Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/XF (grade)

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The result was merge‎ to Academic grading in the United States. Daniel (talk) 04:07, 29 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

XF (grade)

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Appears to be limited to a few universities with the exact terminology differing between them. Unclear how this warrants its own article. Note that Academic grading in the United States does not mention XF at all; that article says X actually refers to something else.

Internationally, Withdraw[n] Fail use different denotation, but moving and expanding is probably not necessary. This concept can be easily incorporated into each country's respective grading article. Anarchyte (talk) 09:59, 29 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Education-related deletion discussions. Anarchyte (talk) 09:59, 29 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
~~Delete -- I would prefer an AtD of merging~~ Merge into Academic grading in the United States as बिनोद थारू has provided enough secondary sources to support inclusion in the primary article. However, I still cannot see independent notability to keep a separate article. , but the article only has primary sources. Without RS, there is nothing here to merge. If anyone can find even one secondary source on this grade (I couldn't), I'll switch my !vote immediately. Cheers, Last1in (talk) 14:43, 29 November 2023 (UTC) Cheers, Last1in (talk) 01:55, 11 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Merge with Academic grading in the United States: independent, non-primary sources are required to establish notability, but for adding a line in a list on an existing article, the primary sources we have suffice. The grade itself isn't notable, but it's part of a notable system. Owen× ☎ 23:58, 29 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. Necrothesp (talk) 13:26, 5 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, _signed,Rosguill ^talk 05:08, 7 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per significant coverage in multiple independent reliable sources.

https://www.chronicle.com/article/kansas-community-college-cracks-down-on-cheaters-with-new-xf-grade-signifying-dishonesty/

The article states: "Barton County Community College has instituted a new honor system that would allow professors who catch a student cheating to be able to mar :the student’s transcript with a grade that indicates academic dishonesty.

Administrators and faculty members at the Kansas college decided on the policy in the wake of a string of cheating incidents that started last year. Professors can :now assign a grade of “XF” to students who are caught plagiarizing, cheating on a test, or in other ways violating the college’s academic-integrity policy."

https://books.google.com/books?id=2FceCwAAQBAJ, page 852.

The book states: "Students holding an XF grade will automatically be banned from representing the university, running for student organizations, or receiving university funds. XF grades can however be replaced with an ..."

https://books.google.com/books?id=f-GWBQAAQBAJ, page 73.

The book states: "XF grade which states that the student failed a class specifically because of Academic Dishonesty”. In order to act ... education about the institution policy, the guideline and action to be taken so that all teachers deal with the ..."

https://books.google.com/books?id=MqwrAQAAMAAJ, page 20.

The book states: "school is also considering adopting a grade of XF to indicate failure due to cheating ( Zernike , 2002 ) . Other schools , like the University of Maryland and Trinity College in Hartford , are requiring that their students sign an honor"

https://books.google.com/books?id=JZGgJSEQe, page 133.

The book states: "Development of a revised academic integrity policy, which includes the adoption of an XF grade (designed to distinguish failure resulting from violation of the ..."

https://books.google.com/books?id=URYL1BfAZRQC, page 427.

The book states: "Under Maryland's system, cheaters are not expelled but receive a special “XF” grade for a class if they are caught cheating. The grade, which means the student failed the course due to academic dishonesty ..."

https://books.google.com/books?id=-1B4AgAAQBAJ.

The book states: "... University of Maryland's policy of assigning a grade of “XF” in the course, the “X” indicating that the failure was due to academic dishonesty, which then becomes part of the student's permanent record. As Pavela (1997a) noted, [the “XF” ..."

There is sufficient coverage in reliable sources to allow XF to pass Wikipedia:Notability#General notability guideline, which requires "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject".
बिनोद थारू (talk) 00:40, 11 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: To review the sources proposed.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Daniel (talk) 10:32, 14 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Final relist. Should eager to see a review of newly found sources.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 19:11, 21 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Merge with Academic grading in the United States - I don't buy the argument that sources that explain that XF is a grade assigned for academic dishonesty, however many times it is said, provide significant coverage to write something encyclopaedic about the grade. It is not irrelevant, but there is not significant non trivial coverage here to write an encylopaedic article on the grade code itself. Academic dishonesty is a subject and so, it seems, is Academic grading in the United States. This information belongs in the latter, but should not be spun out from there. It might be worth a sentence in the former too. Thus merge is the right WP:ATD here. Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 20:00, 21 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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