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The result was Delete Non-notable program --Step hen 23:30, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Georgia Tech Freshman Experience

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WP:N. Most WP:RS point to its existence at best, but not actually indicating notability. In addition, using their own university newspaper for the majority of its citations is also questionable as of WP:RS. Talk page indicated and suggested that further notability and citations from outside sources be added, but no further action taken. WT:UNI indicated that this article would be AfDed. - Jameson L. Tai ^{talk ♦ contribs} 08:12, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Fails general notability guidelines because there are no secondary sources that are independent of the university which this program resides at. Also, content is not verifiable due to the lack of reliable sources in the article or found elsewhere. There are programs like this at every university and this one will never be notable.—Noetic Sage 16:34, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been added to the list of university deletions. —Noetic Sage 16:33, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete, we are not a directory of internal university programs. It would have to be shown that this one was considered notable by being studied or copied by other schools, for example. --Dhartung | Talk 20:17, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Although I think there's waaay to much information about the dormitories, it's a legitimate article about one university's program to lower the dropout and transfer rate of new students, through a combination of mentoring and special accomodations and rules for incoming freshmen. I think it would be preferable if this were merged into an article about the approaches made by universities and colleges to prevent freshman attrition. Mandsford (talk) 22:18, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Trim and Merge info into main article on Georgia Tech, if it's not already there. --Midnightdreary (talk) 00:23, 23 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Routine university program with no external RSs for notability. It would take something really special along these lines to be worth an article--or get much public notice outside the university. Putting Freshman in a separate dormitory has been routine in half the colleges in the US for a hundred years or more. Assigning them residence advisors is routine in essentially every college. DGG (talk) 06:39, 23 February 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.