Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lists of universities in Ireland

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 speedy keep. "Orphaned article" is not a valid reason for deletion, (non-admin closure) –Davey2010 • (talk) 01:24, 22 July 2014 (UTC)

Lists of universities in Ireland

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Orphaned article - nothing links here so there is not much point having a list of lists like this. Gbawden (talk) 14:20, 14 July 2014 (UTC)

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ireland-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:36, 15 July 2014 (UTC)

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Northern Ireland-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:36, 15 July 2014 (UTC)

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:36, 15 July 2014 (UTC)

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:36, 15 July 2014 (UTC)

• Keep, offers guidance to readers who may be looking for either of the two listed lists, because List of universities in Ireland, a likely search term, redirects here. @Gbawden:, don't nominate any more articles just because they're orphaned. That's not a valid deletion rationale. postdlf (talk) 00:17, 16 July 2014 (UTC)
• Keep: we have thousands of orphaned articles, the community decided a long time ago that deletion is not the appropriate action to take for the poor things. As it stands this article is functioning sort of as a disambiguation page for "List of Universities in Ireland", which would be an appropriate disambiguation page, and disambiguation pages normally should be orphaned anyways.AioftheStorm (talk) 02:21, 16 July 2014 (UTC)
• If I search for Universities in Ireland it takes me to List of higher education institutions in the Republic of Ireland. Do we change this redirect page to Lists of universities in Ireland? Gbawden (talk)
  • It makes sense that Universities in Ireland should have the same target as List of universities in Ireland. postdlf (talk) 14:20, 18 July 2014 (UTC)

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.