Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of student societies at the University of York

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The result was delete. - Mailer Diablo 06:49, 4 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

List of student societies at the University of York[edit]

The first paragraph is already in the University article. Why does an encyclopaedia need a list of societies within a University? There is a good bit of text already in the Uni article on its societies so I would not suggest putting this list in there; it is of no interest to the outside world that they have a bridge club (I speak as a bridge player!) and if you are a student there you would go to their website not here for detailed information. Bridgeplayer 01:20, 30 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Bridgeplayer 00:44, 31 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Non-encyclopaedic. WP is not a university Freshser's Manual, after all. TXP Cain Mosni 01:59, 30 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. Lists of university groups belong on that university's website/handbook, not in an encyclopedia. Rohirok 03:16, 30 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per WP:NOT#Wikipedia is not a directory. --Shirahadasha 03:51, 30 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per above. --Core des at talk. ^_^ 07:20, 30 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per above. I've just commented on another that I do not see deletion because it is a list as being valid but this seems a list too many. Nigel ^(Talk) 12:20, 30 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - natural spinout for University of York. Obviously a stub, but I don't see why that's so bad. WilyD 12:47, 30 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nomination. Non encyclopaedic, and not notable. It does not contain any student society unlikely to be in any other University. Ohconfucius 03:39, 31 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. NN.-Kmaguir1 09:02, 31 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep To avoid the current situation where the societies are creeping onto the main page and making it massive and unmanageable. Also potential to expand and add histories of each group etc. Inclusionist. Pluke 19:25, 31 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestion move to Student societies at the University of York and place details about funding, histories and achievements on there, hence getting rid of the listy nature and making more encyclopaedic. Ideas? Pluke 19:27, 31 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Comment There's nothing notable about a university or student union having societies. There's nothing particularly notable about this student union's societies. WP is not a tour guide for the world's students. Individual societies might merit articles - Oxford's athletics union, or whatever they call it, for instance - in light of "Chariots of Fire" (pun noted, but not intentional). Cain Mosni 20:31, 31 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Delete NN Michael Billington (talk • contribs) 04:52, 1 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per Shirahadasha. Many of these societies compete in the Roses Tournament, which is worthy of an entry, but a complete list of societies is just using WP as a directory. --Mnem e son 23:07, 2 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Student societies at universities get formed and disbanded very regularly, so the list will probably become out of date very quickly (unless it's monitored very carefully). And anyway, it's not of much interest to anyone outside the university itself. I'm sure they have their own websites for this kind of thing. If such a list helps prevent frivlous pages about individual societies appearing on Wikipedia, it would be better for the list to exist within within the York University Students' Union page rather than being a separate page. Zaxem 04:46, 3 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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.