Deletion of The Irving Literary Society

Comment: per  and per general precedent against articles on student clubs at a single school.  Also per Voceditenore, who notes that many of the primary claims are outright fictitious or grossly misleading
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:ORG)

Comment: per DGG. Some of the sources seem to be reliable and independent, so there may just be enough here to meet 
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG)

Comment: I tend to agree with you. I'm wondering if a solution might be to '''|userfy''' this page and ask the article's creator to work on Cornell University literary societies, researching and adding material documenting the other societies as well, before moving it into article space. There's quite an editorial army now assembled on Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/The Irving Literary Society.;-) I'm not sure if they're interested in writing about stuff that doesn't pertain to their fraternity, but if they were, we'd get a potentially valuable article
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Userfication (WP:USERFY)

Comment: Early on there were some editors who wanted the article deleted primarily on content issues, some of which were not trivial, i.e. the suspected plagiarism. One editor opined that it was a hoax.  However, the majority of the discussion has been about whether there are sufficient reliable sources available to establish its notability as an organization.The only press coverage of the Society (also called "Association" in some sources) has been in the Cornell student newspapers and the local Ithaca papers. The ''New York Times'' archives go back to this period, but have no coverage of it under either name. With the exception of http://dlxs2.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=cuda;cc=cuda;q1=Irving;rgn=full%20text;idno=cera003;didno=cera003;view=image;seq=107 this, http://dlxs2.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=cuda;cc=cuda;q1=Irving;rgn=full%20text;idno=cera002;didno=cera002;view=image;seq=43 this and possibly http://dlxs2.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=cuda;cc=cuda;q1=Irving;rgn=full%20text;idno=cera001;didno=cera001;view=image;seq=69 this from the ''Cornell Era'' (student paper) and http://fultonhistory.com/Newpapers%20Disk2/Ithaca%20NY%20Ithaca/Ithaca%20NY%20Ithaca%201868%20-%201870%20pdf/Newspaper%20Ithaca%20NY%20Ithaca%201868%20-%201870%20-%200154.PDF#xml=http://fultonhistory.com/dtSearch/dtisapi6.dll?cmd=getpdfhits&u=ffffffffdc7c3a4a&DocId=1819778&Index=Z%3a%2fFulton%20Historical&HitCount=5&hits=44b+45a+79c+b57+bec+&SearchForm=C%3a%5cinetpub%5cwwwroot%5cFulton%5fNew%5fform%2ehtml&.pdf this from ''The Ithacan'' (local paper) which discusses the Society's celebration of Washington Irving's birthday, the remaining coverage has been trivial (Society announcements, mentions of it in various obituaries of its members, etc.). In terms of books, there were brief mentions of the Society in conjunction with other literary societies at Cornell in its early days in  http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=jUu9pDRhWjkC&pg=PA138&dq=Irving+association+Cornell&hl=en&ei=D-HiS4m5AdqWsQaD54w_&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CD0Q6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=Irving%20association%20Cornell&f=false ''A history of Cornell'' by Morris Bishop (1962);  http://www.archive.org/stream/cornelluniversit03hewe#page/4/mode/2up/search/Irving ''Cornell University, a history'' by Waterman Thomas Hewett, (1905) pp. 4-6; and http://www.archive.org/stream/storyhistoricalo00poolrich#page/xlviii/mode/2up ''A story historical of Cornell University'' by Murray Poole (1916). One other source offered which mentioned the Society was http://books.google.com/books?lr=&id=JYylHhmoNZ4C&q=%22Irving+literary+Society%22#v=snippet&q=%22Irving%20literary%20Society%22&f=false ''Lee de Forest and the fatherhood of radio'' by James A. Hijiya (1992) p.35. However this source was misinterpeted. If you read the actual page, it refers to the Irving Literary Society at de Forrest's prep school Northfield Mount Hermon School|Mount Hermon.Three editors on this page felt this was sufficient to keep it as an independent article. Some felt it should be kept but only as a pruned down addition to other relevant articles, not on its own. Several more found the sources were not sufficient to establish notability per  and felt it should deleted. Note that there are also '''10''' editors all opining "keep" whose comments were moved to Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/The Irving Literary Society by an administrator for reasons described http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=Wikipedia%3AArticles+for+deletion%2FThe+Irving+Literary+Society here and at the top of this page. I encourage editors here to also look at those comments
Stance: merge
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:ORG)

Comment: I wasn't sure I was going to take part in this, but I thought that another comment from someone who has been around a while should be made. It's obvious that the society existed, but that isn't sufficient for it to warrant an article. I've seen no evidence that the society itself passes . A short mention without all the bells and whistles in an article about Cornell's literary societies would be fine, so long as it is proportional to its significance
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:ORG)

Comment: to Cornell University.  Add a mention to Cornell University that provides basic coverage of this society and gives it prominence appropriate to its actual importance.  The Irving Literary Society is not |notable, so it should not have its own article, but it is appropriate to mention it somewhere on Wikipedia.  Also, in view of the nature this AfD, I think a redirect is a superior outcome to a deletion because I wouldn't want someone searching for The Irving Literary Society to find a redlink that encourages them to write an article
Stance: merge
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:N)