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The result was delete. Liz Read! Talk! 03:37, 28 July 2023 (UTC)
University of Redwood
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This article is about (wait for it...) a website on a fictitious institution that cloned Reed College's website in 2011, possibly as a scam to collect application fees. Reed fought to have it taken down, generating some news coverage at the time, but there has been no enduring coverage post-2011, and this fundamentally fails WP:NOTNEWS/ WP:TYT. The only ATD would be redirecting to Reed, but I don't think it'd be due for a mention in the history section there, so I'd lean toward straight deletion. {{u| Sdkb}} talk 03:17, 21 July 2023 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Education and Websites. {{u| Sdkb}} talk 03:17, 21 July 2023 (UTC)
- Delete - seem inherrently lacking in notability (only notability is inherited from a real institution taking action against it) - and fundamentally it would be a terrible precedence if faked websites were considered notable. JMWt ( talk) 07:38, 21 July 2023 (UTC)
- Merge a few lines into
Reed College, the notable aspect of this story. —
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09:56, 21 July 2023 (UTC)
- Reed has a 115 years of (rather colorful) history to cover in
summary style in
its history section, so there's a high bar for inclusion. The section is currently heavily weighted toward early history, but even if it were balanced out to featured-quality weighting, I think a mention of this would stick out. When I was writing FA
Pomona College § History, which has a comparably old history, the sort of news event that warranted a one-line mention was a campus building getting bombed. If this had gone to the Supreme Court or something, that'd be one thing. But this? The college sent out a copyright infringement notice, and the media picked it up as an (at-that-time) novel use of the internet, but without any enduring coverage I don't see how it rises to the level of being
due for that section. {{u|
Sdkb}}
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14:40, 21 July 2023 (UTC)
- I will defer to your evaluation of the article in terms of merging. I don't have any particular attachment to the content per se, but it's one of those small things that could be folded into an article at some point, so I'd like to preserve history with an ATD. If you think it would be misleading to redirect to Reed College, we could possibly redirect to phishing or internet fraud, or redirect to Redwood (disambiguation) as a pointer to any of those? — siro χ o 21:31, 21 July 2023 (UTC)
- Reed has a 115 years of (rather colorful) history to cover in
summary style in
its history section, so there's a high bar for inclusion. The section is currently heavily weighted toward early history, but even if it were balanced out to featured-quality weighting, I think a mention of this would stick out. When I was writing FA
Pomona College § History, which has a comparably old history, the sort of news event that warranted a one-line mention was a campus building getting bombed. If this had gone to the Supreme Court or something, that'd be one thing. But this? The college sent out a copyright infringement notice, and the media picked it up as an (at-that-time) novel use of the internet, but without any enduring coverage I don't see how it rises to the level of being
due for that section. {{u|
Sdkb}}
talk
14:40, 21 July 2023 (UTC)
- Delete I am also against a merge to Reed College as this is essentially just WP:NOTNEWS - a barely notable event. I'd be convinced to sway my vote if there's any continuing coverage, though. SportingFlyer T· C 20:52, 21 July 2023 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. Necrothesp ( talk) 12:15, 25 July 2023 (UTC)
- Delete, WP:NOTNEWS — Grand'mere Eugene ( talk) 14:43, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
- Delete, WP:NOTNEWS. I don't see anything worth merging. It might have a possible home if anyone ever decides to create an article like List of education-related hoaxes. 4.37.252.50 ( talk) 23:06, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
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