Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/NYLUG


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The result was   Keep - nomination withdrawn (non-admin closure). Whpq (talk) 14:35, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

NYLUG

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Delete This is a local club with no evidence of notability. No sources are cited, and my searching has failed to produce independent sources. The article was previously deleted, but was re-created in substantially the same form. In my opinion the article qualifies for another speedy deletion, but a discussion may be a better way of dealing with it, in view of the possibility of further re-creations. JamesBWatson (talk) 07:57, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Nomination withdrawn The quality of the sources is not as good as I would ideally like, but there are sources there, and I feel the organisation has enough prominence to justify keeping the article. JamesBWatson (talk) 10:32, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

The previous deletion was because I cut and pasted the "About NYLUG" info from their homepage and it was autoflagged as potential plagiarism. The editor who deleted it, suggested I recreate the article, but write new text, and that he felt that NYLUG was worthy of an article. (On IRC.) (He said it was policy to wipe pages with that autoflag, to reduce the potential for infringing text to stay in the article).

I noted there is a Wikipedia category for "Linux User Groups" so that would suggest articles on such organizations are welcome and expected. Category:Linux User Groups and loosely based the structure of the initial NYLUG article on a random sampling of those articles.

Here are a few links that I believe would qualify as citations, if they would help, and I can probably talk to people who know more aout NYLUG's history to add them to the article. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/01/07/25/1632246/Still-in-DMCA-Prison http://news.slashdot.org/story/01/01/25/2320255/Ask-David-Korn-About-ksh-And-More http://tech.slashdot.org/story/00/07/17/1820240/Judge-Conflicted-Interest-in-MPAA2600-DeCSS-Case http://yro.slashdot.org/story/00/07/17/1130233/NYLUG-Demonstration-At-DVD-Trial http://openideals.org/2009/02/23/eweek-coverage-of-nylug-android-event/

Of note, NYLUG is the oldest Linux User group in the greater New York Area according to http://www.luny.org/ Brandorr (talk) 14:26, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
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 * Keep We have a cat for LUGs, and I'm sure NY is a big enough town to support a notable one. The rest is copyediting. Andy Dingley (talk) 15:46, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep From amongst the 6,500 results for "nylug -site:nylug.org", how about The Linux Gazette as an independent source that NYLUG has been going strong for at least over a decade? It's bout a presentation on Beowulf one of the creators gave in the 90s. :) http://tldp.org/LDP/LGNET/issue42/adler.becker.html --Danny Rathjens (talk) 18:04, 28 June 2010 (UTC)  (biased typo-fixer of the article in question.)
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