Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Oxford Hayek Society

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The result was delete. 1ne 07:47, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Oxford Hayek Society

Oxford Hayek Society (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Non-notable student club. Delete. TerriersFan 03:20, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

• Delete - verifiability issues: 99 ghits, no assertion of notability except for having some notable speakers speak at club meetings. MER-C 03:38, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep -- one of the three founders of the society has an article of his own. The university is one of the world's most notable. The speakers, as MER points out, have often been notable. The ideas discussed at this society (whether on approves of them or not) are focal points of political debate in many nations and, for that matter, at wikipedia. All of which seems to me to add up tonotability and a Keep. --Christofurio 15:17, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete: non notable society, herdly referenced outside of Wikipedia[1]. The ideas discussed at my local pub are also "focal points of political debate in many nations", that doesn't make these debate evenings notable. I don't think Tony Blair (or any MP, or any political commentatro of a major newspaper) has said "As suggested by the Oxford Hayek Society, we should...". Otherwise, I would love to have a link for that, as that might be a good reason to keep it. Fram 15:36, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
  • If your local pub was the Oxford University of pubs, maybe you and your mates what debates such matters there could give yourselves a name and get an article. Personally, my local pub is more like the "Slippery Rock University" of pubs, so I'm out of luck. --Christofurio 20:12, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
• Weak Keep, needs a lot of work.--Seadog 19:46, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Just because Oxford is amongst the most notable universities, it does not follow that every society from there is so too. This one in particular is not notable from any evidence in the article, nor that I can find on the net. Seems a good fit for a societies of Oxford page.Obina 20:28, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep only if notability can be asserted. Have any alumni of the club made significant contributions to philosophy? No verifiability issues: Club exists and past events are listed (click through from first link to see that this really is the official website of the club). If consensus is to delete, the sentence in Friedrich Hayek about the club should be expanded to describe the origin and focus of the club. - Samsara (talk · contribs) 01:18, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
• Merge with any one of the founders, or perhaps with Oxford itself; unless there's a major rewrite. Dont' believe that it's notable enough to have it's own article.SkierRMH 03:34, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
• Weak delete - Not that notable, but seems legit. I took the "Hayek on liberty" course there, but swapped it for the "Watching paint dry on the Hayek walls" course... :) Spawn Man 06:17, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete if somebody had been actively working on this article I'd say keep... it has potential, but as such it doesn't assert notability on its own merits. But it's been a month since somebody last worked it. Balloonman 23:21, 15 November 2006 (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.