Talk:Badin Hall (University of Notre Dame)
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started page, needs expanding Phydend 03:58, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Merge
It is nice that all the ND dorms have articles, but I think that it is a bad precedent; some of them deserve articles, some don't. I think the non-notable ones (like this one) should be merged down to a List of Female Dorms at Notre Dame and List of Male Dorms at Notre Dame, which would of course also have links to the other articles. The list would summarize the basic info - year built, size, famous residents, who it is named after. I would advocate leaving out all the trivia - house mascot, who the rector is, the annual house party - as unnecessary for an encyclopedia. My motivation for this is that if ND has articles on its dorms, EVERY college will want dorm articles, and... does Wikipedia really want articles on "Wilson Hall (Nowhere State University)" talking about their annual weinie roast? I don't think so. The ND dorm articles were actually raised as an issue in an AFD I made on a dorm at Penn State. --Brianyoumans 19:25, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
- Agreed I started many of the dorm articles for completeness (mostly when I was just starting to edit wikipedia and thought that the encyclopedia should include everything), but some of them have just become a place for people to put themselves in as famous residents, while others, for example Badin here, have only been edited one time when I started the articles. So the two proposed articles sound like a good idea, and the few notable dorms (which will have their own articles still) should be listed in them with a link to their article. Just my opinion. Phydend 00:41, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
- Excellent! I will wait a few days and see if anyone else responds. --Brianyoumans 00:53, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
