Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cambridge Tolkien 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 redirect to The Tolkien Society#Local groups. Content has already been merged into the parent article. (non-admin closure) Esquivalience ^t 01:26, 21 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Cambridge Tolkien Society[edit]

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Non-notable Tolkien society. Prod tag removed by VMS Mosaic with an edit summary suggesting that there may be good coverage in two or more books, left a note on user's talk page requesting what they are over two weeks but got no response. Two best I found: [1] (inclusion in a publication of another society) and [2] (mention) Rainbow unicorn (talk) 02:14, 7 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete, on the basis there's no evidence of independent reliable coverage about this university society to meet WP:GNG. Sionk (talk) 19:27, 7 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 21:08, 19 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 21:08, 19 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment: I'm finding frequent mention of the society in various academic sources, but it's mostly just a brief mention like this one. For instance this source mentions their journal while this one uses one of their books as a source. So far I'm not entirely seeing enough to really show that they'd be influential in the way that Wikipedia would require for notability, though. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 10:12, 20 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Additional: The article says that this is an offshoot of a larger organization, The Tolkien Society. Given that we do have mention of this society in some RS, we could probably merge and redirect this to the parent article. There's a subsection there at The_Tolkien_Society#Local_groups and we could probably merge a very small amount of information about this group and what they've done, mainly the journal and book(s) they've written. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 10:16, 20 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Sorry, the book appears to have been released through the larger society. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 10:19, 20 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Redirect to The_Tolkien_Society#Local_groups. I've merged the pertinent information into the article, so we could reasonably redirect to that section of the article. This local group might not necessarily merit its own article, but it does seem like it should merit a mention somewhere. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 10:27, 20 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Redirect' per above and WP:BRANCH. Seems like the best solution. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 13:19, 20 November 2015 (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.