Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering people

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 speedy deleted, CSD G5: Creation by a banned or blocked user in violation of ban or block. --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 15:54, 8 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

List of NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering people

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This article is a duplicate of the content at List of NYU Polytechnic Institute people. It has been created in an effort to circumvent the page protection at List of NYU Polytechnic Institute people. It was tagged for speedy deletion under WP:CSD#A10, but that tag was removed by another editor, with the explanation that the author's vandalistic removal of the tag was justified since they had explained why they removed the tag. (The intervening editor has been informed of the error of this action.) However, since a third party has intervened, we are brought here to AFD to resolve what should be a CSD issue. WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 23:21, 7 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Comment As evidence of the circumvention, please read this edit on my talk page. WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 23:29, 7 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy delete per A10: Yes, I realize I made an error. It was largely the fault of that I didn't realize List of NYU Polytechnic Institute people existed, and I thought this one would make a good page. Let's just speedy this and move along. I've re-tagged it for deletion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lugia2453 (talk • contribs) 23:37, 7 February 2013‎

Strong keep and redirect the other one, which is seriously messed up, to this one--Widetimed (talk) 23:39, 7 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to the other article. RNealK (talk) 23:44, 7 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This article should not be deleted or redirected because it has way more improved and sourced informations. The other article is only for Brooklyn Poly. This one is for the former NYU School of Engineering and Brooklyn Poly. Former and now defunct NYU School of Engineering merged with Brooklyn Poly, which in turn merged with NYU .Redirect the other one — Preceding unsigned comment added by Widetimed (talk • contribs) 01:14, 8 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The college' new name is NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering http://www.poly.edu/news/2012/12/17/nyu-affiliation-campus-expansion-covered-town-hall--Widetimed (talk) 02:00, 8 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Comment This institution has changed names like some people change socks. Founded as Brooklyn Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute, it spent most of its life being known as "Brooklyn Poly" until the 1970s when it went through a series of name changes, including Polytechnic Institute of New York, Polytechnic University of New York (PUNY, a particular favorite of mine), Polytechnic University (no location given -- they're just that good), NYU/Poly after a merge with NYU, and now finally NYU/Polytechnic School of Engineering. If were to create a new article every time the name changes, we'd go crazy. The proper solution in such cases is to move the page, rather than to create an entirely new page. But this all dodges the fact that the new page was created specifically to circumvent the page protection on the original page, which protection was put in place specifically to avoid the kind of spammy content that the new page has. WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 12:35, 8 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Comment List of NYU Polytechnic Institute people only lists a very few notable and non-notable alumni of Polytechnic University of New York (PUNY, a spoof of CUNY or SUNY). List of NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering people contains alumni of the now defunct NYU School of Engineering (it merged with PUNY in 1970) and Brooklyn Polytechnic. PUNY merged with NYU in 2008. List of NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering people is updated, has almost double the amount of notable alumni and faculty with artcles and citations. I will soon either add citations to the very few that are still unsourced or just remove them if they are deemed non-notable. Either redirect List of NYU Polytechnic Institute people to List of NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering people or just delete List of NYU Polytechnic Institute people.--Widetimed (talk) 13:54, 8 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Comment The fact that the two articles differ in specific content does not alter the fact that they both cover the exact same topic. The content differences that have been introduced into the new article were disputed in the prior article, and it is that dispute that is the very reason that the prior article was protected. Creating a new article to introduce content that was disallowed in a prior article is tantamount to vandalism and should not be tolerated. WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 14:25, 8 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Comment That article was protected because it was and still is super crap. List of NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering people may have some non-notable alumni/faculty and you are more than welcome to remove them if you want. That crap article was protected because a sock was removing notable alumni/faculty and was inserting crap to vandalize it. In the cross-fire, a lot of notable alumni and faculty got deleted.--Widetimed^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 14:34, 8 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy delete per the G5 criterion - [1]. — PinkAmpers &^{(Je vous invite à me parler)} 15:05, 8 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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