Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Weld Hall

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The result of the debate was no consensus. · Katefan0^(scribble) 22:03, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Weld Hall

nn Dormitory see above --Aranda56 06:19, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

• Delete per submitter. --GraemeL ^(talk) 12:00, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep historic building on Harvard Yard, with architectural significance. -- DS1953 19:09, September 5, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. These are notable as examples of early American archetecture. Let's see if the stubs grow. I would not be opposed to a merge and redirect to a list of freshman dorms, however. Sdedeo 19:53, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
• merge probably does not warrant own article. --TimPope 20:34, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete as Harvardcruft. --- Kjkolb 05:12, September 6, 2005 (UTC)
• delete Everything at Harvard is NOT notable by default. Roodog2k (talk) 18:23, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

Clearly a Princeton man ;) Oh, delete Dottore So 01:40, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

• Comment I am confused. The Library of Congress' American Memory project entitled American Landscape and Architectural Design, 1850-1920 devotes a page to Harvard University buildings and this is one of the buildings covered as part of that retrospective. I took a one line stub, did the research, added history and a photograph and came up with what I thought was a decent short article on a notable building by a respected architect of the period. And I get comments like the last three. Is it really that bad or is no one checking the article before they vote? -- DS1953 04:06, September 9, 2005 (UTC)
  • Past votes have been to not keep articles for every dorm. If there was an article about historic Harvard buildings, like in your source, then the content might be viewed in a more favorable light. Vegaswikian 05:38, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
  • Can the content be saved somewhere pending the creation of such an article? I would not object to a consolidated article. -- Kjkolb 12:53, September 9, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep (or perhaps merge with an article on architecturally notable buildings at Harvard, which could serve as a model for similar articles for other older campuses). DS1953, nice photo, decent small article, sorry you are suffering the consequences of all those overenthusiastic folk (teachers, parents?) out there who create articles on incredibly non-notable "magnet preschools" :-/ and so forth. There are people (not many, but they exist) who choose to spend to spend their vacations traveling to famous campuses around the world, where they can be seen snapping photographs of unusual architectural details. Harvard and Oxbridge would be prominent examples of campuses which would be notable even if they did not feature some many historic or at least architecturally notable buildings.---CH (talk) 21:48, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

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