Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Williams Record

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 on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was NO CONSENSUS. -Splash^talk 18:08, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Williams Record

A small student newspaper, I really don't see the need for an entire article devoted to this. I have taken the time to add it to List_of_college_newspapers. However most of the papers there don't have an article devoted just to themselves. Malo 18:14, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

• Keep and Expand or get rid of every last college newspaper. I think as a real media source they have encyclopedic value, that is, albiet minor, above the level of cruft. CastAStone 18:28, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete or merge school newspapers. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 20:36, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
• I would suggest merge with Williams College, except that seems to have more information already. No evidence it can be expanded any further without descending into waffle. Average Earthman 20:38, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
• Per Earthman's point, delete it then. Dottore So 22:45, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
• Redirect to Williams College. I was going to concur with deletion per Average Earthman. But there are two issues: having the information and finding it. When I do a Wikipedia global search on "Williams Record", Williams Record is the first hit, and Williams College does not come up at all in the remaining twenty hits. Therefore if someone actually searches on "Williams Record," they will find it if we have the redirect and they will probably not find it if we do not. (On the other hand, when I do a Google search on Wikipedia for "Williams Record" I get the relevant part of the Williams College article, so deleting this article wouldn't affect anyone trying to find the same information via Google.) Dpbsmith (talk) 23:06, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. The page claims that the publication is independent of the Williams College, so it doesn't seem quite appropriate to delete and merge it with the page of the college. There are a bunch other articles on student newspapers (w:Category:Student newspapers) and this one does not necessarily seem less relevant than some of the others. The article certainly has the potential to be expanded and it can easily be verified that it is a legit source of news [1]. Btm 04:36, 8 October 2005 (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 an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.