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future research. These fraternity articles aren't harming anyone. Knowledge (XXG) is poorer for only allowing the major organizations to have a page... This is why I went long in my earlier response to them, citing the infamous "deletion" versus "inclusion" battle. --I'm not going to convince the person who nominated this AfD, but it might convince some lurkers to switch to a more inclusive position. Thank you, thank you. And I don't have a particular dog in this fight, not any connection to Delta Beta Phi. But it is a line in the sand. Now that the F&S Project is heating up to more activity, my plan is to restore some of the already-deleted pages, that are otherwise good articles, maybe only needing some polishing.
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