Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lady Margaret Boat Club

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was keep. (non-admin closure) Erik9 (talk) 01:11, 19 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Lady Margaret Boat Club[edit]

Delete

It is almost completely unsourced
It is filled with obscure and unexplained rowing jargon
It sounds more like a piece of propaganda than a merited article
There is no indication that it is notable to a wide audience
If it is to be kept it requires some verifiable sourcing

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Jandrews23jandrews23 (talk • contribs)

Keep Plenty of references to establish notability and for verifiability. Check Google Books alone, this club goes back to 1825. If you think the article is substandard get in there and clean it up, don't waste time trying to get it deleted. Drawn Some (talk) 21:00, 13 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Thank you to the nominator for inadvertently supporting my talk-page point about WP:BEFORE.—S Marshall ^Talk/_Cont 21:41, 13 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - Enough notability. Needs to be further improved, though, with the aid of reliable sources that can establish some more easier verifiability. But I don't see a reason for delete instead of improve. Diana LeCrois : 22:50, 13 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. With the fame of Oxford and Cambridge rowing, deletion of any of the college rowing teams would seem odd, but particularly this one. Fences and windows (talk) 03:10, 14 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. None of the reasons given for deletion are valid reasons. They are all reasons for fixing up the article. LMBC is clearly notable, not least for representing Cambridge in 1837 against The Queen's College, representing Oxford, a race that is said to have influenced the starting of the Henley Regatta. There should be a source for that somewhere. --Bduke (Discussion) 03:25, 14 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep as per everyone but the nominator. Edward321 (talk) 13:33, 14 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.