Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Engineering college rankings in India

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The result was withdrawn by nominator. Nev1 (talk) 15:42, 3 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Engineering college rankings in India

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Have been pondering whether or not to put this to AfD. Article is well sourced, but this article can neither be called an article nor a list. Besides, since the sources do not follow any particular standard, it is open to a lot of personal analysis. TheMike •^{Leave me a message!} 12:25, 21 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

hmm.. its been a long time since I have checked this page- it sure is a mess. However previous versions like |this look much better and probably deserve a keep in my opinion
trakesht (talk) 04:43, 22 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

But then, such a revision would imply that the article will still remain a directory of sorts, in clear violation of WP:NOT. TheMike •^{Leave me a message!} 15:05, 23 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Questions I'm not sure about this. Are the sources, or rather the rankers, significant and does the ranking have notability like b-school rankings in the US do? --rgpk (comment) 16:36, 28 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, No. The most notable among the rankings are the India Today rankings and the Outlook rankings. Even in these, many colleges do not participate. This results in a ranking where, for example, Bangalore Institute of Technology ranks higher than something like College of Engineering, Guindy, which may be correct according to their survey, but in reality is incorrect for the most part. The criteria chosen for ranking by each publication is often different.

After seeing the US rankings article, it seems to me that a revision like what trakesht suggested would be appropriate. TheMike •^{Leave me a message!} 17:02, 28 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps a move to List of Indian engineering college rankings and a revision along the lines of what trakest suggests would work well given that both India Today as well as Outlook are important magazines. --rgpk (comment) 17:10, 28 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Withdraw. I decide to withdraw the nomination and rewrite the article on the lines of List_of_United_States_business_school_rankings. TheMike •^{Leave me a message!} 18:00, 2 March 2011 (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.