Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Student number

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The result of the debate was keep. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 01:23, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Student number

Tagged as {unencyclopedic} since 12:37, 18 Mar 2005 UTC. Zzyzx11 22:27, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

• Redirect to Identity document. Gazpacho 22:39, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• I'm not sure identity document is the best place for this. After all, a student number is not a document. I'd suggest redirecting to university, perhaps? Or do we have an article entitled transcript (or similar)? I'd support a reasonable redirect, otherwise, keep at least temporarily. Exploding Boy 23:24, Apr 6, 2005 (UTC)
• Transcript exists, but it's not about this. In addition, I'm not sure about elsewhere, but in the U.S., the student number is separate from the transcript--it simply serves as an identifier for the school. Do we have an article on identification number or something of that nature? Redirect there, or to identity document if nothing better is found. Meelar (talk) 01:13, Apr 7, 2005 (UTC)
• I think , while this is a stub, it's a reasonable one. I vote keep unless a suitable merge place can be found, in which case it should be merged and redirected. Mgm|^(talk) 08:11, Apr 7, 2005 (UTC)
• Merge per Meelar. Radiant_* 08:45, Apr 7, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep as potentially encyclopedic. See the page's equivalent in the German Wikipedia at de:Matrikelnummer. Martg76 09:02, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. There is no information as to which university or even which country this is about. I am sure there are many systems, but what is the big deal anyway? People get various kinds of registration numbers everywhere in modern society - it's a consequence of handling large numbers of people or any other items in databases, and it's trivial. / Uppland 09:11, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• In that case, perhaps we need an article called Registration number. Exploding Boy 16:42, Apr 7, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Universities assign student identification numbers to students and I do believe it is possible to write an article about how this is done. Q0 20:51, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Speaks to the commodification of people in our society. My university used to use Social Security numbers, but too many people complained that the numbers were too readily acquired by potential identity thieves, so they changed to a different student number format. Apparently, this is happening throughout the state. -- 8^D ^gab 02:53, 2005 Apr 11 (UTC)
• Keep due to lack of good merge targets. Burgundavia 07:11, Apr 11, 2005 (UTC)
• Comment: What is the significant difference between a "student number" and, say, a "public library user number" or an "employee number"? This article either has to be more generic and speak of registration of people in general, or more specific and limit itself to one specific university (system). At the moment it only contains stuff on the Matrikelnummer used at Austrian universities, so why not change the title to Matrikelnummer (Austrian universities)? / Uppland 07:18, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Keep now as a useful example of student numbers in use. Hopefully will grow to include other examples. Kappa 09:55, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

• Keep Seems a good idea to me... Have examped with some uk info --Spankthecrumpet 22:52, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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