Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Prospectus (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 of the debate was Keep Eluchil404 20:49, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Prospectus (university)

This was nominated with {{prod}} by another user. I don't agree with it, and feel that afd is more appropriate. --Aude (talk contribs) 03:36, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

• Strong keep. I came across Prospectus in April, when working on Mutual fund and related articles. Such business-topic articles are poorly represented in Wikipedia. Prospectus (a legal/financial document issued by mutual funds, or is filed with the SEC by individual companies) was lumped together in the same article with school prospectus (sent to prospective university students). The latter was unfamiliar to me, as an American. However, I did a google search on "prospectus" and found it was a common term used, particularly in Europe. So, I split the two uses of "prospectus" into separate articles and created a disambiguation page. I don't know a lot about prospectus (university) but think it should be kept, to explain this use of the term as opposed to the financial/legal term. --Aude (talk contribs) 03:44, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment. Just to add, a Google search of "prospectus + mutual fund" returns 2,850,000 results, while a search of "prospectus + university" returns 27,500,000 results. So, prospectus (university) seems like something notable. I don't know anything to expand the article, though. --Aude (talk contribs) 04:48, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as dicdef, unless someone expands the article (possibly with the history of prospectus in universities?)--TBCTaLk?!? 03:50, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, dicdef. We're not Wiktionary. I'll change my mind if this gets expanded somehow. --Coredesat talk. o.o;; 04:19, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Clearly notable, but that's not the issue. The article's a stub, but it's more than a dicdef. It would be nice if someone expanded it, but if we went around deleting all our stubs, we wouldn't have very many articles left! --David.Mestel 05:51, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per David.Mestel and Kmf164. College/Universtity prospectus' are well-known in the UK and Europe. I would say possibly add it to articles that need attention as I'm pretty sure there are many users that are able to bring this article above stub status (possibly by a collaborative effort involving WikiProject Universities or WikiProject Schools). —The preceding unsigned comment was added by TheJC (talk • contribs) 08:18, 30 Jun 2006 (UTC)
• Strong keep definitely notable, and as TheJC touched upon, prospectus' (prospecti?) are mass distributed by universities and private secondary schools. The article also shows potential to elevate beyond stub status, again per TheJC hoopydink^{Conas tá tú?} 08:52, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep - While it's a stub at the moment, this can be more than a dicdef if someone were to go into detail about the sort of things that appear in prospectuses (prospecti? ;-) ) in addition to Alternative Prospectuses that students of some colleges put out. Seb Patrick 09:16, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. An important set of booklets that deserve an article. I'm sure it will be expanded. --Bduke 09:18, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
• Actually, keep and expand, per above. --Coredesat talk. o.o;; 09:36, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep and rename to something like Prospectus (education), since, as has been mentioned above, documents of this type are not restricted to universities -- they are also used by many other academic institutions, including colleges and private schools. — Haeleth Talk 12:48, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, but rename per Haeleth's suggestion. Seems to be a topic that is easily expanded on well past the dictionary definition. Kuru ^talk 13:35, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep - Seems to be a notable topic; the article just needs more work. --Doc Tropics 17:43, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep and expand. Zos 18:38, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, and expand as soon as possible. --HolyRomanEmperor 20:17, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep and expand. Tachyon01 23:08, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Obviously. Skinnyweed 23:28, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
• Comment. Note that though the article technically can be expanded from a dicdef, is anyone here willing to do it? Unless someone bothers to expand and clean up the article, I'm keeping my vote as delete. (I'm personally not very familiar with the subject, thus I'm not sure how to expand it)--TBCTaLk?!? 01:41, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Describes a process in useful terms - not just a definition. Shenme 03:16, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
• Keep general nomination should be discarded. OMEN 03:17, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
• Strong Keep An important and well-known term Lurker 10:12, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Well-known to me and, no doubt, thousands of other graduates. Without the prospectus, prospective UK university candidates would not know the variety of course structures and subjects that the UK educational system offers. They must have a rich history and are deserving of an encyclopaedic article. -- Alias Flood 12:22, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
• Keep agree with above comments. Timrollpickering 09:35, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

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