Talk:Sigma Pi, Mu Chapter

Page creation
I've cleaned up the infobox and body text somewhat, to meet Project standards. However, very few local chapters of national fraternities have their own articles. The exceptions being where a building is on the national historic register, or where the chapter is notable for some crisis. The photos here may not be correctly licensed/released either -- I have not yet checked.

I suppose that eventually all active chapters of all fraternities and sororities will be allowed articles, but the current temperature among Wikipedians has a bias against this, where the remaining Deletionists tend to remove them because of a perceived lack of notability. Hence, this may be a test case. References are crucial to acceptance of the article. Jax MN (talk) 19:33, 18 July 2024 (UTC)


 * The combination of notable alumni and lengthy history of the chapter were what led me to create the page. Hopefully the test case goes well. Sheckmojr (talk) 20:13, 18 July 2024 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure if you'd count me as a deletionist here (someone should go back and count my entries on for me. and I bet I have far more articles created than proposed for deletion), but I do have significant concerns.
 * ) Other than external references about membership (see below for my comments on those), the references about the group are either from the school newspaper, are about a fire that seems to have been more notable for Insurance results and one reference from the New York Times which is used as a reference for a fact that Sigma Pi, Mu chapter shares with hundreds of other fraternity chapters in this country.
 * ) In regards to the external references on notable members, while I can't get to them all, but that's not an issue.
 * Weiss, neither Wikidata nor Wikipedia can be used as a reference.
 * Zimmer - that one is fine.
 * Sorkin - imdb can not be used as a reference
 * Gerson - Sigma Pi is not mentioned in the Obit
 * So only one is appropriately referenced.
 * IMO, only a general change in not just what is appropriate for articles within the Fraternity/Sorority sphere of articles *and* a more general change to what is necessary to show notability for an article would make this single chapter appropriate for a Wikipedia article.Naraht (talk) 21:19, 18 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Although there are plenty of sources, notability calls for independent sources and significant coverage. Sources associated with the school and the fraternity might be reliable but are not considered independent. The other coverage is mostly not significant. So, the issue is not whether GLO chapters can have an article but whether or not this article meets notability.
 * Per WP:INHERITORG, "An organization is not notable merely because a notable person or event was associated with it.". So having notable members is not enough. Also, notable members are covered already in List of Sigma Pi members which includes a spot for the chapter name. Rublamb (talk) 20:49, 20 July 2024 (UTC)