Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/York University Students' Union

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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 was Consensus to delete. 1 != 2 23:16, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] York University Students' Union

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Another non-notable student's union. This article doesn't assert any notability through use of external links to independant, reliable sources, and thus fails WP:N. TheIslander 18:06, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

  • Delete per WP:ORG. Again, the more of these I see, the more I'm convinced that they're all non-notable. I haven't seen a solid claim of notability in any of them yet. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 19:38, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete per Starblind. Stifle (talk) 20:07, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete per Starblind. This should be on the YUSU website, not in Wikipedia. Akiyama (talk) 21:04, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Redirect and merge to the University article. Corvus cornixtalk 23:51, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete Per Starblind. Lawrence Cohen 16:12, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep I can't see the benefit of deleting articles about Student Unions. It is impossible to create a catch all article as each student union is run in a different way and have different policies. This discussion would be far better served by having it on all student unions and not individual discussion. There has already been an AfD discussion for SOAS Students' Union that reached no consensus, and I feel that the current AfDs will reach the same conclusion. If this article is deleted then why not delete all the other UK student unions in one fell swoop? Andy Hartley (talk) 23:17, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
    • Comment Each article stands on it's own merits. Whereas one may be notable, another may not, even if on similar subjects. I did consider creating one AfD for the lot, but wasn't sure, and as per the guidelines for creating AfD's "...if you are unsure of whether to bundle an article or not, do not". You state "...each student union is run in a different way and have different policies". Well, not really. Granted there are slight variations here and there, and there are one or two unions that are just run in a completely different mannor that probably are notable enough for their own article, but on the whole all SUs are pretty much the same. There's pretty much nothing that differentiates one SU from the next, and I've made very sure that I've only nominated those that don't appear to have anything particularly notable about them. There are others that I may nominate, depending on the outcome of these few, but equally there are others that I won't nominate, 'cause I feel that they are notable enough to satisfy WP:N. TheIslander 23:34, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep for now As this AFD and others touch of exactly the same issues, see my lengthy comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Southampton University Students' Union about a better way forward of encouraging people to get decent sourcing whilst at the same time getting an actual policy about inherent notability in place, rather than the current mess of individual AFDs on the same basic issue having different outcomes. Timrollpickering (talk) 03:00, 12 December 2007 (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.