Publish a book about it. If the society is interesting enough to be of note, sufficient pop culture should arise surrounding it to justify an article.
The incident you mention is indeed original rsearch - that is why we need an external source. Original research cannot be verified - that is why we need an external source. The inclusionists harp on it - "But it's VERIFIABLE! We gotta' keep it!" Without a source not from Wikipedia, this is not verifiable at all.
John Lee ([[User:Johnleemk]])
Sean Barrett wrote:
I have recently noticed another form of what I consider to be "original research," and I'd like to see if the consensus agrees with me.
The article [[The League of Distinguished Gentlemen]] purports to describe a secret society at Creighton University. It clearly was written by the secret society himself and is currently listed for deletion. A popular reason given in the votes for deletion is "unverifiable," the rebuttal to which is "you can't verify it because it's a /truly/ secret secret society!"
All of which is only mildly amusing, but did lead me to contemplate the possibility of a /real/ truly secret secret society. Even if such an Illuminatus really did exist, and someone really were able to penetrate it, it seems to me that the resulting exposé would be original research, and not appropriate for Wikipedia.
Thus, it seems to me that all unverifiable claims about secret societies are logically either (A) untrue, in which case they should be deleted, or (2) true, in which case they are original research and should be deleted.
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