Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kuvempu University

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. - Mailer Diablo 05:08, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Kuvempu University

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This article is poorly written and is completely plagarized. You can find the original article at http://www.kuvempu.ac.in/about.html and elsewhere on that site. Furthermore the notability of this school is in question Vaniac 16:21, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

• Comment The author of this article is very stubborn and has deleted db tags twice, even though the tag says that authors may not delete db tags. Furthermore, I reminded him myself and have tried to contact him but he will not respond. Vaniac 16:29, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
• Speedy delete as copyvio or completely rewrite - this is a genuine institution, given the number of Indian Wikipedians I assume someone will recreate a legitimate version of this soon enough. - Iridescenti (talk to me!) 18:09, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

I am the author of this page as of now. To put it is very simply, this is the institution I have studied in. Me and my friends thought of creating a page of our institution on Wiki. Since, we are still in the process of deciding what has to go in it, the basic material was taken from the University page. But what is said remains a fact, irrespective of how or wherefrom it is presented.

Two more things. This page will enventually be managed by the institution authorities themselves. This will be "Official Wiki" of the Kuvempu University, or that is our fervent hope. Second, this is my first Wiki post and I had lot of problems understanding the codes. They dont seem like HTML. I dont know what is DB mentioned above means.

Give us some time, this will be a fine page.

Comment The "db" mentioned above refers to the fact that the article is a good candidate for speedy deletion due to copyright violations (copyvio). Also, Wikipedia only accepts information from published resources, not first-hand accounts. So in theory, institutional authorities are in no better position to write about this school than anyone else other than the fact that they have better means of obtaining published info. But I guess I'll change my vote to keep, but speedy delete if the copywrite violations are not removed ASAP. If you need any help with coding please let me know. Vaniac 18:04, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

• Speedy delete as copyvio, but without prejudice to recreate a properly encyclopedic article from scratch. However, any attempt to turn this article into the "Official Wiki" of the institution should be summarily blocked. Wiki software is freely available, and if the institution wants an official Wiki, they can set up their own, rather than trying to hijack part of Wikipedia. See also WP:COI and WP:OWN. Xtifr _tälk 23:17, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

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