Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Campus Co-operative Residence Incorporated

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The result was delete. Sandstein 09:25, 21 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Campus Co-operative Residence Incorporated

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Poorly sourced article about a housing cooperative whose only discernible notability claim is that it exists. The references here are two primary sources, a glancing namecheck of its existence in a blog entry about the general concept of cooperative living, and an article in the student newspaper of the university that this co-op serves -- which means that none of them are strong sources for the purposes of getting this over WP:GNG, because the ones that are substantively about the co-op aren't independent of it and the one that's independent of the co-op isn't substantively about it. Bearcat (talk) 03:50, 5 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. Hhkohh (talk) 04:52, 5 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Ontario-related deletion discussions. Hhkohh (talk) 04:52, 5 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ad Orientem (talk) 03:24, 13 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. An article in a newspaper, even a student newspaper, is a secondary source. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 04:21, 13 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The existence of one secondary source is not an automatic GNG pass or keep-clincher in and of itself. GNG requires multiple reliable sources, not just one, and GNG does put student media in the back seat as less carrying of notability than general market media is — a university student newspaper can be used for supplementary verification of stray facts after GNG has already been covered off by stronger sources, but it is not a bringer of GNG if it is the strongest source on offer. Bearcat (talk) 12:09, 14 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

One single student-newspaper as a source?

That's not stretching the requirements for notability; that's ripping them apart. -The Gnome (talk) 14:20, 17 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Not notable. There are 4 references cited in the article:
- Torontoist: Coverage of the subject is not in-depth
- Co-operative Housing Federation of Toronto: Not a secondary resource
- The Varsity: Not sufficiently independent from the subject of the article
- Toronto Media Co-op: Not a reliable source (WP:UGC)

I was unable to find any additional reliable sources about the subject. Newslinger (talk) 10:24, 13 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete on account of the serious dearth of sources. -The Gnome (talk) 14:20, 17 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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