Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sheffield University Orienteering Club


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The result was delete. I don't see a consensus to merge. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 06:47, 19 October 2021 (UTC)

Sheffield University Orienteering Club

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I am unable to find independent notability of this orienteering club, although some alum are notable. There's no indication they're notable because of their particiaption here. ATD considered include merges to: Sheffield University (no, open also to Sheffield Hallam students) and British Orienteering Federation (not mentioned, nor are the others do DUE a factor). Star  Mississippi  18:29, 1 October 2021 (UTC)
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 * Merge to: Sheffield University. It is a club of that university. The fact that it is open to students of another university in Sheffield is not relevant. --Bduke (talk) 00:22, 2 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete. Student clubs are almost invariably non-notable - most colleges and universities have a wide range of clubs, and these generally provide outlets for student interests, but make no impact on broader society or on particular fields of human endeavour. For this club to be notable, we would need to see proof that it has something special - a consistent over-representation in UK teams over many years, or consistent innovation in approaches to orienteering, or something - anything - that would make it stand out. The references do not provide evidence of such notability. There is little here that can reasonably be merged into Sheffield University. RomanSpa (talk) 11:53, 3 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. Necrothesp (talk) 10:04, 6 October 2021 (UTC)


 * Delete and oppose merge per RomanSpa.4meter4 (talk) 02:34, 9 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Oppose and oppose merge.Janero (talk) 21:38, 12 October 2021 (UTC)  As the original author of this page my automatic reaction is oppose deletion.  In the UK there are only two really strong university orienteering clubs - Sheffield and Edinburgh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh_University_Orienteering_Club  They are almost always in the top two for UK University championships and strongly complete at a national level.  Both pages have similar formats and are probably the only reference for some of the history of the clubs - current students don't really like documenting history.  It makes the citability of the page hard, and my recollection is that Wikipedia isn't supposed to be the a source itself but has become it perhaps.  It does appear however that few of the UK orienteering clubs are represented here (only 5 of the 100+ UK clubs are listed in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Orienteering_clubs_in_the_United_Kingdom) and if ShUOC isn't notable then none of them will be.    I would oppose merge as little value in merging in with the main university page as it would not be of interest of visitors of that page.
 * Delete WP:RUNOFTHEMILL club, lacks in-depth coverage in independent WP:RS. MrsSnoozyTurtle 03:58, 16 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Conditional delete. While the club isn't run of the mill, per Janero, I'm afraid that the page is original research almost entirely. I understand that it's a concern that it may perhaps be valuable, but in that case, I advise you to copy the information elsewhere. As it stands, there simply isn't any coverage in reliable sources on it. Dege31 (talk) 15:35, 17 October 2021 (UTC)
 * However, I think just all associated sources should be added and then we see where we stand. Dege31 (talk) 16:03, 17 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:ORG, agree the information may be valuable but does not meet standards for notability. Vanteloop (talk) 13:33, 18 October 2021 (UTC)


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