Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chicago and North Western Historical Society

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 merge to Chicago and North Western Transportation Company. I know delete was the numerical winner here, but the limited merge per Carrite satisfies WP:ATD and I believe meets the spirit of most of the straight delete !votes. -- RoySmith (talk) 22:38, 26 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Chicago and North Western Historical Society

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This article leans as a promotional article; it lacks references and significance and other articles about railroad historical societies are nearly nonexistent. TheGGoose (talk) 19:47, 15 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete Railcruft. Chris Troutman (talk) 02:21, 16 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. No third-party WP:RS to indicate notability. --Kinu ^t/_c 06:14, 16 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
delete fails WP:ORG. Overly promotional. LibStar (talk) 15:59, 19 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
~~Weak keep~~ at best but heavily prune -- 3000 members is quite considerable, as is the publication of a jounral regularly. The first three paragraphs and the one about the jounral might just be worth keeping. The lists of meeting and of officers should certainly be deleted. Peterkingiron (talk) 17:18, 19 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

the number of members is not a criterion for notability. it needs third party significant coverage which is clearly lacking. LibStar (talk) 07:00, 23 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Merge to Chicago and North Western Transportation Company. The annual meets, names of officers, blah blah blah is too much, but a short section on the society at the bottom of the railway page would not only be within scope but would be beneficial to readers. Self-source the info to society publications, if necessary, but get a couple footnotes in there to provide verifiability. As a stand-alone article this fails GNG. Carrite (talk) 15:12, 20 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Support -- That is a good suggestion. Peterkingiron (talk) 16:12, 26 July 2014 (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.