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The result was keep. New (near unanimous) consensus that this should be kept per the new sources found and per WP:DINC

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Java version history

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This steps over the line of

WP:NOT. Virtually the entire article is release notes from Oracle. The encyclopaedic content is around the change in release cadence, which can be covered in the main article with a single sentence. Guy (help!) 13:19, 10 June 2020 (UTC)[reply
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  • Keep, affirming what
    WP:NOTADVERTISING. But I think a positive outcome of this discussion should be a clarified policy for all programming language versions going forward, because inevitably the sourcing will be largely singular for each and every small feature update/syntax change. Shushugah (talk) 12:19, 11 June 2020 (UTC)[reply
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Comment, if we do seek a rule change/clarity on what change logs are appropriate we should update
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The result was delete. The single keep !vote concedes that there insufficient online sources to make out notability, but does not point to any offsite sources that could assist, and also resorts to

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Terri (Musician)

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Subject of the article lacks in-depth significant coverage in

WP:SINGER. A glance at the sources presented in the article are mere announcements of the subject releasing new music. Celestina007 (talk) 22:58, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply
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Strong Keep the subject is currently notable in nigeria, he may not have enough online coverage but offsite he's well known in nigeria as a musician, this subject is signed to Starboy Entertainment, only artiste signed by Wizkid, arguably the biggest afrobeats musician in Nigeria, there alot of Nigeria musicians on wikipedia that have same coverage and notability rate as his.Amosflash (talk)

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The result was keep.

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The Sound Explosion

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No notability, no sources. Glucken123 (talk) 15:44, 11 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Comment - Well, the article does not contain any sources and the Greek Wikipedia does not have an article about this band either. But I agree with you FOARP, this guy need to slow down with the AfDs about Greek bands/musicians. GhostDestroyer100 (talk) 16:23, 11 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was no consensus to delete, default to keep. This was already re-listed once, and generated no further discussion, so I'm closing it. It could arguably have been closed as keep, but, on balance, I'm not convinced that discussion has reached the point of consensus. However, the Korean language sources cited by both keep !votes are unrebutted. Steve Smith (talk) 00:12, 6 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Point Blank (2008 video game)

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I believe this game does not meet Wikipedia's notability policy. I was unable to turn up any reviews from reliable publications, nor do the three sources used in the page come from non-primary, reliable websites. Could also find nothing on MobyGames (it doesn't even seem to have a page for it) or the Wayback Machine. Namcokid47 (Contribs) 16:41, 19 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was delete. bibliomaniac15 04:12, 5 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Religious community

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This article is based on the ambiguity of the word "community". Much of the article appears to be

WP:NOTADICT.) The body is a apparently a typology of Catholic institutes of consecrated life. I realize that the term "religious community" is widely used, but I don't see it described and defined in quality sources in any consistent way. Daask (talk) 05:13, 12 June 2020 (UTC)[reply
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  • Keep. (Added 20 June) Changed to abstain following discussion below. The criticism of the article as it stands seems reasonable (I haven't considered it in close detail), but the article is potentially valuable. It's an incomplete stub, needing adding to and editing. Perhaps a start would be to create empty headings on Tibetan Buddhist, Japanese, in antiquity, etc. communities? I don't see a problem with the ambiguity of the word "community"; I personally think that the article should focus on things like monasteries, with a brief mention that "community" is often taken to mean people with a shared attribute living in the wider world - I don't think there's a great deal to say about this wider use beyond possibly a link to the different religions. Pol098 (talk) 10:17, 12 June 2020 (UTC) Added: I've made a start, rewriting the OR (as my OR), separating out Catholicism, and adding stub sections for Buddhism and Orthodox Christianity. Pol098 (talk) 10:56, 12 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Pol098: Where does the article title come from? Where is it defined? We can't just pull together things that seem similar to us and join them in an article. What sources describe the subjects you are discussing together? What is the difference from this article and Institute of consecrated life? or Monasticism? Daask (talk) 13:27, 14 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Sources added to article. I don't want to get into a discussion with one editor so may not respond further here; let's see the consensus. Best wishes Pol098 (talk) 13:52, 14 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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  • Comment. The article does not currently draw a meaningful distinction between a religious community and a monastery, the latter already being amply covered, and the other uses (eg. Mennonites) appear to be in the same generic sense of "community" that one might say "the Jewish community" or "the Muslim community." @Pol098: can you please elaborate on how this page is not redundant to our coverage of monasticism? –Roscelese (talkcontribs) 14:58, 19 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I don't have the knowledge to go further, and don't have an opinion strong enough to try to make a case. If there are "religious communities" that don't fall under monasticism (I don't know if there are), maybe the article is justified; if not, perhaps not. If not justified as a separate article, possibly a disambiguation to Monasticism on the one hand, articles on the wider use on the other? Certainly present content (with my additions, just empty stub sections for different religions) isn't satisfactory. Best wishes, Pol098 (talk) 20:51, 19 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Okay, sorry for misunderstanding (perhaps) your role in the article. I'm inclined to say that the best course of action is probably to redirect this title to Religious order, since, when used as a term of art rather than the generic sense of "a community of people following the same religion," this appears to be what it refers to. I don't know if any kind of disambiguating hatnote at that target would be helpful, since I don't know what articles we have that cover the idea of people in a community following the same religion. –Roscelese (talkcontribs) 17:07, 20 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • leaning towards using some
    WP:TNT I think there is some reason for having an article on the history of communal living in various religions, but this article is definitely not going down that route and its current direction, towards cataloging every type of non-parochial body in the Catholic and Orthodox churches, is redundant. Mangoe (talk) 16:12, 22 June 2020 (UTC)[reply
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Agreed. Beyond the monastic orders, there has been various groups living in a community based upon a common religious outlook (e.g., Oneida Community, Rajneeshees, Hutterites, United Order, Branch Davidians, et al.) But as noted, the article would need serious work and better focus.--Surv1v4l1st Talk|Contribs 23:28, 25 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was delete. Steve Smith (talk) 00:16, 6 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Gold (Bonnie Tyler album)

