Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Virginia Tech National Capital Region

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 delete. Almost entirely a copyvio from their website. We can not keep this, either in mainspace or as a draft. With respect to promotionalism, it is only a little more promotional than many university articles, most of which seem to be written by the PR staff--though a few are from alumni, usually over-enthusiastic alumni. Cleaning all these up will be a long business, but this article, particularly outrageous in both the promotionalism and the copyvio, is a good place to start. Reducing to a stub is an option for copyvio, but when its bad as here, it is better to start over. It would merit an article: major campus of large universities always are considered notable. DGG ( talk ) 17:04, 2 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Virginia Tech National Capital Region[edit]

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Promo failing WP:GNG. WP:TNT. Note creator has copyvios in other VT articles, unknown if this has one but tagging as such for checking. Widefox; talk 10:22, 2 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This important article should not be deleted. Thousands of students attend courses within the Virginia Tech National Capital Region. Recommend edits updating the article as needed.Huskers110110 (talk) 12:10, 2 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Cleanup Seems a legitimate campus of Virginia Tech. The actual article is a copyvio and spammy nightmare, but that can be fixed via normal editing and cleanup. --Jayron 32 12:16, 2 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

There's several of these articles based solely on primary sources, cleanup would remove the WP:BLUDGEON of sources but a stub with primaries still fails GNG. Draft seems preferable, especially considering user has created 10 articles, and is a 90% SPA. Widefox; talk 12:56, 2 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Reducing to a stub and moving to a draft space is also a good idea. --Jayron 32 13:00, 2 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Move to draft. Currently a load of promotional bullshit. It doesn't even say what it is about: is its subject a university? It should be removed from article space until it starts to resemble an encyclopedia article. Maproom (talk) 12:46, 2 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

My feeling too, and currently the 90% SPA promo account is not claiming a COI, so I'm resisting calling it what it appears to be. Underneath the promo, there may be a notable topic, and Draft would separate wheat from chaff. Widefox; talk 12:51, 2 November 2015 (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.