Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Higher education timeline

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The result was delete. MBisanz ^talk 00:16, 22 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Higher education timeline

Indiscriminate collection of information. Possibly just a replication of another list that already exists on Wikipedia. Madcoverboy (talk) 21:13, 16 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Education-related deletion discussions. -- Madcoverboy (talk) 21:13, 16 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. -- Madcoverboy (talk) 21:14, 16 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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Keep - I don't see anything indiscriminate about this list. Sure it needs sourcing and other work but that is an editorial matter. If it duplicates another list then they can be merged. TerriersFan (talk) 21:33, 16 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment This isn't really a "timeline" (where there is a relationship between any of the events), but a list of dates that selected universities were founded. Schools that date from the 15th Century and earlier are well described on List of oldest universities in continuous operation. The rest of the list is an editor's selection of a small fraction of the many institutions that were created in the later years. Given that there are thousands of universities around the world, trying to arrange them in chronological order would be a difficult task. Mandsford (talk) 13:13, 17 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - The list is too incomplete to make a useful article. The alternatives might be to rename to List of Universities by date of foundation, or to merge with List of oldest universities in continuous operation. CErtainly, we cannot keep this article. Peterkingiron (talk) 23:23, 17 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Incomplete is a reason for adding the others. Not the least indiscriminate, since it lists those that have Wikipedia articles (though many of the links need fixing or adding, and a few thousand need adding). Too long does not apply. We are not paper--though we might want to make subarticles as we get closer to completion. No job is too large, considering the number of editors. We probably have many thousands of active editors at universities, and they just need to add theirs. Or one of them can write a bot. I agree that it should be retitled, & we can discuss that. DGG (talk) 23:48, 17 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per WP:NOT's rules on indiscriminate lists. It's just a list of trivia with no way to salvage it to make it an actual encyclopedia article. DreamGuy (talk) 22:23, 20 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per DreamGuy. Further, such a list seems odd since higher education institutions from different places/cultures do not necessarily share a connection in terms of development/historical context/standard of inclusion. It's a bit too broad of a topic to be of any use. Even if such a list were made complete it would be so large that it would be too difficult to navigate. A more useful list would be a timeline of higher education within a specific culture or geographical area. Nrswanson (talk) 10:18, 21 March 2009 (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.