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This compilation album is not notable. It did not chart worldwide, there is little information about this release elsewhere. Skyrack95 (talk) 21:27, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was redirect to

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Disney Wish

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Does not comply with

WP:FUTURE. The ships aren't even named? Also has poor references... all P.R. We could bring this back when this cruise line is actually launched. P,TO 19104 (talk) (contribs) 21:17, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply
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The result was delete. Sandstein 06:09, 6 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Oporadhi

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Failed

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The result was delete. Sandstein 06:10, 6 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Aiobahn

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No significant coverage, only sources available and presented are of the musician's work, all of which do not have independent notability. Not inherited from appearances on notable record labels. Fails

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The result was delete. Sandstein 06:10, 6 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Its Lilli here, could you please re-evaluate my page? Let me know what else I would need to provide. I have published articles in a few publications, I'm also verified on Facebook & Twitter, and have over 4 million followers between my platforms. Thank you
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Lilli Luxe

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Tagged for notability since 2016, not fixed. References are differently reliable. Guy (help!) 11:36, 10 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Delete Her notability in the press seems to stem from the fan backlash in 2018 to her weight loss (i.e. a single event and not ongoing notability) - otherwise a quick search couldn't source any reliable material on her. --Prosperosity (talk) 01:32, 27 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was keep.

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Lacks clearly WP:GNG

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Keep Well known in Belgium as a VRT reporter. He also started on the pirate radio stations which liberated the Dutch radio and television for other broadcasting stations, and he wrote a stack of books. Clearly notable. KittenKlub (talk) 21:20, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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The Radio stations caused it, not an individual DJ. His main notability is as a reporter for more than 30 years. He is notable in Belgium.KittenKlub (talk) 21:48, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Well known reporter and radio broadcaster. I think it complies with ]
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Keep Notable radio producer. Have always been good references in the article. I still don’t understand the reasoning with “clearly” of the nominator. SportsOlympic (talk) 18:23, 30 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was soft delete. Based on

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Record Makers

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The article does not seem to pass

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The result was delete. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 20:23, 3 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Jason Garnar

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Very local politician fails

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The result was no consensus. Clearly not enough participation to decide on this despite multiple relists

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Warfare Noise

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Fails

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Could you please show how it is notable according to WP:NALBUM? Richard3120 (talk) 16:36, 8 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Only Ultimate Guitar is a reliable source, and in none of those sources is there anything more than a one line passing mention. Richard3120 (talk) 16:36, 8 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was delete. It appears that other editors have cured the

WP:BEFORE objection by engaging in the requisite search. BD2412 T 01:51, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply
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OtherView

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Another unknown band on Wikipedia with unreliable sources. Glucken123 (talk) 15:39, 11 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was no consensus. Sandstein 06:11, 6 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Kabhi Saas Kabhi Bahu

