Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Southland Astronomical Society

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The result was keep. No consensus to delete, merging can be taken care of elsewhere I guess. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 01:14, 24 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Southland Astronomical Society

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Disputed Prod. Basically a small non-notable society. The fact of being southernmost is marginally interesting, but unless that has resulted in astronomical observations of note, I don't think it confers notability (otherwise we will end up with articles on every small society in Invercargill on the basis of being southernmost). The Prod remover claimed 300+ online mentions. However, as far as I can see they are all trivial, so we have no substantial independent references, hence no basis for an article. dramatic (talk) 21:44, 9 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep In addition to being southernmost (a fact that is clearly of more significance to an astronomical society than to most others), they operate the Southland Museum and Art Gallery's 30cm Cassegrain telescope, quite a decent sized instrument and responsibility for such a society. And while the proposer claims that the references are trivial "as far as [he] can see", 300+ is 300+ -Arb. (talk) 21:00, 10 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Merge into Southland Astronomical Society Observatory, online articles have only minor mentions like dramatic says, e.g. from the ODT. The Southland Times appears to have only 2-3 years online, whereas the society has a 49 year history, there may be offline articles, like when the telescope was built. It's less than 2.5 degrees south of Mount John University Observatory, I think southernmost in NZ is fairly trivial. XLerate (talk) 03:02, 11 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Merge for now. John Vandenberg ^(chat) 13:46, 12 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, JForget 01:01, 16 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Keep or Merge Not sure why this needed relisting. ChildofMidnight (talk) 03:36, 17 January 2010 (UTC) Keep per Arb mostly. Merging isn't a bad choice, but there's no harm in the standalone version, and it's cleaner as a standalone article IMO. Headbomb {^ταλκ_{κοντριβς} – WP Physics} 06:02, 22 January 2010 (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.