Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/$100 Solution


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was   delete. -- Cirt (talk) 16:25, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

$100 Solution

 * – ( View AfD View log )

While certainly admirable, this entity does not appear to be notable.

$100 Solution is a sub-entity of the Prospect/Goshen Rotary chapter. But the Prospect/Goshen Rotary chapter is itself not notable (we don't have articles for individual Rotary chapters), so why would one of its programs rate an article? What they have done is good, but no different from thousands of other charitable activities.

It says "The $100 Solution is used in the International Service Learning Program at the University of Louisville and Semester at Sea." This would be the only possible marker of notability, I think. But the Semester at Sea article doesn't mention $100 Solution so I wonder how central this entity is to that program. Perhaps a merge of one or two sentences about the program in the Semester at Sea article would be in order.

Tagged for notability last summer, and no improvement since then. No articles about the program in any newspapers or like that, the only refs are to press releases and the like from Semester at Sea. Herostratus (talk) 15:51, 17 February 2011 (UTC)  Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 01:08, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 17:51, 17 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Merge to the Rotary Club, which is notable per past debates here at AfD, as are the largest chapters, but its individual programs would not be. I do not see how it would pass WP:GNG, but I would remain open if somebody else finds better sourrces. Bearian (talk) 17:05, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, J04n(talk page) 02:52, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Comment from nominator. Perhaps I should have been more clear. Well we see where being bland gets you, so gloves off: this entity is not notable, period, and is not even close to being notable. I mean, look at the article. There is an entire section ""Textbooks for the Elderly in Hong Kong". What is it about? Some students donated $100 to buy some textbooks. That is what the entire section is about. The other sections are all like that. "Hot Water for a Viet Nam Orphanage" - some students donated $100. And they are all like this. No wait, some of them are worse. Here is the entire text of the section "Hong Kong's Neighborhood Elderly Center":
 * In Fall 2009, Semester at Sea revisited the center that hosts the Adult English class from their $100 Solution in 2007. Another class was taught by the Semester at Sea students to the new group of elderly students. They also played an English language bingo with the elderly students. The elderly students really liked being able to have discussions with the students who speak fluent English. Among the expressed needs were English music and English/Cantonese dictionaries. The dictionaries were chosen as the solution. On top of the $100 Solution, a Students of Service group on Semester at Sea was able to ship back English CDs to the Elderly Center.
 * I'm very, very happy that the students had a nice game of bingo. I really am. But do I have to read about it Wikipedia? (And the article doesn't even specify what the winning board was - I thought we were supposed to be WP:COMPREHENSIVE!) If I invite the neighbors over tomorrow to play Pictionary, can I have an article about that? How about if I donate a thousand dollars? I would get a whole series of articles for that, right? Category:Articles about this one time when a person donated $1,000 to a charity. I think I've made my point? Herostratus (talk) 03:47, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

LOL XD &#x0F3A; gabrielkfl &#x0F3B;  (talk)  08:18, 4 March 2011 (UTC) (sorry for the spam, by the way, but I had to say it)
 * Delete per nom. No clear claim to notability. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 04:47, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment: "(And the article doesn't even specify what the winning board was - I thought we were supposed to be WP:COMPREHENSIVE!)"
 * Delete There is nothing very original in the concept here, and as the nominator so eloquently points out the application is trivial. Fails for notability. AJHingston (talk) 11:59, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
 * 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.