Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Phi Pi Rho


 * 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 of the debate was delete. Kirill Lokshin 05:49, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

Phi Pi Rho
plus redirect at Phipirho.

Fraternity founded three months ago with three chapters so far. I have not seen any notability criteria for frats so please advise. But killing a grizzly with bare teeth sounds like nonsense to me. -- RHaworth 02:48, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, I'd say, but I don't know enough about fraternities...what are the rules on them here? Only big ones?  If this is to be kept, the fake stuff needs to be taken out. Devotchka 03:00, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to List of social fraternities and sororities --anetode¹ ² ³ 04:10, 29 October 2005 (UTC) Delete per Metropolitan90's assertion of unverifiability --anetode¹ ² ³ 04:22, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I support articles about national fraternities ... but according to this fraternity's web site, they have only three members and one pledge.  The fathers of the fraternity described in the article (Father Phi, Father Pi, and Father Rho) are just the three members wearing fake beards.  The web site doesn't even state what college the fraternity is associated with, although their address implies it's the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (with no reference to the supposed two other chapters), but SDSMT does not have Phi Pi Rho on its list of student organizations.  Delete as non-notable attempt at humor. --Metropolitan90 04:11, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
 * In any event, I've cleaned it up some so that the grizzly bear story is represented as the fraternity's "legend" of its founding rather than a factual history. --Metropolitan90 04:21, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, nn, unverifiable, maybe hoax.--Kewp (t) 09:26, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per Metropolitan90, unless demonstrated to be verifiable and well-known at least in Rapid City. (Newspaper articles?) Also, their contact address is a gmail account, not confidence-inspiring. "1619 Kellogg Place," even without a city, gets zero Google hits, although both Google Maps and Yahoo Maps do seem to be able to find it. Re verification: if I had a phone number for the fraternity, I could do a reverse lookup with Anywho and see what name and address it turns up. There is no (nonprofit) corporation named Phi Pi Rho chartered in Indiana. If I knew the state in which it is chartered and the name it is chartered under, that too would be easy to verify. It is easy to verify that Alpha Chi Sigma, another fraternity listed on the SDSMT website, is in fact chartered as a nonprofit corporation, once one knows that it is in the State of Indiana. Dpbsmith (talk) 00:06, 31 October 2005 (UTC)


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