Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Autonomous Systems Laboratory

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 Delete. Tikiwont (talk) 11:56, 15 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Autonomous Systems Laboratory[edit]

Non-notable organization - very few hits on Google, no incoming links, not even mentioned in parent school except for an external link. Jiuguang Wang (talk) 23:55, 3 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Well... I personally had never heard about it. Still a Google search of "Autonomous Systems Laboratory"+Porto gets 251 hits. I is mentioned and presented in the parent organization and its site (www.lsa.isep.ipp.pt) does aknowledge that parent school (www.isep.ipp.pt). Again... I have no strong feelings about this, I just thought that a speedy deletion was excessive, and one should hear your rationale. The Ogre (talk) 14:20, 4 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

And it does have an article in the Portuguese language wikipedia. The Ogre (talk) 14:22, 4 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Most results within those 251 hits were 1) the lab website itself, 2) external links to the lab (from conferences, for example), and 3) within publications of people associated with the lab. There are no reliable and widespread coverage of the lab itself from third parties (the parent school doesn't count), like you would find for JPL. I have no problem with articles on research labs, like MIT CSAIL or JPL, but if all non-notable labs get a page, then we would be dealing with hundreds of thousands of self-advertising pages.

As for the Portuguese article, I tried Google for Laboratório Sistemas Autónomos, and the results doesn't look all that promising, neither. --Jiuguang Wang (talk) 14:49, 4 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ok. Deleted them. Cheers! The Ogre (talk) 15:38, 4 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Portugal-related deletion discussions. -- Fabrictramp | talk to me 19:04, 5 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions. -- Fabrictramp | talk to me 19:04, 5 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Labcruft, nothing notable about this particular lab within a Portuguese higher education institution. Hús ö nd 00:37, 6 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Fabrictramp | talk to me 21:37, 10 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

delete sub-departmental academic unit of no eternal historical notability. Pete.Hurd (talk) 21:41, 10 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Not notable. There are thousands of non totable labs like that on Univerities all over the world. If it is not deleted, it should be merged on Porto Polytechnic Institute. Tosqueira (talk) 21:36, 11 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete and mention in the article for the institute. The standard for these labs is appropriately much higher than this. DGG (talk) 06:33, 15 July 2008 (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.