Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Walthamstow & District Photographic Society

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The result was delete. – bradv🍁 22:55, 11 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Walthamstow & District Photographic Society[edit]

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Still poorly cited and orphaned after 4 years. Though there is a claim to be "one of the oldest photographic societies in the UK", this would not authomatically confer notability, and is contradicted by the news source in the article about a founder of the club who was born c.1916. This article is primarily an advert for the clubs current activities and fails WP:GNG and WP:NCORP. Sionk (talk) 17:34, 20 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 21:23, 20 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Photography-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 21:23, 20 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 21:23, 20 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The news source is in turn contradicted by the club's own history written by apparently the same Albert Bale that the news item accuses of being a founder member. Since this society is listed on page 252 of the 1922 issue of the The British Journal of Photography Almanac and mentioned as running its annual exhibition as usual despite the slight inconvenience of World War One on page 401 of the 1914 (volume 60) edition of The Amateur Photographer and Photographic News, I suggest that the club's history is far more likely to be right on this point than the newspaper article. Uncle G (talk) 02:41, 21 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Can we have an end to these nominations of organisations which were established a century ago? Notability does not just mean known to Google. Rathfelder (talk) 09:49, 21 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- Mind you, notability is not automatic for a local society (or anything else) that claims to be more than 100 years old and meets every Monday. I expect, because photography was rapidly becoming more widely available in the 1890s, there were loads of photography clubs. Sionk (talk) 19:41, 21 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Sandstein 07:34, 28 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 07:52, 4 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Fails WP:N; sources are local and/or not in depth. WP:MILL local club. Sandstein 21:52, 11 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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