Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cambridge Student Liberal Democrats

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 to continue the existing deletion discussion that is currently in progress on the original discussion page. Despite the request in the Wikipedia:Guide to deletion not to rename articles without being careful to rename the discussion page in parallel, CalJW (talk · contribs) moved this article from CSLD (AfD discussion) without moving the discussion page in parallel. The existing discussion is still open. Please discuss this article there. Uncle G 16:06, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Cambridge Student Liberal Democrats

This article was either never listed on AfD or was removed out of process. It's been up since September 24, with the two unsigned comments below. Delete as non-notable. sɪzlæk [ +t, +c, +m ] 09:07, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

There seem to be plenty of articles on Oxbridge political societies that have produced alumni that have gone on to be famous - such as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OUCA , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OULC and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Union - and I used these articles as the template. What are the grounds for deletion? There are quite a few MPs and Peers among the alumni, and it's a long-established society with over 100 members and 2,000 registered supporters on the 'interested' list - both exceptionally large figures for Cambridge, and making it one of the largest and best-known societies in the University. If you want to edit it to conform to a higher standard, by all means do so, and feel free to make suggestions for improvement and expansion, but I can't see this as something needing deletion.

When I find the time in the next few days I was planning to draw up some similar articles on CUCA and CULC, the Tory and Labour societies too - please don't put my efforts to waste! ;0) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.78.77.112 (talk • contribs) 02:35, September 24, 2005 (UTC)

I've now added http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_University_Labour_Club and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_University_Conservative_Association - together, the three societies with the Union make up the centre of Cambridge politics and have been the first political steps of many 'big names.' If you want to delete all four articles, go ahead, but I wouldn't recommend selectively deleting some, and they do seem important enough for historians/biographers to study in depth. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.78.92.235 (talk • contribs) 16:34, September 24, 2005 (UTC)

• Obvious keep, extremely well-known student society and source of many great UK politicos. Vizjim 15:32, 28 September 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.