Talk:Melbourne University ALP Club

Votes for deletion

This page was recently nominated for deletion, and the consensus decision was to keep it. The deletion debate is archived here. ugen 64 02:13, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Merge?

It is completely unnecessary to merge this article with the UniMelb one. The ALP Club is very distinct from the University of Melbourne, just like the MUSU article was seperated. -- (posted at 01:39, 1 October 2005 by Theusualsuspect)

Absolutely. It would also be somewhat misleading, since the ALP club is affiliated with the student union rather than the university proper. -- (posted at 09:54, 30 October 2005 by 144.137.25.223)

I agree that a merge is not appropriate, and seeing as no-one has posted anything here explaining the neccesity of a merge, I have removed the notice. --Brendanfox 09:56, 25 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

It seems that people wanted to delete it and the merge was a position people could agree with. I don't support the merge, because this doesn't belong on the university's page. Maybe it could be part of an article on Student bodies at the University of Melbourne or something like that. Matt73 01:55, 10 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'll remove the merge tag since nobody is here arguing for such a move. However, I've added other problems tags. --kingboyk 03:09, 9 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I have removed the merge tag on Melbourne University - both mergeto and mergefrom tags need to be removed (or added) at the same time. --Bduke 04:50, 9 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Looking at the debate from a few years ago, nothing has really changed in terms of improving this orphan article - it is still lacking citations and references that establish notability. If these issues aren't addressed in the next few days, I'll propose a merger into Melbourne University student organisations. 210.15.213.194 (talk) 11:57, 6 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Merger Proposal

I think this page should be merged into Melbourne University student organisations.

The reasons being:

The article does not cite any sources that fulfill WP:RS
The subject does not have significant coverage with sources that address the subject directly in detail as per WP:N
Lines such as "Some now believe that" and "Both tickets enjoyed great success" are examples that go against WP:AWW and WP:NEU guidelines
The details about election and political history (eg. "a Golden Triangle preference deal") are self promoting and go against WP:PROMOTION
Finally, the structure of the article makes it difficult for a neutral reader to fairly and equally assess the credibility of all relevant and related viewpoints as per WP:STRUCTURE.

Each of these points need to be addressed and I think that by merging the article into a section on Political clubs in the Melbourne University student organisations, the subject can still be referred to - Melb Uni ALP Club does not, I believe, warrant an article of its own. If no corrections to the points listed above are made, I will merge the article after a week or so.
Australian Matt (talk) 12:16, 21 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Furthermore, there has previously been a deletion review for this article - see here - and the result was to merge and redirect. Australian Matt (talk) 12:25, 21 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I've merged the page as per my points above. Australian Matt (talk) 06:24, 25 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]