The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.
Largely unresearched neologism Loodog 03:27, 6 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. Michael 04:05, 6 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Merge useful info into College town, until enough is accumulated to make a decent article. It certainly is an important issue, but is referred to better in the second article. This article is just not well-bodied enough to stand on its own. For instance, it is all relative to one starting paper and one 'typical' set of examples. Shenme 05:58, 6 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep -- I find hundreds of Google hits for "studentification", and many or most of them appear to be on serious UK academic and local government sites. As far as I know, the word is largely unknown in the US, but it appears to have gained some genuine traction in UK urban planning. Kestenbaum 14:25, 6 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Studentification is a self-admitted neologism, and one reference surrounded by a miasma of original research. Interesting idea, but looks like a tempting depository for everybody's original research.
Followed up on Kestenbaum's google search, and found mostly similar articles to this one: people describing the phenomenon as they see it, but no serious research yet.--Loodog 14:59, 6 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. The term may be a neologism, but it's clearly been widely used in recent years. And it's complete nonsense to say there has not been any serious research, given the Brighton research that's mentioned in the very first paragraph of this article. I refer you also the fact that it has even been discussed in the house of commons. This is obviously a notable subject worth keeping. --David Edgar 16:13, 6 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Merge & redirect. While there may be some useful and new information in the article and the term may be new and gaining popularity, it doesn't seem distinct from College town or Town and gown. Therefore a merge seems in order, no reason to spread/replicate a single topic across multiple pages with different names just because different names are applied to (what appears to be) the same thing. DMacks 18:52, 6 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep It is distinct from town and gown, etc., because it refers specifically to the effect of the large number of students--generally as voters--on the area. It's important because this can greatly affect the political balance in a district, and is therefore the subject of media reporting. DGG 07:28, 7 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Merge Is a college town a residential-commercial area that sprouts up around a university or does a new university placed within a residential-commercial area drive studentification? Sounds like it's splitting hairs and should be merged into college town or town and gown.Madcoverboy
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