Talk:Phi Sigma Chi (sorority)

Why is does the article have "(sorority)" in the name?
Three reasons. First, between 2006 and 2011, several, likely new editors attempted to write an article about the group, but either used overly-promotional language (WP:PEACOCK), or simply copied and pasted the content of the sorority's website into the article. Neither of these are allowed. Wikipedia, an encyclopedia, requires that language used should summarize verifiable, original sources with citations. An article can be linked to the group's own website for some detail, but additional outside sources are required. See Pan Sophic or Adelphikos for examples.

Secondly, there was/is a boy's high school fraternity with the same name, of about the same age. I don't know for sure if some of these ten prior efforts to write this page were done in support of capturing the article name for that group, but it seems likely. All together, these multiple efforts to create a WP page, all of which were deleted because of WP:COPYVIO, WP:PEACOCK, lack of a WP:NPOV or simply lack of quality, none of these previous pages survived. Because of the repeated (poor) efforts, the page name was actually SALTED - kind of an extreme ban. When I embarked on writing WP:REDIRECT pages for all the active Grove City College chapters, I couldn't actually edit this particular article name, the only page name banned ("Salted") out of almost 30 groups. (Previous admins weren't picking on the group; the proposed articles repeatedly were poorly done.) I was able to convince the current admins to lift the long-term page creation protection (ban) in order to create the Disambiguation page, Phi Sigma Chi, which now points to five groups: this sorority, and to what I discovered were four additional groups that use(d) this Greek letter name.

Lastly, once I dug into it, I saw that today, there are at least five organizations that use or have previously used the name "Phi Sigma Chi"; they all have some right to it, and so we use these modifiers to guide readers to the correct one. There certainly may have been several more, so the list may grow. The article Phi Sigma Chi, now a Disambiguation page, is sort of a way-point that lists all the multiple groups that use(d) that name.

An article about the Grove City College group may still be created here, at Phi Sigma Chi (sorority). replacing the "redirect" language with a verifiable and clean article, similar to Pan Sophic or Adelphikos. One might use these as templates... Jax MN (talk) 12:07, 31 August 2021 (UTC)