 July 2005 (UTC)

I am the one who "dumped" the article. I am no expert in the field, just someone who has had first-hand experience with the application process for US institutions (and succeeded - starting this month I'll be studying at Amherst).
It is not taken from a brochure, it is my own writing, submitted as public content, and I do not pretend it to be exhaustive. I just wanted to create a free resource to which anyone who has gone through these experience could contribute in order to help students from foreign countries, especially from developing countries who are trying to get a scholarship in the US. The intent of this guide is not to convince anyone to come to the US to study, just to provide some information in the subject. It would be counter-productive to start discussing here whether foreign students studying in the US is a good thing or not, but I suppose you can see why some people think of it as the former.
I understand that Wikipedia is not a how-to guide, and if this rule will be enforced, then so be it. However, I urge you to see the difference between a "how to build your own bookshelves" guide and such a guide whishing to provide information to high-school students from all over the World which may otherwise not be available to them.
Just one more thing, I hope that with the contribution of more international students this resource will get as exhaustive as possible and all errors be corrected - that is why I thought wikipedia to be the most suitable medium for such an undertaking
Yours sincerely,
Bogdan State
Ploiesti, Romania

You should put this information on your own wiki then. The title of the article certainly doesn't fit in the wikipedia guidelines. Again, as drini mentioned, wikipedia is not a webspace provider. I have no problem with the content of the article, it just isn't encyclopedic. Mrmcgibby 17:57, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

OK, got the point - I saved the source code on my computer and have nothing against deleting it from Wikipedia. This project will be in my own wiki in order for it not to violate Wikipedia policies. My problem was not with your observation that it is not encyclopedic, but rather such qualifications as "dumped" and the fact that it seemed to be advertising for anything.

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