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Lothlorien

It's the only co-op in the USCA with a redlink. I started a stub for it (albeit an extremely lame one, even for a stub) and it was speedied. I didn't notice there was a previous AfD (see below, last link). The arguments seemed to be that there was no info other than USCA for it--here are two more news refs. It's weird, because some other, newer, smaller, less noteworthy co-ops have articles which only cite the USCA. I don't get what the deal is with no Loth article. (Funnily enough, there is no love lost between me and Loth--I lived there for a semester to chill/escape from B-town, but since I was from B-town the elves thought I was danger incarnate or something. They wrote graffiti about me, the only Loth graffitit I ever saw: "sure, <blank> is exciting, but so is Beirut." I guess I moved in too soon after a bunch of Barringtonians put turkey carcasses in their outdoor hot tub...) Do you want to restart the Loth article? (I'm not sure of the process for justifying an article that has already been through AfD; I stay away from AfD completely)-Cindery 02:56, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

http://www.eastbayexpress.com/issues/2004-07-14/bottomfeeder.html http://www.dailycal.org/sharticle.php?id=19542 http://www.usca.org/coops/lot.php

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Lothlorien_Hall

I'm not sure - I'm beginning to think that all the other co-ops articles, except Barrington's, should be merged into the USCA article. Barrington has a significantly notable history; the rest can be explained in one or two lines.

The process that was applied to Loth could probably be applied to most of the other coops, but it hasn't - probably someone was looking for something about Middle Earth and found a co-op instead, and put it up for AfD because the article didn't assert notability. Argyriou (talk) 20:19, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

I would actually agree that most of the smaller ones could be merged into USCA--I don't think Barrington is the only exception, though--Cloyne has a long, notable history, a lot of refs, etc. Let me look over them again. I don't see the need for an article on "The Convent," though.-Cindery 20:39, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

I think, based on available refs, that in addition to Barrington, Cloyne, Casa Zimbabwe, and Le Chateau should have articles, and the rest could be merged with USCA. Or, they could all have their own articles (Wilde House is very new, but already the Bancroft is keeping records). But I don't think it makes sense that Loth is the only co-op without an article, since it's one of the oldest and largest. (And is is the only vegetarian student co-op in the country? certainly the oldest--1975. It might even qualify for the shortlist in a merge of smaller, newer houses into USCA...?)-Cindery 03:42, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

• Also: Lothlorien was designed by architect Clinton Day, who designed other buildings on campus, and in SF. The best part is that the building was leased by some freaky cult called the One World Family--which believed that UFOS were going to bring "a better life on earth"--from 1968 until 1975, when the USCA bought the building(s). (!) The cult built Lothlorien's sauna, and then absconded to Hawaii, leaving, er, cult-stuff in the attic and closets. At least according to this:[1] Maybe George-O has harder data/more info. (Or some leftover cult brochures :-)-Cindery 06:09, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Sherman Hall

The one AFD I close...

Here's the content of the page I deleted.

Sherman is a student housing cooperative in Berkeley, California. It is part of the USCA coop system.

Hope that helps. — AnemoneProjectors (talk) 10:01, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, that does help. Wow - it doesn't even mention that it's an all-female house. I intend to put up most of the houses for deletion, once I'm happy with my draft update to the main USCA article, which will incorporate material from most of the houses. I'll probably not put Cloyne or Barrington up for deletion. Αργυριου (talk) 16:40, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

I agree that Cloyne and Barrington are the only houses that have enough independent notability to have their own articles. The {{USCA Coops}} template should probably be deleted as well. Mike Dillon 18:49, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Hi there. I'm interested to know whether you're still intending to incorporate content from User:Mike Dillon/Lothlorien Hall into a future version of the USCA article. The admin who undeleted the content for me has left me a note to check up on the page since I have not done anything with it since it was restored. If you're through with it, I'd like to let him know that it can be re-deleted. Mike Dillon 14:27, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

I've copied the information I found usable to my draft USCA page, so feel free to have the copy in your userspace deleted. Αργυριου (talk) 18:06, 12 March 2007 (UTC)