Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Irving Literary Society
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
— User:Voceditenore, 18:31, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
Stance: merge
Cited policy: WP:ORG (Wikipedia:Notability)