Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Two Dickinson Street Co-op
or alternatively '''merge'''. I originally added the article because leaving out discussion of the student coops misrepresents an important aspect of Princeton University. Eating clubs have been called Princeton's "Peculiar Institution" (see, e.g. The Rule of Four, Page 88), and in the late 1970's student activism, including an occupation of the administration building, led to the creation of 2D as an alternative. Most of the sources currently cited in the article are from The Daily Princetonian, which, as you will note from the Wikipedia article, has a circulation of approximately 8,000 and a budget of $400,000, which indicates that it is distributed well beyond the campus community (in addition to online readers). One of the other references, Princeton Alumni Weekly, has a circulation of 65,000 http://www.princeton.edu/~paw/advertising.html source. Certainly many niche Wikipedia articles cite sources with comparable distribution that are considered  -- note both publications are independent and meet the definition of secondary source (and in fact have been used for historical scholarship). 2D has also been featured in a best-selling novel and is included in other books on Princeton, and is at least mentioned in passing in a New York Times article. 2D was also the subject of at least two anthropology studies/papers, although I'm not sure how to find the citations for them. It will take a little time to build out the article and provide proper sources, but I believe it is already better sourced at least than most of the articles about the Eating clubs. I don't think the "Pokemon argument" argument applies here, as Eating clubs and the cooperative alternative are probably the most important indicators of the socioeconomic dynamics of Princeton University, which itself I think we can all agree is quite notable
— User:Ajkessel, 02:28, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:RS (Wikipedia:Reliable sources)