Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Okanagan Campus, University of British Columbia

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The result was keep. No arguments for deletion aside from the nom. (non-admin closure) Ivecos (t) 17:26, 28 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Okanagan Campus, University of British Columbia

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This article violate WP:PRIMARY SOURCES and WP:NOTABILITY. As far as I know, many university have more then one campus if we don't create specific page for every campus then why British Columbia will be treated differently. Neither its a residential college nor a independent university. I really don't see any reoson to keep it Ominictionary (talk) 14:06, 19 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Education-related deletion discussions. Ivecos (t) 18:15, 23 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of British Columbia-related deletion discussions. Ivecos (t) 18:15, 23 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The deletion proposer says it is not a residential college, yet their website has images and info about their residences: http://okanagan.housing.ubc.ca Canuckle (talk) 00:25, 26 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. I don't understand what the nominator thinks our notability standards for educational institutions are. They're not based on whether the school is "residential" or not, and they don't require an institution to be fully independent. We do not necessarily deprecate writing separate articles about different campuses of a single institution in all cases — University of Ontario Institute of Technology, for example, would be a case where we don't require separate articles for each individual campus, because both campuses are in the same city and there's really nothing that can really be said about either campus as a distinct topic from the other beyond their physical locations. But in the case of University of Toronto Mississauga, we do have a standalone article about the Mississauga campus as a separate topic from the Downtown Toronto campus, because it has a lot that can be said about it and the parent institution is such a large, potentially overwhelming topic that it needs to be split up for size management purposes — if everything that could possibly be said about U of T were combined into a single article, it would be the size of several Don DeLillo novels put together. And UBC has the same problem — it's right up there with U of T and McGill in Canada's Ivy League — so its distinct campuses are a logical and valid splitpoint for getting some of the content out of the parent article. Yes, the article needs referencing improvement — but this campus has a considerable amount of content that can be written about it as a distinct topic from the parent institution, and we do not have any blanket rule against separate articles about satellite campuses of educational institutions. Bearcat (talk) 00:37, 27 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, MBisanz ^talk 02:27, 27 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy Keep - obvious notability as a major postsecondary institution with a clear geographical distinction from UBC Vancouver. See also:

every "University of [State] at [Town] article
separate articles for Université du Québec à [town]
University of Alberta Augustana Faculty and University of Alberta Campus Saint-Jean

Madg2011 (talk) 03:04, 27 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Large post-secondary institution. The only reason it would not be notable would be because it's a satellite campus, despite this satellite campus being bigger than most post-secondary institutions. Acebulf (talk) 05:20, 27 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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.