Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lawrence Bragg Medal and Prize

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The result was delete and redirect to Institute of Physics#Awards. Sandstein 06:57, 18 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Lawrence Bragg Medal and Prize

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Minor non-notable award. Of the current version's 19 sources, most are not independent, being either from the Institute of Physics own website or press releases from institutions of awardees. Solely references 3, 11, 13, 17, and 18 are somewhat independent, but all are only in-passing mentions (and most are mentions of the award in obituaries of former awardees). Note that the IoP has a huge number of awards (43 if I counted correctly), with no less than 5 in the category "education", of which this is only one. No evidence that this meets WP:GNG, hence: Delete. Randykitty (talk) 13:10, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Education-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 14:01, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 22:25, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete, unenthusiastically. Not the kind of article I would normally hasten to prune, but the sourcing here really isn't great, and mostly consists of institutional publications being pleased about faculty achievements. The IoP prizes are notable and important in the aggregate, but for most of the individual prizes (excluding the Dirac medal and a couple of others) I think we would struggle to establish sufficient standalone coverage. - On a side note, Institute of Physics now has three dozen circular redirects, which probably ought to be straightened out. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 22:41, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect - I'm the creator of this article, but after careful searching online those are the best references I could find, so I'm happy to concede this particular award is not sufficiently notable for it's own article. On a side note, which would also handle the various circular redirects on the main Insitute of Physics article too, I propose the IOP awards overall have their own spin-off article. This would also stop the main article getting too long. And just keep the very limited number of notable awards with their separate pages too. Kj cheetham (talk) 12:21, 13 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I've added another couple of refs in any case, but they aren't really significant. Kj cheetham (talk) 19:23, 14 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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