Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Providence College Debate Society


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The result was delete. RL0919 (talk) 01:28, 5 September 2019 (UTC)

Providence College Debate Society

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This article was created by, who has only one edit other than to this article and that single edit was about this article. it cannot be a coincidence that for most of its history, the president in 2016 was identified as Edward Walrod.

This came to my attention via OTRS (ticket:2019082810009596). there's no particular need to see that ticket — it basically identifies a dispute about whether Edward Walrod or Noah Gemma was president in 2016. Notice that the last two or three edits relate to that disagreement.

While attempting to look into reliable sources to determine who was the president in that year, I noticed that the article was tagged for having no sources in February 2017. 17 months later, it still has no sources. I did a brief search for sources and came up empty. (An Internet search identifies a few hits but some are entries in a listing, one is a placeholder for a possible entry, and of course a Wikipedia link.) I didn't find anything of substance.

Needless to say, not a single sentence in the article is supported by a source. Without sources, I don't see any other option besides deletion. S Philbrick (Talk)  21:57, 28 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - non-notable college society that fails WP:GNG. Nthep (talk) 22:01, 28 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. Icewhiz (talk) 09:27, 29 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Education-related deletion discussions. Icewhiz (talk) 09:27, 29 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Rhode Island-related deletion discussions. Icewhiz (talk) 09:27, 29 August 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete - the only coverage I can find is like this which is an article in the college's newspaper. -- Whpq (talk) 14:26, 3 September 2019 (UTC)


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