Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of clubs and societies of Royal College, Colombo


 * 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. Keep votes are unconvincing because none provide sources that discuss the subject of "clubs and societies of Royal College, Colombo", as required per WP:LISTN. Sources that discuss individual clubs and societies, while great for individual articles on the clubs, don't support a list article like this one. ‑Scottywong | converse _ 17:02, 25 October 2012 (UTC)

List of clubs and societies of Royal College, Colombo

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Pure WP:SCHOOLCRUFT. Clubs at an elementary, junior, and senior high school do not deserve their own page. Note that I'm not even proposing a merge, because the majority of this isn't even important enough to be listed on the main article (Royal College, Colombo), and it's almost entirely unsourced anyway. Qwyrxian (talk) 22:57, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Might be best to expand this AFD to some or all of the other contents of Category:Clubs and societies of the Royal College Colombo. postdlf (talk) 02:21, 12 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Keep: Following refs indicate the level of significance of most of these societies in Sri Lanka;
 * Radio Club of Royal College -, ,
 * Philatelic Club of Royal College -, , ,
 * Interact Club of Royal College -, , ,
 * Astronomical Society of Royal College -
 * Royal College General Knowledge Club - ,
 * I do agree some of these societies should be removed but ones such as these have a national level recognition as mentioned in the refs provided. Therefore the article should be kept but modified. Cossde (talk) 12:54, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
 * If those clubs are notable in a Wikipedia sense, then they should have Wikipedia entries. The concept of "clubs at Royal Columbo" is not a notable concept, and thus it should not have an article. Please note that when you consider creating those individual articles, they must be discused in detail, not merely mentioned as having one event or another in a newspaper article. Qwyrxian (talk) 02:17, 13 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Lack of a Wikipedia entry does not mean they aren't notable. Just no one took the time to write one.   D r e a m Focus  08:45, 13 October 2012 (UTC)
 * You've misunderstood my point, Dream Focus. I'm actually saying that the clubs Cossde lists above should probably have their own articles. What I'm saying we shouldn't have is some sort of catch all article on the concept of "clubs at school X" unless reliable sources have discussed the concept of "clubs at school X". This is a well established requirement for List articles, as explained in WP:LISTN and in numerous AfDs. What we should have is articles on each notable club, individually, then a list in the main article that has links to those individual articles. Qwyrxian (talk) 08:50, 13 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. — Frankie (talk) 18:06, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
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 * Keep And just have agreed upon criteria for inclusion, and eliminate things that don't belong on the list.  D r e a m Focus  08:45, 13 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Deleteper nom. Keeping a cut down list would only provide a focus for non notable cruft.--Charles (talk) 18:52, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 23:24, 18 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Merge and redirect to Royal_College,_Colombo, removing all unreferenced entries. Stuartyeates (talk) 03:31, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete. I find no references to these clubs and societies as a group, as required under WP:LISTN. The sources cited above are in any case uniformly trivial in nature, and I don't think they're enough to satisfy the significant coverage requirement under WP:GNG. A search turns up little else. --Batard0 (talk) 13:39, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
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