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The result was merge to Columbia Asia. Lankiveil ^{(speak to me)} 00:14, 8 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Columbia Asia Medical Center - Puchong[edit]

fails WP:ORG, should only be really listed in Columbia Asia. Needs significant third party coverage to establish notability Michellecrisp (talk) 05:34, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy keep. Sourced article about large, verifiable medical institution serving a v large population catchment. --Gene_poole (talk) 06:04, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Serving a large catchment is not a criteria for notability, secondly this is a private hospital and not the main public public hospital serving the area. Michellecrisp (talk) 06:09, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: If you'd actually researched the subject prior to starting this AfD you would have discovered that as there is no government hospital in the Puchong district, this institution is in fact the only hospital available to the 300,000 people who live there. You would also have discovered that there are any number of citable sources available on the subject, thereby establishing that the article subject complies with WP:ORG, WP:NOTE and WP:V. --Gene_poole (talk) 10:26, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm amazed with your sudden interest in Malaysian hospitals. your google search only proves that a public hospital does not exist in Puchong, it does not prove meeting WP:ORG. A Google news search reveals nothing. A web search reveals mainly job ads for the medical centre and hardly any coverage. Fails WP:ORG on these 2 counts. If the depth of coverage is not substantial, then multiple independent sources should be cited to establish notability. Michellecrisp (talk) 12:23, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

In fact the main public hospital serving Puchong is the University Malaya Medical Centre, Puchong is in Petaling district where the hospital is located http://www.ummc.edu.my/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=912&Itemid=1229. Your claim of "this institution is in fact the only hospital available to the 300,000 people who live there" is wrong, all these people can visit University Malaya Medical Centre, So whilst there is not a public hospital in Puchong there is a major one in the district where Puchong is located. Michellecrisp (talk) 12:38, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

merge into the article for the company & rewrite that main article so it isn't so much like an advertisement. 06:31, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
Merge The reference in the article doesn't explicitly mention the Puchong hospital, just that Columbia Asia is opening some new hospitals. Columbia Asia isn't big enough to warrant spin-off articles yet. Matthewedwards (talk • contribs • email) 17:18, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy close and Merge as even the nom indicates, why are we at AfD? TravellingCari 21:56, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Merge and redirect to Columbia Asia. First of all, it needs to be noted that private hospitals have a significantly more important role in Malaysia than, for example, in the UK (I can't speak for Oz}, and should not be devalued because of being private. Having said that, I fully agree with TravellingCari that this is an example of an unnecessary AfD - such obvious merges should be dealt with by mergeto/mergefrom tags. TerriersFan (talk) 22:30, 2 November 2008 (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.