Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Adelaide University Engineering Society

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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. Babajobu 08:17, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Adelaide University Engineering Society

I'm wondering if this meets the notability criteria. It is mainly a social club at a university, which is typically concerned with the consumption of alcohol?? I go to this university, and so am abstaining. It is very well written though. Blnguyen 01:36, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

  • Keep
    • Thankyou for the compliment Blnguyen. Kino, if you had examined the logs, you would see that the edits such as contact us and our website were done by a different user to the main editor of the page (that is, me). To those who say most of the socities activities relate to pub crawls, this is partly true - they hold a single pubcrawl which is quite large, however, that is by no means the limit of the scope of this page. As the page is still being written, I ask everyone to give it a chance. This is my first major contribution to the wiki, so any guidance would be greatly appricated over straight out deletion. Shenki 23:25, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
    • After closely re-reading all of the relevant documentation on deletion, I believe this article does not qualify for deletion as those below have mentioned. I agree with Blnguyen that the article must not become just a advertisment for some student club which just drinks alcohol (infact, I was concious of this when creating the article in the first place).Shenki 23:36, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Redirect to University of Adelaide. -- Jonel | Speak 02:49, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete most of its activities relate to pub crawls. Could possibly get a sentence in the Uni of Adelaide article under social life. Keep and cleanup. Shenki's rewrite is improving the article greatly especially the emphasis on famous members and publications. Capitalistroadster 02:56, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Note: This debate has been included in the list of Australia-related deletions. -- Capitalistroadster 02:56, 8 February 2006 (UTC)"
  • Delete. Smells of WP:VSCA (at least as of this writing. It says it's currently undergoing major changes). Royboycrashfan 03:24, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete... not very notable, as social clubs like this, "official" or otherwise, are dime-a-dozen at every university. Also, this is reasonably close to fitting WP:VSCA in my book (i.e., the section "Contact Us" stating to "goto our website"), and I don't see how revisions would help that, even if those ubiquitous first person pronouns were removed. --Kinu 03:25, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete -- Longhair 03:44, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete --cj | talk 09:17, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Weak keep. Despite the VSCA references, if those were removed I would recommend a keep. Rogerthat Talk 10:17, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete --Terence Ong (恭喜发财) 12:49, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete cruft. It does not appear to do anythign whihc distinguishes it from any other student club (see the prominence of "pubcrawl" i there?). We had two societies at uni that might scrape notability, one was the film club whihc won BFFS Best Film Society and Best Student Film Society several times, the other was the engineering society which ran a 1929 Dennis toastrack bus and took it to Russia with an aid convoy. This article doesn't even include that kind of minor notoriety. Just zis  Guy, you know? [T]/[C] 13:04, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Weak keep It does seem to exist and has a web site [1] altho the name is slightly different, and seems to be more than just a drinking club. Plus someone seems to be rewriting the article, so it could be worth keeping. Elfguy 13:43, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete Death Eater Dan 19:38, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete as per capitalistroadster. --Roisterer 08:32, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Weak keep I'm a former University of Adelaide student from another faculty, but this is one of the best-known clubs there. --Scott Davis Talk 12:10, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Merge and redirect to the university. Stifle 13:19, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep - It is much more notable than you nerds. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.26.123.147 (talk • contribs)
  • Really? It scores 59 Google hits and zero inbound links per Yahoo, I score 1600 on the web and a few tens of thousands in Groups, and around 7000 inbound links to my private website. You may be wrong here! - Just zis  Guy, you know? [T]/[C] 09:31, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete non-notable. --Karnesky 22:53, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete every university has lots and lots of of societies...why is this one notable? -- Pierremenard 22:53, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
  • if you had read the page, the discussion here, or any comments posted by myself to admins who have experience in this area, you would know that the society is considered noteable as a number of famous students were members of the society, and it is on this basis that I belived the society notable. There are plenty of societies that I know of at the uni who could not be considered notable, but this one is. Shenki 08:06, 14 February 2006 (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.