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Speedy deletion nomination of Sheffield Information Studies

A tag has been placed on Sheffield Information Studies requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about an organization or company, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, as well as our subject-specific notability guideline for organizations and companies. You may also wish to consider using a Wizard to help you create articles - see the Article Wizard.

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advice

As reviewing administrator, I did not delete the article, for there was an indication of importance. I try to help deal with challenges involving academic institutions--and I do know this subject area in particular--see my user page-- and I recognize the dept. as being very important, but in general we have almost never kept articles about individual academic departments unless they have risen to an extremely high standard of notability. You will probably need to show that it is of international notability, not merely highest in its field in the UK. (& it looks to me that in 2001 & 8 you ranked in the same level as at least one other institution) I'm not giving my own view here particularly (I might be prepared to argue we should be more inclusive for this, but this is not about to happen), just telling you what is likely to happen. Please see the previous discussion for an good department, [1]. Steps that might help would be

1. to write article on the other two listed faculty members. See WP:PROF for our standards for notability of academic faculty
2. To link to the actual RAE results
3. To link to any freely accessible versions of the references cited

I will keep track of what happens, but for further information, please ask me at my talk page or by email from the link there. DGG ( talk ) 21:27, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Alasdair Paterson

The article Alasdair Paterson has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

lacks significant coverage in 3rd party sources

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Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{dated prod}} will stop the Proposed Deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The Speedy Deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and Articles for Deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. RadioFan (talk) 11:53, 20 October 2009 (UTC)