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Our project
Good afternoon CanadianTKE. I noted a recent edit you made to a page, updating Alpha Delta Phi. Thanks for that.

Should you have further interest in Greek societies, we'd welcome your participation on our shared project, the Fraternities and Sororities Project.

For many of us, these institutions represent a very impactful period in our lives. I know of several chapter advisors among the regular 300 participants, along with general alumni and undergrads that are Wiki-savvy. We presently keep an eye on 1,500 or so Greek pages, while a fairly substantial number of recent or dormant local chapters don't make the cut. There are perhaps 6,000 locals that do not have a Wikipedia article, and maybe 50 that do - mostly at Ivy League schools. Long ago, the Baird's Manual editors decided to include as national groups those societies that had three or more chapters, or locals that met a certain bar of longevity: ten years or more. We follow that same logic.

The Project page lists several items on our To Do list, but among them are:


 * 1) Review any of our watched pages for vandalism.
 * 2) Update chapter information for the many lists of chapters.
 * 3) Write an article to list the Greek chapters, both present and past, on a particular campus. 50 of these have been done, so far.
 * 4) Research a new article for a page that is missing. On our watchlist, these show up as red links.
 * 5) Vote on whether to keep a contested page or not.

There is a debate among editors on Wikipedia about whether to aggressively delete articles or allow their inclusion, based on a notoriously fickle determination of NOTIBILITY. Once an article is factually and cleanly written, I personally favor Inclusion, in order to make life easier for future researchers. Especially for fraternity, sorority and collegiate society articles.

If this last issue is of interest, you may wish to weigh in on a recent discussion of an "Article for Deletion" or AfD: Two or three of these crop up each month. One we are currently discussing is Articles for deletion/Eta Sigma Gamma. Voting is simple, and the instructions are at the top. Just add a line, with your vote, to Keep or Delete (or some other option) bolded at the start of the line.

Whatever you choose to do, we would welcome your participation in this Greek-friendly project. Join by adding your name here. Jax MN (talk) 17:34, 11 February 2021 (UTC)

Article for deletion
You may not have seen these. There is an current AfD debate on two Project articles. Jax MN (talk) 15:31, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
 * See WikiProject Deletion sorting/Fraternities and sororities

Delta Pi
By the way, knowing your interest in Canadian fraternities and sororities, should you come across reliable sources for Delta Pi, a Jewish women's organization in Ontario, I'd like to re-publish an article about them that was deleted in a contested AfD a few years ago. Clearly, to our Project, Delta Pi is notable (over 30 years old, four chapters), but they've not responded to my inquiries about any press they have gathered. Further, like most Canadian colleges and universities, there is no official recognition from their campuses that would lead to any official campus portal website. And then, typically, news coverage is scant. I believe I need one more WP:RS to ensure the article may survive challenge. I know of the Baird's Archive listing. Can you find anything else?

Some of these editors are so convinced that they should kill articles rather than fix them. It's annoying. Jax MN (talk) 15:36, 11 April 2022 (UTC)