Talk:List of college and university outing clubs

I'd like to comment in opposition to MrOllie's 29 August wholesale deletion of the majority of this list of University Outing Clubs, claiming notability and list guidelines. I'd like to hear this hashed out a bit more. Notability surely is not an issue with the list, unless notability is defined as "already in Wikipedia". University outing clubs have a broad and century-long history, though the phenomenon is mostly localized to northeastern schools -- other parts of the country have outdoors-related clubs usually known under other titles, or divided into more specialized categories. The "outing club" phenomenon in northeastern schools, in fact, was at one time inseparable from -- difficult as it may to believe -- square dancing, and no outing club meet or annual meeting would be complete without one. Clubs nowadays are more inclusively focused on multidisciplinary outdoors exploration skills, and square dancing is an essentially bygone part of outing clubs -- but the history and the phenomenon are distinct enough that this page deserves to exist, without the arbitrary and very sharp shears which have made it a barely recognizable censored tissue of what it had been built-up to be, and destroyed its utility.

67.241.47.79 (talk) 06:45, 17 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Lists#Listed_items discusses this issue a little bit, it seems that if you want to reintroduce the removed material reliable sources will have to be provided.--Commander Keane (talk) 11:46, 17 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings from six years in the future! I've started a new article ("Outing club") in an attempt to cover the "history and phenomenon" that you describe, but I think that listing every existing club would make this look more like a directory than an encyclopedia article (See "WP:NOTDIRECTORY."). I have added an External Links section to point to IOCA's directory, in case people are looking for something more complete. --Brian the Editor (talk) 03:39, 2 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]