Talk:Park Point at RIT

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[edit] Notability

I fail to see the notability of this article. From what I understand, this is a general commercial property that is indirectly related to Rochester Institute of Technology and is marketed to students of Rochester Institute of Technology, but as the article itself states, it is not RIT student campus housing. Because of this, the notability of this article is no longer present. In addition, this article relies upon {{onesource}} and lacks any credible importance. Perhaps when notability is fully established in 2008 when the project completes, this article may be reposted. - Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ contribs 00:09, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

I disagree. I've added a few extra references. I do not understand your reasoning for lack of notability of this article. I would say that any $72 million dollar project is well notable for an article. --Dan LeveilleTALK 05:05, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
Yes, that's a large sum of money, but you're talking about a large development, not just one building. That picture with a pile of dirt next to a few houses didn't help me form a good impression either. Look, if this is officially a RIT project, then please say so. If it isn't, then I'd think this article is just mooching off of the notability of RIT in order to establish the article. If I'm wrong and this is in fact a piece of RIT, let me know and I'll add this article as a stub and file it under WikiProject Universities. Florida Tech is in the middle of a $75+ million expansion as well, which is in fact listed in the article, but I mean their expansion is inside the main campus. The way this article's describing it is as if it is off-campus and a private developer is stepping in to design a mini-niche marketed towards students. That's not notable. If you consider that as notable, then every single corporate development next to or around universities and colleges all around the world would have automatic rights to post their 2 cents on their development.
But, notable or not, Merry Christmas! :-) - Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ contribs 05:47, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
It's hard to say, many people are unsure of how much RIT has a say in it, because it's being leased and developed by another company. But it was a decision by RIT to create it, and they leased it to Wilmorite to develop it. It is on RIT's campus. I'll add the wiki project to it. --Dan LeveilleTALK 06:00, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

Even as an RIT student I don't think this is important enough for its own page. 146.243.4.157 (talk) 14:42, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

It's a 72 million dollar project that's going to be a big part of Henrietta. Other colleges will studying its success to do a similar establishment. What makes you think it doesn't have notability? --Dan LeveilleTALK 18:35, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
I have nothing against this project, but $72m simply isn't that large a sum of money when it comes to things like commercial construction, you can't compare things like this to your own paycheck. I think it's a great project that I hope is sucessful not only for RIT (the corporation) and Wilmorite, but for RIT's (the university) students. With that being said, this isn't a noteworthy article for something with such a large scope as Wikipedia. Cost or revenue in-and-of itself simply isn't encyclopedic; everyone checks their peers/competitions before taking on a project like this, but come on, this development isn't the first of it's kind in the world or something like that. Perhaps once construction is finished, Park Point will gain noteworthyness, see Ithaca Commons for instance, but really at this stage it would have been best served as a sub-section in RIT or Henrietta's articles only, instead of as a stub article. Wikipedia is not paper, but it does have standards. Best of luck to those involved with Park Point, but please take a little more time before creating articles. Mullaneywt (talk) 01:42, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
This is most certainly a commercial project no different than any strip mall or other shopping center elsewhere in the area. Therefore, Park Point isn't noteable at this time. Please see WP:N#TEMP, specifically: However, articles should not be written based on speculation that the topic may receive additional coverage in the future. Because of this, I am renominating this page as non-notable. If you wish to change that, please go through the appropriate procedure (a vote) via the discussion page, and do not remove the tag without first completing this procedure. Bcb375 (talk) 02:04, 9 June 2008 (UTC)