Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies
I love http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter_Wall_Institute_for_Advanced_Studies&curid=17642941&diff=215894208&oldid=215431489 this edit summary, by the way, as though GreenJoe were doing something for his betrothed; yes, talk about |pointy.  Anyhow, as we're here, and as the article's creator and author, beyond that I think that this constitutes an interesting case about notability (the accusation that the article is POV is risible).  There is a shortage of third-party sources about this institute.  There is plenty of information about it from UBC itself, and it is an important part of UBC: a part about which it is understandably proud.  It is certainly more important than (say) College for Interdisciplinary Studies, UBC Debating Society, or Engineering Undergraduate Society of the University of British Columbia; it is probably on a par with Liu Institute for Global Issues or Green College, University of British Columbia.  Yes, yes, I know: .  But let me make one more comparison, to an article with which I am familiar.  GNWC, a bright new start-up affiliated (in fairly murky ways) with the university, has achieved multiple third-party references.  But that's because they issue a press release whenever someone moves a paper-clip in their offices; as far as I can tell, fully a third of their staff have jobs related in some way to promotion.  The PWIAS, so far as I can tell, has yet to release a single press release over the entire course of its existence.  How then to judge the place's notability?  Well, look http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter_Wall_Institute_for_Advanced_Studies&curid=17642941&diff=215894208&oldid=215431489 at this list of books generated in large part thanks to the institute.  It's not exactly a third-party source as per the terms of .  But it does, I think, demonstrate the Institute's quiet notability
— User:Jbmurray, 06:15, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
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