Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Delta chapter of Alpha Phi Omega

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was DELETE. As if anyone would care, Finnish (and I suspect, most non-Merkin) universities don't have fraternities or sororities. I was a member of a subject organisation of computer science, though. — JIP | Talk 18:43, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Delta chapter of Alpha Phi Omega

Non-notable local chapter of national organization. tregoweth 01:42, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

• Comment: Fellow brothers they are trying to delete our chapter Wiki entries under the belief that they are non-notable. if you wish to also join in on the good fight please come post in the Alpha Epsilon Zeta Chapter of Alpha Phi Omega entry. i am trying my best to defend our ideals by defending our chapter wiki's, i am doing this in hopes that it will help defend our organization's ideals and principles and spread our message of friendship, leadership, and service. by no means Tregoweth take this as something hostile, i am a firm believer in talking things out and dealing with things in a calm manner. i am doing this in the hopes to pursuade you in letting our chapter wiki's stay. besides i know just from hitting the random article link that there are better fish to fry out there. thanks for your time.Butterbean04 02:39, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. National fraternities are notable; local chapters are not.--Isotope23 02:40, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per nomination. I wholeheartedly support the existence of an article about the national Alpha Phi Omega but not articles about the individual chapters. Student organizations that exist at only a single school (i.e. fraternity chapters) are generally non-notable. --Metropolitan90 04:00, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
• May I ask on what basis are articles about these chapters being deleted ? To which fraternity do the delete voters belong ? Is the nomination (are the nominations) being made from an NPOV ? --SockpuppetSamuelson 12:44, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

• I, for one, don't belong to any fraternity. — ceejayoz ^talk 19:34, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete with prejudice. Non-notable fratcruft. Paul 16:23, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. These individual chapters are obviously unique enough to warrant articles separate from Alpha Phi Omega. Unfocused 17:39, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per nomination. — ceejayoz ^talk 19:34, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per Isotope23. And for the record, I was never a member of any fraternity. --howcheng [ talk • contribs • web ] 20:33, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete all the chapters. StarryEyes 23:41, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. As usual, no fratcruft required. Wikipedia is not a free_host or webspace provider, and that's what's here.
• Keep. Not all chapters have their own entries - only notable ones. Being that Alpha Phi Omega is not a traditional fraternity (in the Animal House image) - it's a service fraternity - many of the chapters that are notable have made a great impact on their campuses and communities. Delta, for instance (referenced here) cared for the university's mascot for 40 years, and erected many significant monuments on Auburn's campus. If a single person had made such an impact, he/she most certainly would warrent an article of their own. Why should it matter if it was an organization? Taking into account the accomplishments of some of the notable chapters, I challenge those of you voting to delete for provide a more concrete reason than simple stating 'fratcruft'. And, for the record, I am a brother of this chapter. Littlerob1221 19:41, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete as Isotope23 --redstucco 09:43, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

• Keep First off, I am not a member of this organization. However, seeing it on the VfD list, and having grown up in the state of Alabama, I immediately thought: "interesting, that's the big service organization up at Auburn U. that does a lot of good stuff and maintained the live Eagle mascot many years until Federal Law made it unallowable for any other than a federal organization to maintain live eagles". And the article has those references, so good. Simply because this service organization uses a Greek letter designation, does not make it a "frat". If the group instead called itself the "Auburn Order of the Eagle" or "Auburn Service Organization", these "fratcruft" comments would no longer apply. The issue should be the content, not the Greek letters. The content is reasonable, the organization has a long history. (Which is probably indicated by the chapter being designated "Delta" I would assume...) I'm sure no one would recommend eliminating Order of the Eastern Star or Kiwanis chapter articles if and when written and detailed? --Sturmde 15:42, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.