Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/OSU Open Source Lab

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Organization of dubious notability. No evidence of general notability or notability for organizations guidelines. Essentially an advertisement. --Animalparty! (talk) 03:39, 7 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - This is a department at a university. See here, stating "Oregon State University is giving its Open Source Lab a major promotion, moving it from a services role within the university into an academic department as part of the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. The switch will raise the Corvallis lab’s profile and involve dozens more students every year in a program that helped make Oregon a global hub for open source activity." Thus, I believe the proper section we should be looking at is Parts of schools and organizations, and if we are to follow the guidance there, the requirement for keeping this article is "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." So, has this lab made a significant contribution to its field? The article I linked would suggest that it quite possibly has. "For a time, its servers hosted the kernel for most influential open source project, the Linux operating system, and the lab continues to host about 75 others. The lab’s sponsors include IBM, Facebook and Google, which contributed $300,000 to the lab last year." here is a profile on the lab from linux.com. There's a couple more I found while Googling but the sources are dubious. In any case, I'm leaning towards weak keep pending further comments. VegaDark (talk) 05:26, 7 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]