User talk:Shenki~enwiki

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Adelaide University Engineering Society[edit]

Hello Shenki, it is 'very well done, and it is unfortunate because it seems very likely that this article will be deleted because the subject is considered to be non-notable. (Most articles are written a lot less neatly (layout), and have many spelling and grammatical errors). There is a policy WP:AFDP which says that clubs at universities and schools are not notable -this implies that simply being a club is not-notable, and to show notability, you would have to prove how this sticks out above other clubs, eg,
- Notoriety: Criminal/Fraudulent/Drunken rampages, etc, activity perpetrated by club members (I hope this is not the case, eg MIT Blackjack Team)
- Social Impact: A large number of members, or how the club has had a positive (or negative) impact on a significant portion of its members (eg, educational/professional services) or if it has initiated change within the university. (see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Math Is Fun for an initial piece of advertising that was later rectified and saved.)
- Academic Impact: If the club organizes teams which compete in engineering competitions against other universities (what is the AUES record of success in formula SAE?), and has done so with success (see Harvard University, some of their clubs have wiki-pages; their Maths Club does not seem to have one yet, but given their domination of Putnam Competition, and their concerted efforts to recruit and train maths students in regular meetings, they would most likely be entitled to a page)

If you can show these things, then it would be worthwhile dropping in to the talk pages of those who have voted delete and requesting them to reconsider their vote. Note that the deletion process is not actually democratic, as the following is an excerpt which is often stuck on AFD pages

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Getting friends, or sockpuppets to create heaps of accounts will not work, because votes by accounts with little previous activity will be discounted by administrators as branch-stacking. It also tends to raise their ire and may damage borderline cases (eg, see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Superrooters, which was clearly rubbish; a rather borderline case is Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Louisiana Baptist University people (second nomination) and Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Jason Gastrich for what happened to the offender). A lot of the people voting are from Australia, so if you go to WP:AWNB and interact with them, they will be more likely to give you the benefit of the doubt - their opinions count for more. You could also join WP:ADEL to interact with other Adelaide people - it will give you more credibility - I've noticed that a few prominent Australian editors and administrators have written (good, informative and concise) articles about rather obscure (but historically influential) settlers, convicts and Aboriginal warriors which have been saved because of their user credibility and the esteem in which they are held - quite possibly identical articles by newbies could be junked. cj, Capitalistroadster and Longhair are Australian admins and JzG is a UK admin. Most of the others are regulars on AFD, WP:RCP and WP:WC which gets them a good reputation also.

I'm not sure if this is you or not (a personal webpage) because there is an inexact similarity there to your userpage, but if that's the case, then we were in the 2003 Integration and Analysis class of Mathai Varghese. Oh, and I went to high school with Craig Browett at Glenunga International High School who appears to be one of the leading figures in AUES as well.

Best regards, Blnguyen 06:39, 9 February 2006 (UTC).[reply]

I have changed my vote to keep and cleanup. The additional information on notable members and publications changed my vote. However, I still believe that the emphasis on pub crawls and other social activities should be toned down to perhaps a paragraph. Similarly, the Executive Committee should not name officeholders as there is inevitably a massive turnover. Well done on the article which is very well-presented. Capitalistroadster 09:41, 9 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Howdy Shenki. Firstly, welcome to Wikipedia! I noticed you've noted your intention to participate in the WikiProject Adelaide – I hope your experience with AfD doesn't deter you from being bold and creating articles about Adelaide. Secondly, I'm probably not the best person to ask about the deletion processes (I'm one of many who sees AfD to be deeply unhealthy). If you'd like know more about AfD, Capitalistroadster might be a better person to ask (who I see you've already posted a comment to). With regards to Adelaide University Engineering Society: although I could be persuaded as to its notability, it's a close call. The article itself, though you've improved it greatly, retains a promotional tone. Its focus on pub crawls and alike detracts from whatever encyclopædic merit the article may have. I'll keep watch and may in time change my stance. Happy editing, --cj | talk 10:57, 9 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

AUES[edit]

If you want to try again without the pubcrawls, ephemera (current membership and committee) and so on, and write a decent short article based on essentially the top half of the article as deleted, I will move the deleted page to your user space for you to work on until you're ready. The article was reposted almost immediately after deletion with only the crap, so before you copy it back to the main space it'd be worth preparing the ground a bit and also waiting a short while. The stuff you added on notable past members (notable in the sense of having Wikipedia articles) is worth having, if those people have made comments re the society elsewhere. What makes a society notable is not who's been a member, but how much they attribute to the society later (see Cambridge Footlights, whose members are not only among the funniest people ever to have lived, they also attributed much of their success to the start and the contacts they made at Footlights). Very, very few university societies are actually notable, b ut I think you made a reasonable case for this one which was somewhat overwhelmed by generic student idiocy which fails to distinguish it from every other student club in the world. I guess there are student clubs that don't have pubcrawls, but not many :-) Just zis Guy, you know? ^[T]/_[C] 18:22, 15 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

OK, now at User:Shenki/Adelaide University Engineering Society. Note that I have removed the ephemera and generic student society nonsense, and left the good bits which you added. If you want this moved back when you've given it some further polish, let me know. Just zis Guy, you know? ^[T]/_[C]

09:11, 16 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Meetup on 24th August 2006[edit]

Apologies if you're already aware of this, but the Inaugural Adelaide Meetup will take place on Thursday 24th of August at Brougham Place Uniting Church, thanks to Alex Sims. Please indicate if you will attend or not.

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Shotpointblank[edit]

A tag has been placed on Shotpointblank, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article seems to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable (see the guidelines for notability here). If you can indicate why the subject of this article is notable, you may contest the tagging. To do this, please affix the template {{hangon}} to the page and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself.

Please read the criteria for speedy deletion (specifically, article #7) and our general biography criteria. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Elomis 08:51, 30 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Meetup on 23rd April 2007[edit]

Hi Shenki,

Apologies if you're already aware of this, but I'd like to let you know that the second Adelaide Meetup will take place on Monday 23rd of April at ZUMA Caffe, 56 Gouger Street, Adelaide. The meeting is at 7:30am for breakfast with Wikipedia founder Jimbo Wales. Please see Wikipedia:Meetup/Adelaide/Meetup 2 for more details and indicate if you might attend.

Thanks,–cj | talk 13:54, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Adelaide Wikimeetup 3[edit]

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Hi Shenki - we're planning a third meetup in Adelaide sometime in the coming weeks, and would love to have you there. If you can, please help decide a location, a date and a time here. Thanks! ~ Riana ⁂ 12:31, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Adelaide Wikimeetup 3[edit]

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Hi Shenki - after some planning we've decided to hold the third Adelaide Wikimeetup on Sunday, 17th February, 2008. The meeting will be held at Billy Baxter's in Rundle Mall at 11:30AM. Further details and directions are available on the meetup page. Please RSVP here by 20:00UTC on 15th February 2008 (that's 6AM Saturday for our time zone) so that we can inform the restaurant about numbers. Hope to see you there!

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Adelaide Meetup 22 – Friday 6 March 2020[edit]

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Proposed deletion of Aquinas College (University of Adelaide)[edit]

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