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Non-notable series 17jiangz1 (talk) 13:36, 11 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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On what basis this television series is deleted. You have no stable proof of deleting this series, then this series should not be deleted. Kaitudi (talk) 13:37, 14 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Viking Crown

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Non-notable band. GhostDestroyer100 (talk) 18:38, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Phil Anselmo is notable, obviously. But not everything he did is notable. Viking Crown is an example. I could not find anything besides unreliable databases such as Metal Archives, Discogs, Spirit of Metal, Rate Your Music and the like. The rest of the results were retail sites, blogs, trivial mentions, name checks and stuff where only the words are used, which does not make anyone/anything notable either. The article of the first album have no sources whatsoever, while the second one is sourced to an Allmusic review only. The band has an Allmusic biography page which establishes notability. I also found a review of their second album on Metal.de. But I still don't know if that site is reliable or not. The article itself is also poorly sourced to Rockdetector and Encyclopedia Metallum. I don't know about the former, but I know for a fact that the latter is not notable. The band's name is mentioned in books about metal music, but that's it (for example: "Vision of Disorder, Viking Crown,...") so it seems like there is no reliable sources whatsoever. I also searched with his name included but I could not find anything more besides trivial mentions (during interviews with Phil, mentioning it during his career etc.), name checks and shop sites. So it seems it did not have any notability outside of Phil Anselmo. I find that interesting since Phil Anselmo himself is clearly notable but it seems this short-lived project of his did not attract much attention and remained underground. The band has articles on the Norwegian and Italian Wikipedias too, but the sourcing is crappy on both of them. So I say, Viking Crown is not notable on its own, but it can be redirected to Anselmo's article (the band itself has a paragraph there). GhostDestroyer100 (talk) 18:37, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Redirect to Phil Anselmo as one of his many side projects. Viking Crown is occasionally mentioned in long magazine articles about things Anselmo has done, but I can find no reliable media coverage in which this act was discussed on its own merits. They are only found in the basic list sites as found by the nominator, and the same is true of their albums. However, experts may search for the name, so they can be directed to Anselmo's page where Viking Crown already has a basic mention. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (Talk|Contribs) 21:54, 28 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment I found this album review. Chronicles of Chaos is a reliable source. Okay, maybe I rushed this up, I nominated too quick. We have several reliable sources now (Allmusic biography + Allmusic album review, Metal.de Album Review, Chronicles of Chaos Album Review). I will put these sources in the article and I think we can keep it. (The reason I started this AfD was the fact that initially I did not find any reliable source, and by searching "Viking Crown" the unreliable sources still outweigh the reliable ones. You have to search really hard to find these.) GhostDestroyer100 (talk) 13:35, 29 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    If you wish to withdraw the nomination, you may do so. Chubbles (talk) 22:31, 29 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Leaning toward Keep on this one. The metal.de review, AMG's bio and review, a (short) bio on the old Rockdetector, plus this interview states that a piece in Revolver led to the band's breakup, which means Revolver was covering the group in 2001. I've little doubt that other metal rags ca. 2001 would turn up more coverage. Chubbles (talk) 22:30, 29 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment Ok, I withdraw the AfD, the article can be kept. GhostDestroyer100 (talk) 07:06, 30 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Aries (journal)

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No evidence of notability for what is a society journal. Slatersteven (talk) 18:24, 19 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was delete. Sandstein 06:12, 6 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Srinagar (film)

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Non-notable future film, very little coverage about the film, most citations in article do not actually even mention the film described, or come from unreliable sources, does not meet

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The result was delete. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 20:26, 3 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

CallMeCarson

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YouTuber with a high number of subscribers and a large fanbase, but doubtful that he passes

WP:RS, with the Newsweek article being the only decent source I can find. Dexerto, for instance, was decided to be generally unreliable per this discussion. Mbdfar (talk) 17:26, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply
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Delete per nom. No evidence of GNG. PRAHLADbalaji (M•T•AC) This message was left at 17:33, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was delete. Sandstein 06:12, 6 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Pete Conrad Global Patient Safety Award

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While Pete Conrad is certainly notable, and while this award has been given to some notable individuals, the independent coverage of this award in

