Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of members of council of Vilnius University

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The result was delete. Sandstein 19:30, 18 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

List of members of council of Vilnius University

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Lists of this sort are non-encyclopedic. WP is NOT A DIRECTORY DGG ( talk ) 10:16, 11 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 12:05, 11 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Education-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 12:05, 11 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lithuania-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 12:05, 11 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete, no merge to Vilnius University, nonencyclopedic detail.Staszek Lem (talk) 17:02, 11 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Non-notable list of academics. Ajf773 (talk) 18:48, 11 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Even prominent universities don't have pages listing their trustees or councils. Dorama285 19:00 10 February 2020 (UTC)
Keep. Actually, while it is true that Wikipedia is not a directory, WP:DIRECTORY says "Directories, directory entries, electronic program guides, or resources for conducting business", "For example, an article on a broadcaster should not list upcoming events, current promotions, current schedules, format clocks, etc.", and I do not see how any of that applies here. If it does, a case should be made more explicitly. As for notability, well, the article does cite a couple of news articles in national news web sites Delfi.lt, 15 min, Lithuanian National Radio and Television, they give the full list of the members of (then) newly chosen council. Thus those sources are reliable, secondary (not protocols of relevant meetings, that would be primary sources), independent of the object (neither of those web sites belong to the university), and they cover the subject (the list of members) in detail (that is, they list all those members). Thus the requirements in WP:Notability seem to be met. As for "Even prominent universities don't have pages listing their trustees or councils.", that might look counterintuitive, but maybe in this specific case those boards simply have no suitable sources, for some reason? Maybe the boards themselves are seen to have a less important role? Maybe the people in them are not seen as quite as prominent (in this case Ingrida Šimonytė was a former Finance minister, afterwards was second in presidential elections)? In conclusion, currently I do not see a valid reason for deletion... --Martynas Patasius (talk) 22:01, 11 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. Necrothesp (talk) 08:58, 12 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom by DGG, WP:NOTDIR, and as original research. This list is akin to having one for the List of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, both of which are quasi-government boards, but neither list is encyclopedic. Bearian (talk) 01:13, 18 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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