Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The January Series


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The result was   delete. Courcelles 21:47, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

The January Series

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Non-notable local lecture series at Calvin College. No third part sources to establish notability. Having notable speakers does not make the lecture series notable. The article is 100% unreferenced, which makes it totally Original Research. GrapedApe (talk) 17:20, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete or Merge with Calvin College entry. This is one of three similar articles that should probably be dealt with together - they're all minor events put on by Calvin College. See also Festival of Faith and Music and Festival of Faith and Writing. All three of these are listed under Notable events and all three have been spawned as stand-alone articles. --Quartermaster (talk) 17:38, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Add River City Improv to the list of minor groups/events spawned from Calvin College. River City Improv is also currently undergoing an AfD discussion. --Quartermaster (talk) 17:52, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Add Calvin Theatre Company as a fifth minor, non-notable Calvin College group up for AfD. --Quartermaster (talk) 11:48, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
 * I'd vote against deletion. It did win the best college lectureship series several times, and is probably unique in that it provides a lecture by a significant speaker each  day for three weeks. Most of the information probably comes from the series web site, so it's not really original research. Bytwerk (talk) 21:39, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
 * As far as I can see, those claims of eminence are not being bolstered with any evidence whatsoever. If the NYT covers this, and some reputable agency is actually running a "Best College Lectureship Series" contest, I'd like to see that properly cited. Otherwise, notability is not being established. --Quartermaster (talk) 11:54, 16 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions.  —• Gene93k (talk) 23:20, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete all colleges host lectures, and I'm not sure I see anything that makes sense to merge. Andrew Lenahan -  St ar bli nd  23:55, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete without merge this is not worth covering even in the main article. Nergaal (talk) 15:22, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.