WP:GNG. Most of the independent sources in this entry are just supporting biographical details of the award recipients or patient safety information in general. I haven’t come up with any independent non-trivial coverage despite searching Google, Google Books, and newspapers.com. Larry Hockett (Talk) 17:13, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply
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  • Delete - I concur with the nominator's analysis. While there are plenty of references in the article, the bulk of them make no mention of the award and are to verify statements of facts, usually about the recipient of the award. What is missing in the huge number of references is significant coverage in independent reliable sources. -- Whpq (talk) 13:17, 2 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was delete. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 20:26, 3 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Jiggle the Handle

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Non-notable group. Can't find reliable third party references about them. Even news and general searches for them generally only return results about people breaking their toilets or not opening doors properly. No evidence of any notability. Seems to just be a self-promotional page as created by a user whose only edits were to this page. Canterbury Tail talk 17:07, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was delete. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 20:27, 3 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Aurelieus6

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Completely non-notable. All references are self published, some are literally sites specifically so people can promote themselves. This is pure publicity for a non-notable person. Canterbury Tail talk 17:03, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was redirect to Bonnie Tyler discography. Sandstein 06:12, 6 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

All the Hits (Bonnie Tyler album)

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This compilation is not notable. The article merely offers a commentary on the track listing; it did not chart and there are no critical reviews or other related literature. Skyrack95 (talk) 16:39, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Redirect to Bonnie Tyler - no independent notability in the press established by the article. --Prosperosity (talk) 01:36, 27 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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This Is Gonna Hurt (Bonnie Tyler song)

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I believe the article fails to meet the notability criteria as per

WP:MUS. It was released as a single, it did not chart anywhere, and the small number of critical reviews it received could be summarised in Rocks and Honey. The song has experienced no lasting notability since its release. Skyrack95 (talk) 16:27, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply
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List of fandom names

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Pure, unadulterated

Wikipedia is not. Most of these wouldn't even find a proper home in their target article, let alone creating a list of "Random source X called fans of artist Y, Zs" (if you're lucky). –Deacon Vorbis (carbon • videos) 15:49, 10 June 2020 (UTC)[reply
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  • Keep fandoms are very much a legitimate subject matter. Some might be more prominent than others (i.e. Deadheads for Grateful Dead and Trekkies for Star Trek are probably among the most famous), but I wouldn't call this listcruft. SNUGGUMS (talk / edits) 16:03, 10 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Week keep based on current sources. Clearly
    WP:LISTN
    . Concretely: have "names of fandoms" been discussed as a group or set by independent reliable sources? The list certainly has a lot of sources, but they do not all fulfill this requirement. But these ones in particular seem to:
  1. The Atlantic article "Beliebers, Directioners, Barbz: What's With Pop's Fanbase-Nickname Craze?" is great; directly discusses "'names of fandoms" and passes all the requirements of
    WP:GNG
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  2. Vulture article "From Trekkies to Twihards: How to Name Your Fandom" is on-topic, but the analysis is a little shallow. Others may take issue at the reliability as well. Seems a decent source to show notability.
Some of the fandom names are very poorly sourced, e.g. to social media post or fan sites. But this is not a good argument for deletion; the correct remedy is to resource these list items or delete them from the list. Other sources are reliable, but do not imply notability because they discuss only a single fandom name instead of the group of fandom names as a whole. Overall, we should look for more sources like the two listed above to confirm notability. BenKuykendall (talk) 21:20, 10 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
A ham sandwich could past LISTN. LISTN is broken. And it's being applied too casually here anyway. Just because you can find a couple puff pieces about naming of fandoms doesn't mean we should have a list of the most obscure shit we can find. The Atlantic piece could be used to add some content to the Fandom article itself, but it doesn't justify the existence of this list. –Deacon Vorbis (carbon • videos) 22:23, 10 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment. I removed all the social media sources and corresponding list items. Not saying all remaining sources are good, but trimming the list and improving sourcing seems feasible. BenKuykendall (talk) 05:44, 17 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Ron Zwanziger

