Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/University of Kent Students' Union

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 was merge to University of Kent. —SW— ^chatter 18:01, 30 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

University of Kent Students' Union

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Not a notable organization; few student unions are. A couple of mentions in the press related to demos etc. don't add up to notability according to the WP:GNG. Drmies (talk) 22:04, 6 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Keep or possibly merge into the article about the University. I am not sure what precedents have been set on other AfDs on student unions but this one is a long established organisation and I am sure that more reference material can be found. We need to keep coverage of the union although I can't be sure if it should be in its own article or not. The article could do with work. It focusses too much on the current trading activities of the union and not enough on its history. There is also some peacock wording that has to go. --DanielRigal (talk) 23:15, 6 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 12:51, 7 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 12:51, 7 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. I actually used to be a member of this organisation, but frankly unless they're particularly historic I don't think students' unions are notable. Any useful info should be merged into the university article. -- Necrothesp (talk) 17:04, 12 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:01, 13 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, —Tom Morris (talk) 00:05, 20 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Keep The case for deletion seems to be at heart, a political one. A value judgement on the overall significance of students' unions has been made by drmies that I simply do not share. I would agree that some of the insignifica should be stripped from this article (how many coaches were paid for to send students to a particular demonstration etc). This page should be edited to reflect the history, key individuals and achievements of the organisation. Some reflection of the current activities should be made, but without acting as advertising.

ntfc2 (talk) 13:26, 21 March 2012

Selective merge to University of Kent, per WP:ATD. Mentioned at [1][2][3]. -- Trevj (talk) 11:43, 30 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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.