Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/British Sikh Student Federation

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 no consensus. WP:NPASR. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 03:01, 24 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

British Sikh Student Federation

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This article offers no supporting references and an online search only shows passing references. I would recommend this article for deletion. ES (talk) 18:27, 31 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 19:02, 31 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 19:02, 31 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• There are a lot of misguided actions going on here. The page was deleted as an expired prod in 2011. Instead of challenging the prod, the creator user:Sikhyouth84 reposted the page, but as a screen scrape rather than the original wikitext. As well as losing the wikitext, this resulted in losing the references (note that the reference numbers in square brackets were still visible). I have restored the history and reverted to the old article. As can be seen now, it is not correct that the article is unreferenced (but I'm offering no comment on the quality of those refs at this stage.

I also note that, bafflingly, the nominator created a second AFD. I've deleted that page and merged the contents and history here. I hope I've tidied up all the loose ends in that operation, but I'd be grateful if someone else could check. SpinningSpark 14:32, 1 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete Of the references that Spinningspark restored, one is 404, two are to a messageboard, one is to the organization itself, and the last is to an article about the murder of the organization's founder. A WP:BEFORE finds many sources about this murder but almost nothing about the organization. Two books about religious life in British universities mention the organization merely in passing in their introductions (strangely, in almost identical terms) and searching news and academic sources finds either mention of the murder or nothing at all. Since all the sources about the murder are not about the organization, they can be ignored, which leaves, well, almost nothing. Fails WP:GNG and WP:NORG. Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 18:55, 8 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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