Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Durham University Athletic Union
No vote for now. Students' unions and independent athletic unions need a clear guideline on inherent notability (particularly many of the articles have been created by those less well versed with the requirements on sources et al, and when the first they realise this is an AFD already accumulating delete votes if not already passed it discourages attempts to get the sources in; also any of the potential local sources about them, such as local newspaper coverage, are often not very well archived online), and there seems to be different understandings of what the organisations are in different countries (although I don't deny there are people with both keep and delete views in many of them). Individual AFDs are not a good way to establish precedence on this (especially when terms like "student organisation" get thrown around - that currently redirects to student society and the opening paragraph says to me that a students' union does ''not'' fall under that description - it is not a mere student society but a legally constituted entity). Yes there's  but that is meant to be "some other non-notable article so far existing doesn't mean this one should" and not a rejoinder to the case that individual AFDs often just punch holes in a collection of articles covering subjects of very similar notability or non-notability and overall make the encyclopedia worse for having an inconsistent set than for if it has all, none, or just a select few
— User:Timrollpickering, 21:46, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:OTHERCRAPEXISTS (Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions)