Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/BNSD Inter College

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The result was no consensus‎. WP:NPASR applies. ✗plicit 00:19, 8 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

BNSD Inter College[edit]

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Previous declined prod. Whilst it has some notable alumni, could not find significant coverage to meet WP:NSCHOOL. LibStar (talk) 22:21, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Education, Schools, and Uttar Pradesh. LibStar (talk) 22:21, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. If a school/college has one notable alumni it probably doesn't lend much weight to notability. If on the other hand there are a few it suggests the institution may be notable. This one is located centrally to one of the major Indian cities, Kanpur and has been established for 85 years, perhaps making notability more likely than a newer establishment out in the suburbs. Older Indian newspaper sources are not easy to come by online, so it's hard to evaluate whether or not this college was notable in the past, when it may not appear to be so today. Rupples (talk) 19:49, 18 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Weak keep. I've been commenting/!voting on a few schools' AfDs recently and this one has been the hardest to come to a recommendation. Sources don't have much depth. This college has notability given its connections, but at the same time notability is not inherited. The institution seems to have a kind of "faded glory", in that it was likely notable 50 or 60 years ago, but isn't so much now. For that reason, I don't think it fits well in the only appropriate locality, Kanpur#Education because nowadays it's one of many such colleges in a city of over 2 million people. There's not an article on its immediate locality of Chunniganj, to which I I would have recommended a merge/redirect. As I can't see an AtD, the stark choice is keep or delete and to me it's somewhat illogical for this to have no mention on Wikipedia because of a lack of AtD, when it seems more notable than others which have redirects. Also, I suspect but can't prove, the college would be referenced in offline sources such as Kanpur newspapers from the 1930s to 1970s and other publications, maybe in Hindi, available in local public libraries. Rupples (talk) 20:40, 20 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:14, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Extraordinary Writ (talk) 23:49, 31 January 2024 (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.