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edit- East Rutherford High School (North Carolina) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Article about a school, not properly referenced as passing WP:NSCHOOL. As always, schools are not automatically entitled to have Wikipedia articles just because they exist, and have to pass WP:ORG and WP:GNG on their sourceability -- but this is "referenced" solely to the school's own self-published website about itself, with absolutely no GNG-worthy coverage about it in independent third-party sources (media, books, etc.) shown at all. Bearcat (talk) 13:48, 25 December 2024 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Schools and North Carolina. Bearcat (talk) 13:48, 25 December 2024 (UTC)
- 2010 Duke University faux sex thesis controversy (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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I am nominating this article because I do not believe it meets notability guidelines.
Note that this article was previously deleted and then undeleted.
- WP:EVENT - this content has no enduring historical significance. This does not have widespread national or international impact. This is arguably routine in the sense of shock news/water cooler stories/viral phenomena.
- There are no lasting effects
- The geographical scope is limited to Duke
- The duration of coverage is limited to 2010 with one more article a few months later
- There is one NYTimes article surveying the person in question but the focus is on the aftermath rather than the event in question or even the controversy in question
- WP:NOTNEWS -
Wikipedia considers the enduring notability of persons and events. While news coverage can be useful source material for encyclopedic topics, most newsworthy events do not qualify for inclusion and Wikipedia is not written in news style."
- In the original AFD, the author wrote
This is not an article about the faux thesis, it's an article about the controversy that the faux thesis generated.
- However, after 10 years, I think it is fair to say that one of the responses to that is quite accurate
But most of the coverage was not commentary on the controversy (and "media discussion over routine privacy breaches" is also very routine and needs a fairly high standard to pass WP:NOT#NEWS. For example, is there evidence that any reliable sources have assessed this controversy within the field of "controversies over privacy" and concluding this is a significant one?). As a controversy, is this seen or will this be seen as a controversy of "enduring notability" (WP:NOT) that changed, shaped or defined the debate on privacy compared to a thousand other private communications that someone's friend posted to the world and went viral?
There are also WP:BLP considerations but I am more reluctant to specifically cite policy because this is not a biographical article. I invite others to do so if they are more confident on the matter. Transcendence (talk) 05:13, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Events, Sexuality and gender, Education, Internet, and North Carolina. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 06:12, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
- Delete Per nom, there's no indication there is lasting interest in this event, even at Duke. Campus controversies like this seem somewhat common at this point. I don't think it's even worth a mention at History of Duke University#Recent history: 1993–present, and it also seems undue weight to list at even Template:Duke University. Reywas92Talk 18:00, 23 December 2024 (UTC)