Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Residence Hall Federation

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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 of the debate was Speedy Merge per consensus below. There were no objections to a speedy merge and the original nominator agreed. A comment has been left at Talk:Residence Hall Federation linking to this AFD. BigDT 04:43, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Residence Hall Federation

Non-notable student organization (outside of Virginia Tech, I'm sure it's decently important there). Perhaps a mention in the Virginia Tech article is appropriate, but not this type of article that describes every division and committee of the organization. Metros232 00:24, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

  • Keep. Seems to be an important student group as per nom. Probably better outside the main article although a merge might be ok. --JJay 00:52, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Weak delete 794 hits on Google, but a lot of it seems to be personal pages mentioning so-and-so served as president/vice president/etc. of the organization. Some other hits are from the Virginia Tech website itself. It doesn't seem to be very notable outside the Virginia Tech community.--El aprendelenguas 01:08, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Strong Delete Every college in the world probably has some organization like this. (I served in one a thousand years ago). We do not want to start listing every organization and student government body from every school. Fan1967 01:25, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Strong Delete Wikipedia is not a college campus info booth Bwithh 02:47, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep but cleanup. RHF is not just another student organization at Tech. It is one of the major entities in the university governance system. Many colleges have separate subpages for particular aspects of the school. This is no different. BigDT 03:41, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Can you name one school which has an article for its dorm council? Fan1967 03:49, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
  • No, but what level of importance do other schools' hall councils have in the university governance system? At Tech, our RHF is coequal with the SGA. BigDT 04:23, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
I think the point the user was making I misread, so I'll say that my point is that the key to Wikipedia is wikilinks, interaction of articles. It would take the creation of articles on the dorm halls, which don't merit articles. Aside from linking to the university, this article would be an orphan. Give it a brief mention in the VT article, but it doesn't even deserve a merge. Teke 06:25, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
As a point of information, there were individual articles for a handful of buildings on VT's campus. All except three notable ones have been merged into Virginia Tech campus and I am working to clean up that article. BigDT 16:32, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
I don't think we need an article for each school's SGA. If a school has a high-profile academic program, that may be worth a separate article. SGA's and dorm councils are worth, at best, a section in the university's article. Fan1967 16:18, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete I've made my peace with allowing middle schools, I won't give in to individual university organizations. Not encyclopedic. Teke 06:21, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Merge with Virginia Tech. Neither RHFs nor SGAs get main articles. B.Wind 06:41, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom. - Motor (talk) 08:37, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete I haven't made my peace with middle schools or summer camps, either. -- GWO
  • Merge per B.Wind. MaxSem 09:29, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Weak keep While it isn't that large, it seems large enough to not simply be a vanity page, so why delete it? Mrjeff 11:52, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom and everyone above. -- Kicking222 12:16, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Merge what is worth mentioning with the Virginia Tech article Ydam 12:49, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Merge or Keep. Rain74 13:04, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom. --Nearly Headless Nick 13:46, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom. --cholmes75 (chit chat) 16:20, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
  • I withdraw my objection above to a merge based on the general consensus here. I've created a section for it at Virginia Tech campus. Could the closing admin redirect the article to Virginia Tech campus? RHF is only at Virginia Tech - nobody else calls their "dorm council" RHF - and so VT's campus page is the logical place to redirect the article. If someone has a great objection to redirecting it to VT, the other place to redirect would be National Association of College and University Residence Halls, which, as the name implies, is the national organization for RHF-like entities. (Full disclosure: in case it isn't obvious, I'm a VT alum, though I was not involved with RHF - I was an RA and RAs were not permitted to participate in RHF because of possible conflicted interests.) BigDT 16:32, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete of no interest to anyone outside Virginia Tech. Mr Stephen 18:32, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete or Merge with Virginia Tech hoopydinkConas tá tú? 22:15, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom unless the article is changed to include the Residence Hall Association/Federation of every university. It is not notable when just for one university. --Strothra 23:28, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Motion to close as speedy merge - the most useful content has already been added into the appropriate spot on Virginia Tech campus. Because of GFDL requirements, the old article needs to be changed into a redirect with the history intact, which requires no administrative action. Does anyone have an objection to closing the AFD? BigDT 23:41, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Support Since almost every comment here says merge, I say go for it. Metros232 23:46, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Support Thanks for the work, BigDT. Teke 03:50, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Support. Sounds perfectly fine to me. Grandmasterka 03:21, 6 June 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.