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Non-notable person. The company, Alere, has an article, and this would be a good target for a redirect. He's mentioned in that one Business Journal, and there's a bunch of mentions on some business-related websites, but in the end his notability depends completely on Alere. Drmies (talk) 03:35, 4 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Zwanziger is a prominent member of the Boston, USA business community. It's not a "mention" in the Boston Business Joural, but a lengthy profile article under the title "Boston's Barbarian". The "Inverness Medical Innovations--Born Global" source is a Harvard Business School case study, which is the traditional gold standard of business case studies, and contains several pages of career profile and biographical information on Zwanziger. The Funding Universe article is actually impeccably researched. These are just the sources you've mentioned, but the article is rather well-sourced, so I could go on. As to whether Zwanziger's notability depends on Alere, the company Medisense which Zwanziger also cofounded is important in the history of
glucose meters and was the basis for the diabetes unit of Abbott Laboratories. Medisense is discussed rather extensively in the article RSes. Additionally Zwanziger is the current CEO of LumiraDx, which apparently raised the 9th largest VC investment in the world for April 2020 (see https://pitchbook.com/blog/the-most-funded-vc-companies-in-april-2020
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To anyone else joining the conversation, important context: Drmies targeted this article for a redirect only after they became irate about an edit I made and found the article in my contributions history. They then redirected the article without notification or discussion. They are only now proceeding via a proper channel after I expended considerable effort figuring out how to reverse what they did (which, I think it is fair to say, would meet the definition of page vandalism). Zekelayla (talk) 03:48, 4 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • So, oppose/keep Zekelayla (talk) 04:14, 4 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    • Hmm. You got one article in a secondary source. You have a "business case study" but it has no proper bibliographic citation, and no link to an online version that editors can judge--that this meets some "gold standard" is your own claim. And you have something from "Funding Universe" which you say is "impeccably researched"--but Funding Universe merely reprints material from the International Directory of Company Histories (it doesn't seem like you knew this), and the reliability of that source is hard to judge. It does cite one source that mentions Zwanziger explicitly (Inc. Magazine, Dec. 1990, p. 74), and I looked at what it has to say about Zwanziger himself: "Zwanziger grew up in Cyprus, then was educated in Great Britain. He received an engineering degree from Imperial College at London University before attending Harvard Business School." That's it. Standard stuff, no in-depth discussion, nothing. In other words, nothing proves that this person should be notable independently of the company. 12:39, 4 June 2020 (UTC)Drmies (talk)
Drmies Regarding HBS case studies, HBS is one of the top business schools in the world. Introduction to the importance of their case study method. Unfortunately, to see the publication you will need to shell out $9 or use institutional access. But last time I checked, paywalled academic research is an entirely legitimate source on wikipedia.
The "Funding Universe" source was not added by me, and yes it should be corrected to point to the International Directory of Company Histories directly, which is the source of the impeccable research. That source includes 3 full paragraphs on Zwanziger and his earlier company Medisense. As far as I can tell, every claim in the IDCH article is corroborated by its bibliography.
And of course there are other sources on the article that you are ignoring, the book "Worthless, Impossible and Stupid: How Contrarian Entrepreneurs Create and Capture Extraordinary Value", multiple newspaper articles which address Zwanziger directly. Zekelayla (talk) 18:30, 4 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, Black Kite. I added additional content on the importance of Medisense and LumiraDx (Zwanziger's other ventures, which are not covered by articles). See what you think. Also, if you are still worried about the sourcing after that, it would be helpful if you could suggest what more would be needed. As a brief inventory, we currently have 2 full length profile/biographical pieces in the Harvard case study and the Boston Business Journal article, 2 shorter ones in the Isenberg book and the IDCH article, as well as citations to various newspaper articles which foreground Zwanziger (eg sources 12, 10, 11), etc.Zekelayla (talk) 21:03, 4 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Spinningspark There is a partial inventory of sources in my comment to Black Kite, which I reproduce here:

we currently have 2 full length profile/biographical pieces in the Harvard case study and the Boston Business Journal article, 2 shorter ones in the Isenberg book [Worthless, Impossible and Stupid: How Contrarian Entrepreneurs Create and Capture Extraordinary Value] and the IDCH [International Directory of Company Histories] article, as well as citations to various newspaper articles which foreground Zwanziger (eg sources 12, 10, 11), etc.

I think those already should establish notability. The main additional sources I've put in are an electrochemistry textbook (Bond 2002), an article in the journal Chemical Reviews, and a recent Long Island Press article. Zekelayla (talk) 07:55, 27 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was delete. What Ali.shaila writes makes no sense, and everybody else supports deletion. Sandstein 09:45, 4 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

International Society for Interpersonal Acceptance and Rejection

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A speedy was rejected, so we are here. needs TNT Roxy the elfin dog . wooF 15:42, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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If my previous work got deleted then does that mean that no one can write a Wikipedia page on that issue again? I am asking this because one of my previous entries got deleted. I took care of the reasons that reviewers had made while deleting. So I re-wrote a page but just now someone is sending me rude comments and has tagged my page for deletion by stating that I can't re-write a page because my previous page on the same content got deleted.

