Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/University of Toronto Department of Computer Science

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The result was delete. Daniel (talk) 21:57, 27 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

University of Toronto Department of Computer Science[edit]

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Non-notable academic department at the University of Toronto. Note WP:SCHOOLOUTCOMES which isn't technically a policy but might as well be that "Faculties, departments or degree programs within a university, college, or school are generally not considered notable unless they have made significant contributions to their field". The Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto is not very important aside from being the first department to offer a computer science doctorate in Canada and having strong university rankings for what seems to be their undergraduate program. I'm not detecting it being especially important in the field of computer science; just above average. Going on the WP:NORG criteria, almost all of the sources in the article are affiliated with the University of Toronto and fail the independent criteria, including the full book-length paean commissioned by the university to chronicle its mathematics department. The Scott Campbell source was written by a professor who works at the University of Toronto, and only briefly mentions the Department of Computer Science itself. Likewise for the Atkinson source and the source about Magen, both of which are obituaries that only briefly mention the department itself. The few ranking sources are WP:ROUTINE coverage and are not significant, being rote listings. Chess (talk) (please use {{reply to|Chess}} on reply) 19:56, 18 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. Chess (talk) (please use {{reply to|Chess}} on reply) 19:56, 18 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. Chess (talk) (please use {{reply to|Chess}} on reply) 19:56, 18 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Ontario-related deletion discussions. Chess (talk) (please use {{reply to|Chess}} on reply) 19:56, 18 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Comment U of T is known for their medical program, among many others. It's not the "premier" school for computer science in Canada, is just chugs along as would any other department. Oaktree b (talk) 20:19, 18 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@Oaktree b: I might nominate the rest of the articles in Category:Computer science departments in Canada for deletion as well if this ends as delete. If U of T's dept doesn't make the cut I doubt any of the rest will. Chess (talk) (please use {{reply to|Chess}} on reply) 20:22, 18 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

It was established in the 50s/60's, then goes into the 70's, then the article goes to 2002. Nothing terribly notable seems to have happened there over the years and I can't find any pioneers in the field from this program. Not to say it's a bad program, just not notable for our case. Oaktree b (talk) 20:28, 18 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Notable people can be part of the list of the university's notable people, the information about divisions can probably found in the department's website by those interested, and it seems to lack notable events. Possibly this article's subject's faculty could be expanded with this article's contents. Santacruz ⁂ Please tag me! 00:58, 23 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Object This department is consistently ranked as one of the top ten CS departments in the world, and is especially noted for world leading research, including many key developments in Human-Computer Interaction in the 1970s and 1980s, and Computer Graphics more recently (through the Dynamic Graphics Project). It's also where much of the current research on Machine Learning was pioneered, through the work of Geoff Hinton (the "father of deep learning"). I would argue it should be tagged for improvement, rather than deletion.Steve Easterbrook (talk) 18:27, 24 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Merge and redirect into the University of Toronto. None of the sourcing convinces me this school should have its own article. Missvain (talk) 20:32, 24 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. There is no indication that this particular department has received enough independent coverage to meet WP:GNG or WP:NORG. Also, a redirect seems unnecessary because the article University of Toronto only mentions this department a single time, and that particular mention ("Within the Faculty of Arts and Science, notable departments include the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Mathematics") might not even be worth keeping in that article if this article no longer exists. --Zander251 (talk) 06:50, 27 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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