Talk:Tau Alpha

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	Tau Alpha is part of the Fraternities and Sororities WikiProject, an effort to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to Greek Life on the Wikipedia. This includes but is not limited to International social societies, local organizations, honor societies, and their members. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, visit the project page, where you can join the project, and/or contribute to the discussion.Fraternities and SororitiesWikipedia:WikiProject Fraternities and SororitiesTemplate:WikiProject Fraternities and SororitiesFraternities and Sororities articles
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Contested deletion[edit]

This article should not be speedily deleted for lack of asserted importance because it is important.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Castor-troy.1932 (talk • contribs)

@Castor-troy.1932: Could you elaborate on why it is important. Understand that being important to you or to your fraternity brothers is not the same as being notable. If you can provide evidence that this organization has been the subject of significant coverage in independent media, as required by Wikipedia inclusion guidelines, please do so. WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 15:23, 23 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Contested deletion[edit]

This article should not be speedily deleted for lack of asserted importance because it does not violate any copyrights and is verifiable. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Castor-troy.1932 (talk • contribs) 02:03, 24 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

References[edit]

Right now the only one of the references that actually mentions Tau Alpha in the Article is from Fraternity to Fratricide, and while that's a good reference, most of what is here isn't from the article and is unsuitable.Naraht (talk) 19:16, 30 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Added a few references mostly for being alumni.Naraht (talk) 20:35, 30 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

General Status of Article[edit]

I've left the founding section alone for now, I need to figure out what can possibly be kept and what simply is written in a good format for an Encyclopedia.Naraht (talk) 20:35, 30 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Notability problem[edit]

I have restored the notability flag after someone deleted it. Our guide for notability of organizations is at WP:NORG, and this article does not currently match the standard there. Yes, I know that the Frat project has made up its own list of notability guidelines, but those guidelines do not look to sit well with the larger project. (The idea that a fraternity should be considered notable if its existed for 10 years and has a website would seem ludicrous applied to anything else.) -- Nat Gertler (talk) 04:55, 12 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

NatGertler Feel free to bring that fact up at the WP. I'm on there and that combination does seem like it would be unreasonable. Additionally, the WP is *quite* aware that getting info on the Philippine F&S is *Much* more difficult. I consider myself somewhat of an inclusionist, but have voted to delete pages for *several* groups in the Philippines.Naraht (talk) 12:57, 12 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I have brought the general concern with the WP-generated notability criteria up at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Fraternities_and_Sororities/Watchlist#Standards_for_WP:N_(Notability), which is both the most recent thread on that page and a discussion that was last posted to over 2.5 years ago, so I'm not expecting to make much motion there. -- Nat Gertler (talk) 14:05, 12 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]