Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lambda Tau Omega

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. Mailer Diablo 10:37, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Lambda Tau Omega

Reads like an advertisement, and has only one or two contributers. JD[^{don't talk}|_email] 19:08, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

• Weak Keepchanged below and rewrite. They have 15 chapters, which I suppose is enough for an article. The material seems to be mostly taken from a page on their website. I'll contact the posters and see if they hold copyright and can properly relicense. Incidentally, that an article has only one or two contributors is not a rationale for deletion.--Chaser T 19:23, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
  • I know that a low number of contributers isn't rationale for deletion, but as I don't even know about Lambda Tau Omega, I figured it might just be something the creator made up, or that it might be something unnotable. --JD[^{don't talk}|_email] 19:31, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
    • Well, it took me five minutes on their website to confirm that this isn't something made-up (there are several chapter websites and it's listed on a university's website). You might research this first on the web before making an AfD nom. Notability is another matter. 15 chapters isn't very many, so I may change my vote to delete if arguments sway me.--Chaser T 19:45, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
      • Yeah, I guess I was a bit quick to put this one up. I'll keep that in mind before I put any more articles up for deletion. Thanks. --JD[^{don't talk}|_email] 20:03, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
• Weak delete Exists, but doesn't appear particularly notable to me. I don't want to sound deletist, but this one looks like it could just clog search results for greek letters, an effect that would be magnified if every second frat/sor house treated this as a precedent for their own page. Paddles ^T_C 13:17, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

 AFD relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached.
 Please add new discussions below this notice. Thanks, Mailer Diablo 20:58, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

• Delete I looked at a couple of other Greek org pages. Many of them have hundreds of chapters, but one had as few as 107. I'm not sure where the bright line should be, so I'm not going to try to draw it. The only other distinction I see is that this organization's webpage is on geocities, instead of their own domain, which isn't really a bright line, either. However, the lack of sources and the copyright issues push this over the edge, so I'm changing my vote to delete.--Chaser T 21:52, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete: This is an old debate. Individual chapters are not individual articles. If there is a desperate need for the brothers and sisters, they can put it into the #Student life section of the university. Pyramid scheme operators are less insistent on self-promotion than fraternity houses. Geogre 02:44, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. This article is not about an individual chapter of a sorority, but about a national sorority, or at least one apparently aspiring to be national (most chapters are in New Jersey, but it also has chapters in Florida and Illinois). Student organizations which exist at multiple schools often are notable. I don't get to say that too often. --Metropolitan90 02:49, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, in my opinion, sororities and fraternities have to be exceptional to be notable enough for an encyclopedia article, not just existing at a little over a dozen schools. -- Kjkolb 02:59, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, extremely minor sorority, article reads like an ad. --Coredesat talk. o.o;; 03:59, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Weasely vanity article for non-notable organization. --Xrblsnggt 04:08, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. It's written from the first person. WP:VAIN, WP:ORG αChimp ^laudare 04:42, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete vanity/promo. Wile E. Heresiarch 06:09, 26 July 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.