Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Improvised Comedy Ents


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The result was delete as a non-notable student group, WP:BIO refers. (aeropagitica) 22:17, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Improvised Comedy Ents
Nomination for Deletion Non-encyclopedically notable student society which was only established in 2003. Cambridge has a strong comedy tradition, but this just not comparable to the Cambridge Footlights, or equivalents at say, U.Chicago or even Bristol. The original creator of the article has put up an pre-emptive defence of the society here - I encourage people to read it. My rebuttal is that while Cambridge may be famous for comedy, ICE has only beeen around for 3 years and is unlikely to have achieved a remarkable level of fame (if it has, then show us); coverage in student newspapers and stalls at the fresher's fair are not acceptable or credible indicators of encyclopedic notability (and Wikipedia is not a campus info booth). An equivalence is also claimed with the Oxford Imps, but this Dark Blue group appears to be significantly more accomplished than ICE (and I'm not very sure Imps is encyclopedically notable either). Bwithh 22:59, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete - hundreds of schools have comedy programs, groups, etc. If there was any references other than from ther website of the unofficial school newspaper, it might be noteworthy enough to keep.  Chris Kreider 23:15, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep - There are many similar articles on the Clubs and societies of the University of Cambridge category and many articles linked from List of social activities at the University of Cambridge which are at least as notable. If ICE is not notable enough to be included then surely the Cambridge University History Society, as an example, is equally non notable as are most of the societies listed on the above articles. --RichW 23:49, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Yeah, there are number of societies (though not that many, unless we're going to assess each college boat club) on that list which should be nom'd for afd discussion too Bwithh 23:53, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I count 5 societies on the list which are ripe for afd, excluding the boat clubs (which i'm not sure about). Plus a couple of others on the category page. I'll (or someone else) get around to them at some point. Bwithh 23:57, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per above comments. This group is simply not sufficiently notable at this point in time.  That may well change in a few years if a member goes on to some kind of fame or the group gets media coverage beyond the campus.  -Kubigula (ave) 21:43, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
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