Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kappa Delta Sorority House Washington State University


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The result was delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 08:56, 7 March 2020 (UTC)

Kappa Delta Sorority House Washington State University

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Bringing to AfD following contested PROD. While the article does have a number of items in its bibliography, none establish notability for the building, and the article itself is more real estate listing than article. Analysis of the sources in the bibliography: A BEFORE search did not turn up any significant coverage of this building - the best I found was a couple of news articles with tangential mentions (i.e. "such-and-such incident happened this weekend at Kappa Delta Sorority House"). Courtesy ping as contestor (contester?) creffett (talk) 02:03, 29 February 2020 (UTC)
 * "A Century of Greek Life at WSU" doesn't mention the building and only mentions the sorority in a list.
 * "Historical Sketch of the State College of Washington" does mention the history of where the sorority lived, but as far as I could tell from skimming, it doesn't go into more detail than street addresses.
 * "City of Pullman College Hill Neighborhood Study" mentions neither the sorority nor the house.
 * The discussion with the sorority president probably is one of the main sources of the article, but is not something that establishes notability.
 * "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form" only establishes that the sorority is near a neighborhood on the NRHP. If this building were on the NRHP or were listed as part of a historic neighborhood, I'd accept that as a claim of significance (if not notability), but that form doesn't mention this building.
 * "Sigma Tau Chapter at Washington State University" is the sorority's website and probably another major source. As a non-independent source, it doesn't establish notability.
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Fraternities and sororities-related deletion discussions. creffett (talk) 02:03, 29 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Washington-related deletion discussions. creffett (talk) 02:03, 29 February 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom, no indication of notability with significant coverage of the subject. It appears every item in Category:Fraternity and sorority houses is in fact individually listed on the NRHP, and this one is not even a contributing property in the nearby historic district, so I see no reason to presume its notability among the thousands of Greek houses in the country. Reywas92Talk 02:48, 29 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. --BonkHindrance (talk) 16:33, 29 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete I should also note that several other WSU-related articles have been created recently with dubious notability and should be reviewed.  Sounder Bruce  23:02, 29 February 2020 (UTC)


 * Comment FWIW, i reviewed the linked NRHP nomination form for the College Hill Historic District and confirm that the district includes most of Howard St., which apparently was the original location of this sorority, but does not include the Kappa Delta sorority building on the north corner of Colorado and Ruby streets. The map on page 60 of the NRHP document, compared to Google maps, makes this clear. --Doncram (talk) 06:03, 2 March 2020 (UTC)


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