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This article had been nominated for merging with
Panjab University, Chandigarh. However, when I started to carry out the merge, I could find no reference to this Centre or any similarly named Centre at the target page. Checking the University's web page
http://puchd.ac.in/faculties.php I could also find no reference to such a Centre. The current page provides no independent sources, and I could not find any in a search. Even the website provided at the article is a dead link. So nothing in the article is verified. A Google search found a few mentions at non-reliable sources such as blogs, suggesting there may once have been such a department. If there ever was, it apparently no longer exists. Since nothing is verified and the proposed target page does not mention it, I believe a redirect/merge would be inappropriate. The Centre never was notable or verified, so WP:NOTTEMPORARY doesn't apply.
MelanieN (
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15:43, 8 September 2014 (UTC)reply
Thank you for the link to the essay. Lack of independent reliable sources is one thing; that might be excused. But a department of a university should at least be mentioned at the website of the university it is supposedly a part of! The university website I linked to above is quite comprehensive. It lists all of the departments and schools and centres and other subdivisions of the university. It does NOT list this centre. There is literally no evidence that such a department exists. So I believe it would be inappropriate to merge it; there is nothing verified to merge, and the university we would merge it to does not acknowledge its existence. --
MelanieN (
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17:02, 9 September 2014 (UTC)reply
Hmmm! You think "Department of Environment Studies" is a new name for this centre? That's possible - although I notice that the founder and director of the Center, Ravindra Kumar Kohli, is not a current faculty member in the Department.
[2] In any case, a redirect from the current title would be unhelpful and inappropriate. I suppose we could change the name of this article to "Department of Environment Studies, Panjab University" and then redirect. However, since most universities have a Department of Environment Studies, I don't really see the point of a redirect. This is not some noteworthy "Centre" but merely one of dozens of departments at the university, and a small one at that. --
MelanieN (
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18:07, 9 September 2014 (UTC)reply
I looked at the
history section, which is one paragraph long and is focused very broadly on the history and development of the entire university. Personally I think the short-term (maybe 10 years?) existence of a small, barely-sourced Centre (about which nothing is verified except that it did exist in 2008) is too trivial to mention in the history of a huge university like this. Others may feel differently. --
MelanieN (
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16:30, 11 September 2014 (UTC)reply
Another thought: rather than cluttering up the history, we could put "(formerly the Centre for Environmental and Vocational Studies)" after the listing for "Department of Environment Studies" in the list of departments. However, we have no evidence that the current department was once the Centre; as I noted above, the faculty is different. I still favor deletion, without a redirect, because of the lack of any verified information about the Centre, as well as nothing indicating a relationship to the current Department. --
MelanieN (
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16:35, 11 September 2014 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
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
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