Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Washington University Department of Biomedical Engineering

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. Sr 13 00:53, 18 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Washington University Department of Biomedical Engineering[edit]

There isn't much of an assertion of notability and I'm having trouble finding specific guidance on whether any particular department can "inherit" notability from the institution of which it is part. I can't find any independent sources about this department that are not trivial listings (which IMHO includes a U.S. News ranking of programs). In general I don't believe that departments at universities should be able to take notability their stake of notability from the university (I think the farthest it should stretch is to schools within the university). Also, this article is practically a directory listing with a few tidbits of information about the department in general. Cquan ^{(after the beep...)} 00:11, 13 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

delete looks like a faculty directory to me. delete per WP:NOT specifically, wikipedia is not a directory. Barsportsunlimited 00:23, 13 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Absent a showing of particular notability for a department, I'm not in favor of spinning them off. Washington University can have this kind of information on their own webpages. FrozenPurpleCube 01:22, 13 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. As an alumnus of the university (though uninvolved with this particular department), I agree with FrozenPurpleCube with regard to articles on individual departments. Deor 01:30, 13 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete or Merge with University article. However this material is very POV and someone should probably look at the website to see if this is a copyright issue. JodyB_talk 02:29, 13 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletions. -- John Vandenberg 02:09, 13 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Missouri-related deletions. -- John Vandenberg 02:10, 13 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete -- University departments can be notable themselves because of their histories, their importance, and the presence of reliable sources. (For instance, important histories of the departments of music at Columbia, Princeton, and Harvard have all been written; I would guess the like has been done for the Cambridge mathematics department, University of Chicago Economics department, etc.) However, I don't think departments are generally notable without these arguments, and a list of current faculty in a department founded in 1997 does not qualify. -- Myke Cuthbert (talk) 03:08, 13 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete The material is not written in a neutral tone and should be deleted since it dosen't establish notability. --_Hdt83 ^Chat 04:02, 13 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I shudder to think of what would happen if every dept. could have its own page. Nothing esp. notable here. JJL 13:51, 13 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per all. semper fictilis 20:04, 13 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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