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Article requests : If a future editor intends to replace this redirect to the Grove City College page with an article about the sorority, please don't cut and paste the content from its website. This will just cause the page to be deleted. This is the reason that, after many poor attempts at writing, the original Phi Sigma Chi page was salted, i.e.: disallowed as an article name. Instead, write a summary article, and cite your facts using independent references. Further, an infobox and an additional, freely-licensed graphic would add reader interest.
Citing sources : Most fraternity articles would benefit from additional citations, especially new or updated references. There is nothing in the later print editions of Baird's manual (last edition published in 1991), but you may certainly find them in a notable publication or book, the online Baird's Archive, a university yearbook, an official university portal listing or where the school comments on the student organization. When citing the online Baird's Manual Archive, use this reference template, as it ALREADY has the correct link for Grove City College's fraternities and sororities:
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Infobox : The infobox should be added, if you create an article. The template used for this entry, where you can see all available fields (--these things: "| = text") is the fraternity-specific infobox. This, and other useful items are linked on the Fraternities and Sororities Project page.
Maintain : Set a calendar reminder to update the article for necessary updates, annually.
Wikify : If you create this page, upload and add a crest for the infobox. Add color swatches. Add relevant, public symbolism to the infobox. List the group's print publication in the infobox, italicized. Add or confirm the physical address (including the ZIP code field) and website. Add or confirm the number of lifetime members. Expand the History section to include milestones. A table may be used to showcase notable members, but be sure to add Inclusion Rules to avoid vanity listings. Phi Kappa Theta does a nice job with their notable members list.
Why is does the article have "(sorority)" in the name?[edit]
Three reasons. First, between 2006 and 2011, several, likely new editors attempted to write an article about the group, but either used overly-promotional language (WP:PEACOCK), or simply copied and pasted the content of the sorority's website into the article. Neither of these are allowed. Wikipedia, an encyclopedia, requires that language used should summarize verifiable, original sources with citations. An article can be linked to the group's own website for some detail, but additional outside sources are required. See Pan Sophic or Adelphikos for examples.
Secondly, there was/is a boy's high school fraternity with the same name, of about the same age. I don't know for sure if some of these ten prior efforts to write this page were done in support of capturing the article name for that group, but it seems likely. All together, these multiple efforts to create a WP page, all of which were deleted because of WP:COPYVIO, WP:PEACOCK, lack of a WP:NPOV or simply lack of quality, none of these previous pages survived. Because of the repeated (poor) efforts, the page name was actually SALTED - kind of an extreme ban. When I embarked on writing WP:REDIRECT pages for all the active Grove City College chapters, I couldn't actually edit this particular article name, the only page name banned ("Salted") out of almost 30 groups. (Previous admins weren't picking on the group; the proposed articles repeatedly were poorly done.) I was able to convince the current admins to lift the long-term page creation protection (ban) in order to create the Disambiguation page, Phi Sigma Chi, which now points to five groups: this sorority, and to what I discovered were four additional groups that use(d) this Greek letter name.
Lastly, once I dug into it, I saw that today, there are at least five organizations that use or have previously used the name "Phi Sigma Chi"; they all have some right to it, and so we use these modifiers to guide readers to the correct one. There certainly may have been several more, so the list may grow. The article Phi Sigma Chi, now a Disambiguation page, is sort of a way-point that lists all the multiple groups that use(d) that name.
An article about the Grove City College group may still be created here, at Phi Sigma Chi (sorority). replacing the "redirect" language with a verifiable and clean article, similar to Pan Sophic or Adelphikos. One might use these as templates... Jax MN (talk) 12:07, 31 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
