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The result was delete. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 23:40, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Decline of women in computer science in Canada[edit]

Procedural nom for IP editor: rationale from talk page :"This article should be deleted since it simply asserts that the number of women in computer science is decreasing, without given any numbers relating to this change--much less any citations. If it is true that this assertion is not supported by any evidence, of course it should be deleted. Otherwise, citations to the evidence or at least some un-cited statistics (showing a decline) should be given." I have no opinion at present. ascidian | talk-to-me 22:04, 25 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Merge to Women in computing and give more of a world focus and less focus on Canada. this subject is notable and has as chance of being improved. There are some references there with some numbers as well. --RadioFan (talk) 22:19, 25 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This is an odd article. In the first section, a number of statistics are given, and only one appears to show evidence of a decline; everything else shows evidence only of a gender imbalance, which is not really news to anyone. The references are an 11 year old article, a cache of a deleted UBC page, and a 12 year old article in "Communications of the ACM". I can't get the cached page to load, but neither of the other two articles make any mention of Canada. Finally, the last reference is a Statistics Canada publication, but it's about gender differences in learning new computer skills, not about school enrollment. Growing gender imbalance in computing is an interesting issue, which could be covered somewhere in Wikipedia. But not here: this is OR, and it's bad OR to boot. Hairhorn (talk) 22:34, 25 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Merge as above or rename to something like Women in computing in Canada. The title is a little too essayish for my taste, and the writing is WAY to essayish for my taste, but there is some good material here which may be useful in fleshing out the Women in computing article OR in establishing a split-off article specific to Canada. It would need some more stuff for a split article. There would need to be LOTS of OR removed from this article in either case, but there does seem to be a skeleton of some stuff here, with some proper rewriting and renaming or merging. So keep the good stuff, and dump the rest. --Jayron32.talk.contribs 02:10, 26 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete essay with weak and unrepresentative sourcing. The emphasis on the general background is explainable enough if it were copypasted from somewhere else. DGG (talk) 03:17, 28 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Although some parts of this might be salvageable as content for other articles, as written this is an essay, not an encyclopedia article. Bearcat (talk) 22:46, 28 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Not an encyclopedic subject and highly POV. Merge anything legitimate ASAP. ChildofMidnight (talk) 05:48, 29 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - this appears to be poorly-referenced original research/synthesis rather than an encyclopaedic article. That's not to say an encyclopaedic article couldn't be written on the subject, but this isn't it. Robofish (talk) 02:53, 1 June 2009 (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.