Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Southern Ivy League


 * 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. - Mailer Diablo 11:48, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

(Note the later related discussion at Articles for deletion/Southern Ivies. This note aded to avoid confussion. DES (talk) 21:29, 8 December 2005 (UTC))

Southern Ivy League
Although it is qualified as "colloquial term," this term appears to have been invented by the author. While I can imagine colloquialisms like "Southern Ivy" or "Southern Ivies," the very nature of a League is formal, and no formal relationship exists between any of these schools, as the article itself mentions. Furthermore, unlike Public Ivies, Little Ivies, Jesuit Ivy and other terms that derive from the Ivy League, this term appears to have no historic context or documentation to support it besides the subjective opinions of contributing Wikipedians 129.105.35.219 20:48, 1 November 2005 (UTC)


 * Delete per nomination. - 129.105.35.219 20:49, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. No Google hits; no formal association among the schools. | Keithlaw 20:57, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete if its a coined term, its used in very, very, very limited circles. Stu 22:16, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete it is not a formal association 160.39.243.196 16:40, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Neologism, probably invented, no evidence presented of real or widespread use e.g. by guidance counselors. Not only are no sources given for this subjective list of "prestigious" Southern schools, I note that no sources for the "Magnolia League" mentioned in the article are given, either. This is really just a subjective list of good schools together with a proposal for their promotion. Neither is encyclopedic. Dpbsmith (talk) 20:06, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete I have heard this term used in the South, but not with the consistency or frequency necessary to warrant an article. Xoloz 22:35, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - This is a widely used term in Southern academia. It is acknowledged to be a colloquial term in the article. Just because some other people haven't heard of it, it's no less valid. I know the Magnolia League was a proposal in the mid-to-late '90's. Check with the student government archives at Emory, Vanderbilt, Duke, etc. I don't think the author made it up, because I have been hearing it for the past 20 years. Why delete a phrase that many Southern wiki-users know? That smacks of regionalism.
 * Delete. Unsourced and unverified, apparent neologism, smacks of boosterism, apparently unencyclopedic. -- Rbellin|Talk 05:44, 6 November 2005 (UTC)


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