Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/University of Wisconsin (disambiguation)

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 16:59, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] University of Wisconsin (disambiguation)

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Page is superfluous as University of Wisconsin is now a redirect to UW-Madison. Per consensus on the talk page, the article can be deleted and the relevant information placed in the specific articles as history of the various universities. PaddyM 19:59, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

• Delete per nom as nominator. PaddyM 20:03, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
• Delete with the condition that a "University of Wisconsin" redirects here. Please see "University of Wisconsin System" (or similar) message remains at the top of the University of Wisconsin-Madison article. – Lordmontu _{(talk) • (contribs)} 22:17, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
• Delete as per nomination and consensus reached on the talk page. Madmaxmarchhare 00:02, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment: There is no consensus on the talk page. No change of vote. Andrewa 10:54, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
• Delete per nom and what Lordmontu said about the hatnote on University of Wisconsin-Madison. —Mira 01:13, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
• Delete. As much as my bias towards certain other Wisconsin universites likes the disambiguation, the straight redirect to UW-Madison with Lordmontu's message is both the best solution and apparent consensus. Also, move the talk page back to Talk:University of Wisconsin to preserve the discussion, since I have a feeling this'll come up again in the future. BryanG^(talk) 06:36, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
• Keep. What possible harm can the disambiguation page do, especially considering that University of Wisconsin was the official name of an institution that no longer exists but whose name will appear on documents of the period, see this former version. Andrewa 10:45, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
• Delete. Agree with nom, except that I don't think consensus has been reached on the talk page. --Akhilleus (talk) 17:18, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
• Keep I can't see why a disambiguation page should be deleted unless there's no possible ambiguity. However, in this case, it does seem that there is some possibility of multiple meanings. FrozenPurpleCube 21:04, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
• Delete The disambiguation page should be built in the "University of Wisconsin" page. "University of Wisconsin (disambiguation)" is useless. Miaers 15:24, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
• Strong Keep - DABs are cheap! The entire point of a disambiguation page is to send people to the right place; and as the history of this and related articles shows, there are people who mean different things by the phrase, and documents from some periods will mean different things by it than documents from other periods. The old DAB article was finally pretty darned good, and now people are seemingly determined to mess it up, for reasons I don't understand (other than Madison supremacism, a theory I am rejecting on the "assume good will" principle). --Orange Mike 18:01, 29 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.