- 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.
The result was keep. (non-admin closure) DavidLeighEllis (talk) 01:33, 25 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Alcohol use among college students (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log · Stats)
- (Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL)
This is simply WP:OR. Mrfrobinson (talk) 17:47, 18 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Wine-related deletion discussions. Human3015TALK 17:58, 18 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. Human3015TALK 18:02, 18 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Kitfoxxe, I agree that this is blatant WP:OR, but that alone is not sufficient grounds for deletion when notability has been established by reliable sources (see my comments above and WP:DEL-REASON). Rather, it just means we need to improve the article. -- Notecardforfree (talk) 23:34, 18 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- At the very least we need to change the opening sentence. Kitfoxxe (talk) 11:49, 19 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Changed vote to Keep. Topic is notable and important.Kitfoxxe (talk) 16:03, 20 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep I don't particularly disagree that this is a really poor article, especially at the beginning, but I'm not seeing grounds for deletion. I wouldn't say this is original research, though WP:SYNTH may well be relevant. But we're here to discuss the topic of the article. As such, inclusion guidelines concern whether it's encyclopedic, whether it can be verified from reliable sources, and whether it's notable. These are properties of the topic, not the article as presented. I'm no academic, but I guarantee that any editor here, can, in 5 minutes, come up with books, journal articles, and extensive media coverage of alcohol use among college students and its broad societal implications. Someone should post the appropriate flags to the article to improve its substance, but the topic clearly merits inclusion. --69.204.153.39 (talk) 02:53, 20 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- WP:SYNTH is part of WP:OR. The vary nature of the topic is original research/SYNTH.Mrfrobinson (talk) 17:07, 20 October 2015 (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.