Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Vail House

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. Mailer Diablo 07:47, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Vail House

It's an article about a student co-op house. Do we really want articles on every dorm and co-op house of every university in the world? "Has an oak tree in its front yard." "someone caulked an egg into the frame" "there was bacchanalian partying" - Uh, yeah, so? Was nominated for WP:PROD but tag was removed. FCYTravis 07:51, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

• Delete as nn-dorm. --Terence Ong 10:50, 11 February 2006 (UTC)Keep, I didn't read the article actually. For its history, keep it. --Terence Ong 01:58, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
• This is not encyclopedic, and should be deleted. - brenneman^{T}{L} 11:32, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
• Weak keep because of the history and heritage section. -- Astrokey44|talk 12:39, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. It's an historical landmark. Logophile 13:58, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. It's a subject which someone might reasonably want information on, and therefore qualifies for Wikipedia coverage. It might not be as substantive or life-changing a subject as, say , Bulbasaur, but it's a documented, nontrivial, real-world subject. If every freaking subway station in the world is per se notable, there really isn't any question about this one. Monicasdude 14:08, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
• Keep recognized by the Ann Arbor Historical Commission Ruby 14:54, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
• Comment: There are articles on three other houses in the Inter-Cooperative Council at the University of Michigan: Gregory House, Lester. Luther. There was an article for Black Elk but it was deleted. commonbrick 15:43, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. I agree with the keep comments here. The history of this non-traditional multi-University student residence is interesting and there should be more to say. I also can't see any reason to remove an historical landmark from an encyclopedia. -- 85.169.49.206 16:15, 11 February 2006 (UTC)- got logged out -- JJay 16:18, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
• Weak Keep. (I removed the prod tag, in the hope of improving the article instead. There's already been some work on that.) It's not a dorm, it's a member of a flourishing, historically significant, independent group of cooperative houses. I agree, an article on an individual coop is somewhat marginal, and I wouldn't be unhappy if it and the other ICC houses were merged back into the ICC article, which needs improvement too. On the other hand, the ICC is an important organization nationally to the coop movement, not just at Michigan (it's the "home" of NASCO, among other things), and each house has a pretty long and complex history of its own. So... a weak keep, but this isn't just the condescendingly labelled "nn-dorm." (Disclaimer: I have no connection with Vail or the ICC except for living in the same town.) —rodii 16:38, 11 February 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.