Talk:Streaking at Dartmouth College

Response to
This is a response to the concern by User:129.170.131.229 (talk | contribs) that stated the following:

"All but one source is from a Dartmouth source, topic is unencyclopedic (see the recently AfD-voted deletion of Dartmouth Seven about places of fornication at Dartmouth here: Articles_for_deletion/Dartmouth_Seven"

The opposition to the Dartmouth Seven was (1) unverifiability, (2) original research, and (3) "something made up in school one day." None of these applies to Streaking at Dartmouth College: the diversity of sources cited shows that traditions like the Challenges are not hoaxes or minority concepts, but well-recognized campus traditions. The multiple articles cited devoted solely to the subject of streaking would not exist of streaking was totally irrelevant to student life. Everything in the article is cited, verifiable, and non-original research.

Since when does the location of the sources matter for making something worthwhile for inclusion? The sources are almost all from Dartmouth because this issue is about Dartmouth. If we start deleting every article that applies to a fairly closed community, I recommend that you or delete the following, for example:


 * Reed College
 * Brown University
 * Brown University
 * Everything but a few well-known groups at Yale University
 * Columbia University
 * University of Pennsylvania
 * Princeton University
 * May Ball
 * Registrary
 * Footlights

Virtually any article about a non-internationally-renowned college group or publication would meet the same objections. That's a lot of deleting. The only reason why this section isn't part of Dartmouth College like many of the "Traditions" sections above is because it's too big. (I wouldn't be opposed to integrating this article into a larger Dartmouth College traditions article).

I've been through What Wikipedia is not front to back, and can't find a single thing that this article violates. Please elaborate on why this article is "unencyclopedic." Dylan 20:49, 3 June 2006 (UTC)