Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject University of Virginia

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the miscellany page below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was Userfy. (Radiant) 09:39, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject University of Virginia

Allegedly has three members, not likely to experience significant growth. Interestingly only one user has edited the project page, with the exception of Durin, who removed a WP:FUC violation, so I don't know what to make of it. —freak(talk) 06:00, Nov. 9, 2006 (UTC)

• Userfy More often than not, I'd support deletion in these kinds of situations. Mostly because it seems the WikiProject doesn't seem very logical or efficient. I'm not sure if there is anything about the UofV that would require specific formatting or standards that would differ from other such articles. Collaboration of content can easily be done on the existing article talk pages. I'm a big "supporter" of WikiProjects, but if you can use the talk pages and have the same effect then you probably don't need a centralized collaboration page. That being said, this is a three day old WikiProject, and there might be something I'm missing here.. I say lets move it to the user name space and make it a proposal for a WikiProject (with notices on UofV article talk pages, etc). -- Ned Scott 06:20, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
• Neutral - I have no opinion on this: I find that although the project has members & seems half active (for the "keep" side of things), I find that its subject matter is too select & that this project only does what it's mother projects or other wider ranged projects could do... Spawn Man 10:16, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
• Weak keep - There are already four or five other projects dealing with specific universities, and this one does have some claims to notability that the others do not (being a first, being founded by Jefferson, etc.) Personally, I wish these college projects set themselves up as either subprojects of Education or their local state, though. They'd probably even get more members that way. Badbilltucker 14:24, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
• Userfy per Ned Scott. --Arnzy (talk ·  contribs) 00:55, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
• Upscope to something less narrow, per BBT, or else userify, per NS. Alai 23:24, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep; there's potential for a university wikiproject to work well; see Wikipedia:WikiProject Pennsylvania State University. Not extremely active, but a fair number of members who wouldn't have signed on unless there was a project specifically for the university. If you'd like a list of things that the project might be attributed for, let me know. --Spangineer^ws (háblame) 02:49, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
  • I wonder if we should just make a parent uni WikiProject (assuming one doesn't exist already) and make these sub-pages of that project. We could still call them "WikiProject University of Whatever" and keep their own userboxes, talk pages, to do lists, and such, but make it easier for similar projects to share things like templates and formatting standards. -- Ned Scott 04:08, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
    • Interesting idea. How would the hierarchy work; that is, in what way would these be sub-pages of a University project? --Spangineer^ws (háblame) 04:28, 14 November 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 page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.