Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/USA College binge drinking

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 merge to Alcohol consumption by youth in the United States. (non-admin closure) Tim Song (talk) 04:42, 24 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

USA College binge drinking[edit]

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It is a very poorly sourced article, from article history an attempt had been made to merge it but it was copy and pasted back by an editor. It is a very narrow topic which can be covered in articles such as short-term effects of alcohol or binge drinking if anybody ever wants to dig out references for such an article. It is not a global topic and I do not feel that it reaches notability for wikipedia. Literaturegeek | T@1k? 13:16, 15 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete, as being the nominator and per my comments above.--Literaturegeek | T@1k? 13:13, 15 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete There is an international article on Binge drinking: anything useful from this article could be merged there. jmcw (talk) 13:34, 15 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This AfD nomination was incomplete (missing step 3). It is listed now. DumbBOT (talk) 13:42, 17 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Possible keep The article is not very polished. However the topic itself, binge drinking by American college students, is certainly notable. It comes up a lot in the news media. There is no requirement that every WP article have a world-wide scope. Northwestgnome (talk) 14:30, 17 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Weak keep I agree with NWGnome that the sourcing and presentation needs to be polished, but the author has made an attempt to cite to reliable and verifiable sources and just hasn't got the ref/ref thing down. Binge drinking among college students is more of a problem now than it was a generation ago, for a number of reasons, and we have no article about it. Needless to say, its not confined to American colleges, and a title change from "USA College binge drinking" to something more encyclopedic, such as "Alcohol abuse in college", would be in order. Mandsford (talk) 17:43, 17 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. With a bit of cleanup, this could profitably be merged into the existing article Alcohol consumption by youth in the United States. The text has POV issues, seeming to accept the public-healthist viewpoint that the drinking habits of young people are an "evil" needing medico-legal "correction". But at minimum, it could be used to expand that article, and covers subjects that one only lightly touches on, so at minimum preserve this somewhere, like on that article's talk page, and redirect this to that one. - Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 17:57, 17 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I am not opposed to merging what is worth merging.--Literaturegeek | T@1k? 18:09, 17 December 2009 (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.