Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kent Labour Students

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. Rx StrangeLove 06:27, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Kent Labour Students

This body is entirley non-notable, and in fact was deleted through VfD a while back.

It was deleted before? Really? Why isn't there any mention of this in the article history? When referring to previously deleted articles, it's nice if you can link to the previous debate, or at least to the deletion log. — Haeleth Talk 22:31, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

Yes, it really was, in May 2004. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kent Labour Students/old. I don't know why that doesn't appear in the article history, someone with more knowledge of how VfD worked might be able to tell us. The Land 10:28, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

The first comment I posted was to say I wrote this article and hadn't realised a previous version had been deleted. I've never seen it before. - Author. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.12.200.50 (talk • contribs) 23:51, November 15, 2005

• Delete, per nomination. The Land 10:26, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete for not being notable. --Frekja 10:39, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
• Don't Delete because other similar articles are allowed to remain. (I am the author and only bothered to write it when I saw a similar one for another society. I hadn't realised that there had been a previous version deleted - I've never seen it before)
• Delete. The group has a wopping 60 members on it's mailing list? As non-notable as they come. Ifnord 14:51, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
  • No, that would probably be something like Noodlesoc or the Varsity Trainspotting team. 60 active members isn't bad: it's larger than any of the societies I was involved with in my uni days. — Haeleth Talk 22:29, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

No need to be nasty, just delete it if you have to. Like I say, I assumed it is equally as "notable" as ones for other uni societies of similar subject and size. Just make sure you demonstrate consistancy. - Author —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.12.200.50 (talk • contribs) 10:11, 15 November 2005

Incidentally I clicked a link saying "Kent Labour Studnets" and it said there isn't an article, but I could write one. Make sure you turn this feature off if you decide to delete - that will stop others possibly wasting their effort. - Author —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.12.200.50 (talk • contribs) 10:17, 15 November 2005

• Comment. Of course the author is correct. If I type “qwertyuiop1234567890” into the search box, the Wikipedia will respond with a page that practically encourages me to write an article with such a title. ♠DanMS 19:14, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

• Merge a summary into University of Kent; it and the Tory equivalent have a couple of sentences in the "trivia" section, which could easily be expanded into a paragraph on student politics without unbalancing the article. — Haeleth Talk 22:29, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
  • This is a very good idea. All I ask for is consistancy. I wasn't going to name names, but "the Tory equivalent" has already been mentioned by Haeleth. If you delete Kent Labour Students you have to delete Kent Universaity Conservative Association as well. How, exactly, do I go about changing the article as suggested above? Do I have to implicate myself in petitioning for KUCA to be deleted? I appreciate any help - negativity not so much. - Author —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.12.200.50 (talk • contribs) 23:46, November 15, 2005
    • UPDATE I have just revisited University of Kent and discovered KUCA has already been removed. Since it had no deletion discussion, I presume the chairman removed it. What should I do now? - Author
• Merge a summary as per Haeleth, only weakly sourced --redstucco 10:07, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
• Coment. ...nearly 15 members on the mailing list. Wow! When I was a student at Kent (1998-2002) a society needed at least 20 paid-up members just to qualify for financial support! Timrollpickering 23:32, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
• Note LOL! I don't know who edited it but it's truely sad!! I assume it was you, Tim? Anyway, whoever it was, it's certainly a KUCA activist and that just goes to show what lengths tories have to go to to win an argument. I've already suggested this article can be deleted, but it's still here: yet yours got deleted! Must be gutting for you. I have the original still on disk but I'm not THAT bothered that I'm going to re-post it.
  • The only edit I have made to the article is to put in the University of Kent category as part of a wider building up of both that and several other University categories. I don't know who wrote what about the numbers on the mailing list, but perhaps the number of paid-up members would be a better statistic to use. That the KUCA article got deleted is not gutting for me - it had been VfDed before. Timrollpickering 05:41, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. As Chair of Kent Labour Students, I can say with some authority that this page is entirely pointless. For the record, we have over 40 paid up members (plus 100 more on the mailing list), but if people are going to edit articles out of spite or some childish attempt at "politics", then the whole thing is even more pointless. We are a Labour Club at a University; one of hundreds in the UK and no one in the world cares about us apart from our loyal members. If anyone is interested in finding out more about us then they can visit our quite extensive website. Therefore I see no reason for there to be a Wikipedia page at all. Markleach 23:33, 23 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.