Talk:Quadrangle Club

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[edit] "Official" Website

What makes a website "official"?

Dcandeto wrote that http://quad.princeton.edu is the Princeton Quadrangle Club official website and that http://www.quadrangleclub.org/ is the Princeton Quadrangle Club alumni website. This seems to be pretty much correct, except that quadrangleclub.org says "Welcome Members and Alumni! Welcome to this first incarnation of the official Princeton Quadrangle Club website," and it is maintained by the Graduate Board, which technically governs the eating club.

I realize that quad.princeton.edu is used for the most current announcements to members, etc., but if the club's official website is a princeton.edu website (i.e. if it is hosted or sponsored by the university), what does that say about the club's situation as a private, independent organization? Technically the eating clubs serve members of the university community but are not part of the university. Nor do they fall under university supervision. I heard that way back in the 1990s the university wouldn't even give the clubs bandwidth because that might make them seem like part of the university.

Does anyone have an idea about how that legal/status issue shakes out today? Poldy Bloom 16:53, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed deletion

I had placed a {{prod}} tag on this article since I did not feel that it passed WP:CORP guidelines, and it has a serious lack of third-party sources. I then received an off-wiki challenge to the deletion, from some members of the Club, at least one of whom provided me with a marginal source (proof that the Club is notable enough that it is included in a University press release about one of the notable members). I'm not convinced yet that the Club is notable enough for its own article, but I've gone ahead and removed the PROD tag for now, to give the article a bit more breathing room. I recommend that those interested in the subject work hard to provide third-party sources which affirm the Club's notability. If not, the article should either be merged to Eating clubs, or sent to WP:AFD for a full deletion discussion.

If anyone does have third-party sources about the Club, please either add them to the article or post them here, and we'll get them added in. Thanks, --Elonka 00:45, 19 January 2008 (UTC)