Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bulldog Party

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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 was delete. —David Eppstein (talk) 02:31, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Bulldog Party

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Non-notable student government political party at Truman State University. Article functions as mere historical record of a student club at a university. Makes no assertion of notability. (According to Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Common_outcomes#Education school clubs are not notable.) Contains no third party reliable sources - all 5 sources are from TSU student newspaper and Googlenews search comes up empty [1]. Stubbed information already moved to main article here. RedShiftPA (talk) 23:56, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Note - This is very similar to the Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bearcat Voice

  • Delete per nom. Fails WP:ORG and notability of the school does not descend to its student groups. Collectonian (talk) 01:14, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep should be the norm. The 'notability' is the organization is unique to student groups currently featured on wikipedia. I authored the article, but was never a member of the Bulldog Party or even associated with Truman State University, when I heard about this group I wanted to find more. What I found I put in this article. If this fails notablity then wikipedia is failing its purpose. This is not a place where you better bring a law degree and read pages and pages of rules before you even dare write an article. It seems like we have more wikilawyers running around out there trying to delete aricles than are trying to write them. There is a groupthink at work and it is hard to stop. I write this not to get a response from those who nominate or support deletion but for those who truly want this web site to be the number one encyclopedia on the web. The article is not "original research", what can be found is cited, but not everything in the world can be linked in a wiki article. The Truman Index is a university supervised publication not a self-publication, it is a 'reliable third-party publications' Bottom line Bearcat Voice should be combined with Bulldog Party as a sub-heading and maybe even with Student Association of Missouri, from what I found all three relate directly back to the Bulldog Party. BCV (talk) 05:52, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete - There are dozens of clubs at the average college; clubs for playing tag football, clubs for peer assistance, clubs for watching movies, clubs for leadership development, clubs for future optometrists, etc. There are tens of thousands of colleges and universities in the world. The only way a college club can be on Wikipedia is if has notability, by the standards of WP:ORG. An example would be the Porn 'n Chicken club from Yale. Lord Uniscorn (talk) 08:18, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete I questioned the notability of this article back in December. At the time, I decided to leave it alone and tried to give User:BCV a bit of coaching on what makes an article notable, how he could improve it, and arguments that he shouldn't be making in an attempt to keep it. I kept it on my watchlist hoping he would eventually add to it, and try to improve it. Other than the addition of a few references within a few days of the initial {{notability}} tag, no changes have been made since, and none since my coaching attempt. It didn't meet the requirements of notability set by WP:ORG then, and it doesn't now. Jauerbackdude?/dude. 13:22, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete, has no notability outside of the university. -- Naerii · plz create stuff 18:39, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep One Alumnus of the Bulldog Party is now on the Board of Governors, the governing board of Truman State University. Where have all the Porn 'n Chicken alumni gone? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.162.123.133 (talk) 16:07, 15 March 2008 (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.