Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Franklin Society (Whittier College)


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The result was   delete. Spartaz Humbug! 04:37, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

Franklin Society (Whittier College)

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I am also nominating the following related pages:

Local fraternities and societies are not particularly notable, and these are no exception. The O's article, despite the Nixon connection, is completely unsourced. The Palmers' only reference is their page on Whittier College's website. The Franklins' only source is Chuck Elliott's history of Whittier College, which isn't independent enough of the subject. A search in Google Books and Scholar for the O's and Franklins mostly turned up fleeting references in Nixonalia; the Palmers turned up virtually nothing at all. In addition, both Franklins and Palmers have been PRODded over sourcing and notability concerns; neither has been significantly sourced since their prods. Furthermore, the Palmers and the O's both violate naming conventions. The three articles should either be nixed outright, merged into Whittier College, or (this is what I would do) merged into one article dealing with all of WC's societies. Though these articles do have some meaningful content, I don't believe three full articles are warranted for their subjects  Purpleback pack  89  ≈≈≈≈  04:31, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
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 * delete&mdash;agree these are non-notable. the only one with even mentions in reliable and independent sources is of course orthogonian.  it's not discussed there, though, but only mentioned due to its connection with nixon. it probably deserves a sentence or two in his article (which maybe it has, i didn't look).  these shouldn't be merged into the whittier college article, because they're trivial in relation to the college as a whole.  i have no feelings about merging all three into one article about the societies, because i haven't looked into the notability.  my feeling is that the best thing to do is delete, and if anyone wants to do a WC society article later, they should give it a shot.  p.s. Purplebackpack89, your nominations here wouldn't be connected to your being an alum of oxy, would it? (kidding, of course!) &mdash; alf.laylah.wa.laylah (talk) 16:50, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete all complete lack of independent notable sources. Stuartyeates (talk) 07:19, 6 November 2011 (UTC)
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