Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cambridge University Science Fiction Society


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The result was redirect to List of social activities at the University of Cambridge. -- RoySmith (talk) 18:53, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

Cambridge University Science Fiction Society

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I prodded it with the following rationale: "The coverage (references, external links, etc.) does not seem sufficient to justify this article passing General notability guideline and the more detailed Notability (companies) requirement. " It was deprodded by User:Andrew Kanaber with the following rationale "add details, de-prod". Unfortunately, I still don't see enough sources to satisfy (IMHO) NORG. We have two references to the club's own website, and two mentions in passing; the newspaper one is pretty much irrelevant per "notability is not inherited" (so it doesn't matter that someone was a member is notable and his membership in the club is mentioned on occasion). The one about the Game is cool but hardly suffices for notability. I couldn't find any better sources, and so, unless someone can dig up independent treatments of the subject, preferably in depth, discussing the society's importance to the wider world, I am afraid the only thing to do is to delete it. A mention of its at The Game (mind game) is all that at present it would deserve. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 14:37, 1 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete as I concur, there's nothing convincing for independent notability here and the information is barely significant or substantial. SwisterTwister   talk  04:28, 2 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete, nothing notable. Cabayi (talk) 12:13, 2 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep. What WP:NORG really seems to want is a profile article in a national newspaper, which is unrealistic for a student society, excluding for the political ones where national politicians-to-be (and national newspaper journalists-to-be) cut their teeth. Instead this is a place where multiple fantasy and SF authors cut their teeth and were first published in the society magazine, as well as being the source of two nationally well known things, "the Game" and the Monster Raving Loony Party. I think that's enough to likely be of interest to those wikipedia readers who either follow a wikilink here or search for terms that produce this article as a result. Andrew Kanaber (talk) 22:19, 6 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Do read and consider WP:ITSUSEFUL and other sections on that page. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 22:29, 6 February 2017 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science fiction-related deletion discussions. Necrothesp (talk) 14:19, 3 February 2017 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Natg 19 (talk) 02:19, 9 February 2017 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Comment: I see this mentioned here and there, but it's all sort of sparse. I think it should be mentioned somewhere, even if it's only as a redirect to List of social activities at the University of Cambridge. It does have the one notable game, so maybe we could have a merge with that article somehow? Maybe a lead paragraph followed by the article for the game itself? Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  13:44, 10 February 2017 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, &mdash; Coffee //  have a cup  //  beans  // 07:36, 17 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Redirect (& add) to List of social activities at the University of Cambridge, lacks depth of coverage needed for WP:ORG. Gab4gab (talk) 15:03, 17 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Redirect: agree with Gab4gab - Ret.Prof (talk) 16:22, 25 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes, please Redirect and add to List of social activities at the University of Cambridge. Bishonen &#124; talk 01:01, 26 February 2017 (UTC).
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 02:18, 26 February 2017 (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.