Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chevaliers

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The result of the debate was delete. - Mailer Diablo 00:33, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Chevaliers

An Oxford secret society, or so the article claims. I find no mention of this in the ODNB biography of Shelley, nor any relevant hits from a full-text search of the entire ODNB. Searching for "Chevaliers" is obviously difficult, as it gives too many hits, but a Google search for Chevaliers oxford shelley[1] seems to find nothing relevant. I believe this is a hoax, but am willing to retract the nomination if it can be verified. u p p l a n d 08:41, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

• Delete, per nomination, unless verified. Tom Harrison ^(talk) 14:03, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete only one possible needle found in the Google haystack. Information about secret societies is by definition original research unless the author is an insider, in which case it becomes vanity. Endomion 14:10, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Comment: It's not quite accurate that articles about secret societies are by definition either original research or vanity. Hypothetically it would be possible to write a wiki article about a secret society based on someone else's published original research. One can quite easily write about Freemasonry, the Rosicrucians, the Illuminati or even the Skull and Bones society at Yale. Of course, YMMV regarding what constitutes a secret society. Crypticfirefly 16:38, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

Agreed, but one search engine hit (and even then the mention is only in passing) in this case indicates no one else researched this secret society. Endomion 07:46, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

• Delete Shelley attended Oxford for only 11 months before getting expelled for publishing a paper about atheism. The claim about him belonging to a secret society as a student is pretty farfetched. The article is completely unsourced anyway. Durova 16:48, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, secret society being exposed on Wikipedia for the first time? Pavel Vozenilek 01:18, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Wikipedia is not a webhost, among other things. Stifle 13:43, 26 December 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.