Talk:List of ubiquitous computing research centers

This article was nominated for deletion on 2 August 2020. The result of the discussion was merge.

This page was proposed for deletion by an editor in the past.

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Not yet categorized, taken from main page:

Ubiquitous Dream Hall in Seoul, South Korea
MAYA Design Pervasive Computing Practice
Handheld Learning Forum Ubiquitous Computing in Education
CUbiC Center for Cognitive Ubiquitous Computing at Arizona State University

-- Semifreddo (talk) 22:27, 5 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion

I PROD'd this article and now it has been restored. My original concern was link farm for random computer science and electronic engineering groups. I intend to nominate the page at WP:AfD, but I will allow a good-faith pause to allow the page to be taken in an encyclopedic direction by others. Stuartyeates (talk) 09:40, 25 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I began an attempt at fixing by using the link to the lab/centre itself as a reference, instead of it being a linkfarm. I am only doing this for organizations that as a whole have their own Wikipedia article, or else I would not consider them to notable. So far I have done this for Australia only - I would hate to fix the whole article then have it deleted :-) Does this at least help turn it from being a linkfarm? (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 11:10, 25 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The problem, as I see it, is that almost all of these research centers really struggle for notability, which is the key criterion for inclusion in wikipedia. I see only three which have their own pages: Telecooperation Office, Mobile Life Centre and Topological Media Lab. If we keep the page I suggest that we purge all centres that don't have their own wiki page; but I'd settle for also keeping those that have their own page or have a section in their host institutions page that we can do a piped link to. Stuartyeates (talk) 18:53, 25 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Since the situation hasn't improved and no one has another plan to bring the page in line with policy I'll be actioning this shortly. Stuartyeates (talk) 09:16, 16 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

There was a conversation about this page on my talk page at User_talk:Stuartyeates#I.27d_rather_not.... Stuartyeates (talk) 19:41, 17 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

My point of view on this is that if we're claiming (as BWilkins appears to be) that the notability rests with the institutions that host these research groups then the list should be renamed List of universities with ubiquitous computing research centers. That would be quite a different kettle of fish (but still not notable to my eyes). Stuartyeates (talk) 19:41, 17 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I've gone ahead and trimmed it down to notable research centers. It's a strong candidate for deletion. --Ronz (talk) 21:42, 6 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]