Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cal Poly Week of Welcome

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The result was Delete the added sources are mostly internal and there is insufficient evidence of independant sourcing. Spartaz ^Humbug! 22:43, 5 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Cal Poly Week of Welcome

Non-notable organization. Under consrtuction or not, it's already far too detailed and trivial. One paragraph in the Cal Poly article might do, but all of this should go on the Cal Poly website or somewhere, not in an encyclopedia. Corvus cornix_talk 05:51, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Week of Welcome is one of the largest orientation programs in the nation. It has been modeled by many other universities, and this cite can be useful for colleges who are hoping to start their own welcome program. A program with over 500 volunteers who undergo 40+ hours of training each is not trivial. —Preceding unsigned comment added by XOgirl (talk • contribs) 05:55, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please read WP:USEFUL. Corvus cornix_talk 05:58, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The organization is notable. It is fifty years old and the largest student run orientation program in the country. Students plan it, organize it, and carry it out an entire week of activities for freshman and transfer students. It has been used as a model for many other universities. It is not just an extension of the university, it is it's own entity. How many week long events have you planed for 5,000 people? And how many universities have modeled a program of theirs on something that you're a part of? —Preceding unsigned comment added by XOgirl (talk • contribs) 06:16, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
— XOgirl (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. Corvus cornix_talk 22:46, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not only is the organization completely student run, but it has been in existence for fifty years. Thousands of students have experienced this program and used its basic leadership principles in their post-college life. This is an orgaization that Cal Poly alumni Weird Al produced a record about in the 1970s. It is a necessary article because it provides information about a very large program that is important not only to the Cal Poly campus, but to the community of San Luis Obispo as a whole. Wow78 (talk) 06:37, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- — Wow78 (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. Corvus cornix_talk 22:46, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete College orientation plans are not notable, and although the article is quite long, it asserts no particular notability and is almost entirely trivia, such as a day-by-day list of events. In summary: this belongs in a brochure, not in an encyclopedia. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 16:04, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Strong delete per User:Starblind / Andrew Lenahan. This sort of stuff really belongs on their web site, not our encyclopaedia. Also it's sourced *entirely* using self-published sources. • Anakin ^(talk) 17:16, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Why is a college orientation program not a notable topic? The California State University System is one of the biggest University Systems, and Cal Poly's Orientation program is the biggest orientation program in the country. That says something. If you want us to shorten it we can shorten it. We were still not close to being done editing it, which is why we had the under construction code. The largest orientation program in the country, in the largest University system in the country is a notable topic. If you give us specific changes that would make it seem less like trivia then we would be happy to make those changes, but the topic is notable. —Preceding unsigned comment added by XOgirl (talk • contribs) 05:26, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom, Andrew, and Anakin. Most of the claims to notability above (other universities have modeled their orientation programs on this one, Weird Al Yankovic wrote a song about it, it's the largest orientation program in the country) don't even appear in the article itself, much less are sourced. And it would be very difficult for a university program to establish notability just using sources from the university's own web site, but every source now in the article comes from calpoly.edu. In other words, I would be much more impressed by the article if there were an article from the Chronicle of Higher Education that listed the ten largest orientation programs and placed Cal Poly's at #1. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 05:33, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
We have added new references to our page. We are currently working on condensing the WOW Schedule section to make it less trivial. Please let us know if you have any other suggestions. Wow78 (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 21:35, 3 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per WP:HEY. Article now appears to be sourced. Hobit (talk) 02:17, 5 March 2008 (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.