Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Glasgow Rowing Club

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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 Keep per article sourcing. Keeper | 76 21:07, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Glasgow Rowing Club

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Fails WP:ORG - Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ contribs 12:39, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

There is very little Glasgow Sport information in Wikipedia and almost nothing about rowing in Glasgow. The history of the sport in the city is the clubs. Currently only GUBC is listed. GRCSecretary (talk) 13:06, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

  • Speedy delete - was speedy deleted before. The current form is still the same as the previous one. Dekisugi (talk) 13:26, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Speedy delete and Salt. Hopeless. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 14:21, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Comment. I can't say that I think this is worth keeping, but I don't think it should be salted just yet. That's too extreme.--h i s s p a c e r e s e a r c h 14:43, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

Guys, you don't give much encouragement. When I look at 'Glasgow - sport' the picture is all wrong. As long as you stop entries dead in their tracks, so it will continue.GRCSecretary (talk) 15:06, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
I can't see any difference intrinsically between the Glasgow article and (e.g.) Molesey Boat Club GRCSecretary (talk) 15:17, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

  • I agree that GRCSecretary has a point (but also a WP:COI from the username). This should not be speedily deleted, let the AfD run its full course so that third-party sources might possibly be found. See WP:N.--h i s s p a c e r e s e a r c h 17:34, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep. GRCSecretary does appear to have a conflict of interest, but he makes a valuable point. This club and the ones that proceeded it have a long history and appears to be an important rowing club in Scotland. It needs sources. I have asked the opinion of the good folks at Wikipedia:WikiProject Rowing. Perhaps they can add the sources which seem very likely to exist. --Bduke (talk) 01:26, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Comment: I nominated this article for deletion due to lack of sources. It should ride out its AfD period to give the original contributor as well as other users more time to come up with their history and notability through WP:RS. If enough sources are presented and they are verified, I intend on withdrawing this AfD nomination. - Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ contribs 02:30, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep: Rowing clubs are very important in the sport of rowing. Many clubs have members at all levels, from national squad through to novices. That being said I do not know much about this club. Mark this article as a stub and give it time to develop. 09er (talk) 02:51, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep. I just spent a few minutes (a little more than the 2 minutes that the nominator took between article creation and AfD nomination) to look for sources and found some more notable successes of this club, with reliable sources from the Sunday Telegraph and the Sporting Life, to add to what was already in the article. Phil Bridger (talk) 22:07, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep - How does it violate WP:ORG? Stating this does not make it so. I don't know what it was like when you made the nomination, but it has received coverage in reliable secondary sources, and is certainly an organisation of worthy of note in the UK rowing scene, hence I cannot see how it fails the criteria. Fame is not a precondition for notability. Yeti Hunter (talk) 03:59, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
    To view an article's history, you may click the "history" tab of the article. Please keep your comments civil and WP:AGF. Thanks. - Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ contribs 09:38, 25 January 2008 (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.