I have added better references in the current version but I can't change the names, dates, and facts. Previous page was deleted because the references cited were not from a third party. Now all the reference are from a third party. Ali.shaila (talk) 14:39, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Oh copyright infringements, attack pages, hoaxes, BLP violations, and similar improper pages are not normally restored at all. DES (talk)DESiegel Contribs 22:38, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

My comments were made on another page, in another context, and addressed to another user. They should not have been copied and pasted here. DES (talk)DESiegel Contribs 00:33, 27 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I wrote a Wikipedia page (International Society for Interpersonal Acceptance and Rejection)which got deleted with a comment that the references should be from a third party. So I edited the page by adding third party references and modeled the page after an already Wikipedia page on another society (National Council for Family Relations Wikipedia). After 5 minutes of publishing the new entry I started getting inappropriate comments on my new entry. One person tagged my new page for speedy deletion with a comment that my previous page was deleted so I can't write a new one. The person didn't bother to read the newly edited version.

I can NOT change fact (such as years) nor names in my article. However, I can only update the references from a third part to be transparent.

Someone read all my previous talks and comments and decide to tag the already existing page of National Council for Family Relations Wikipedia to make a logic to delete my page. This is not an appropriate action for the reviewers. Be transparent. Ali.shaila (talk) 17:03, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete Nothing substantial in reliable, independent sources. The article was full of footnote-cruft: pages that did not mention the topic of the article itself, links back to Wikipedia, and miscellaneous web-scrapings. Announcements from ISIPAR itself that happen to appear on other websites — the Nth international conference on interpersonal acceptance will be held at such-and-such a place, etc. — are not independent coverage. XOR'easter (talk) 17:51, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was delete. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 16:47, 3 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Seems to be a run of the mill company that does not satisfy NCORP. Coverage is limited to routine funding announcements, brief mentions and press releases.

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  • Keep: I found a few reliable sources about the company: [34], [35], [36] and [37]. It's also mentioned here. With these, the article is good enough to pass
    WP:NCORP. My vote stands. I won't reply any further. ASTIG😎 (ICE TICE CUBE) 08:39, 25 June 2020 (UTC)[reply
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      • HighKing, First. I've been participating in AfDs before and, for Christ's sake, I really know that this is not a vote count. When I said my vote stands, my reasoning stands as well and not the vote itself. Second. I don't mind if the weight of my reason to keep or delete a certain article is not as heavy or light than the others. All that matters is that I've said my viewpoints. If other people vote to delete it for a reason, then be it. If they voted to keep it for a reason, then be it. I respect their viewpoints. And mine should be respected as well. Third. Anyone has the option to respond or not. If he chooses to respond, then fine. But, if he chooses not to respond, then be it. But whether I respond or not, my viewpoints will stand. Therefore, no matter how many times you argue with me, I never misunderstood the idea of any AfD Process. I rest my case. I really do. And I won't reply from hereon as this is not worth arguing. ASTIG😎 (ICE TICE CUBE) 13:39, 2 July 2020 (UTC)[reply
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  • delete The sources provided above are laughably bad, mostly unreliable and even so, they are barely even a passing mention. The current article is straight up spam and I can find nothing to indicate that this is actually notable. Praxidicae (talk) 15:17, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete The sources found by Superastig don’t look like in-depth coverage in reliable independent sources. Mccapra (talk) 16:14, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete First off, the criteria for references to establish notability is not just whether the publications is a "reliable source". There are ]
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The result was merge to Eric Forrest. Sandstein 06:13, 6 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Non-notable band. GhostDestroyer100 (talk) 15:04, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think this band is notable. While I found some (otherwise) reliable sources like Blabbermouth and Brave Words, these are just announcements of their albums and read like a press release. The Allmusic page is blank which makes it unreliable. The rest of the results were semi-reliable (Metal Storm and Sputnik Music) and completely unreliable (Metal Archives, Discogs, Rate Your Music, Spirit of Metal, Last.fm, Spotify, SoundCloud, Amazon etc). So I think this band is not notable for Wikipedia. GhostDestroyer100 (talk) 15:03, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was Draftify.

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Does not meeting general notability guidelines with various failed Citations Majun e Baqi (talk) 13:37, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was speedy keep. Withdrawn by nominator

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Nations of Nineteen Eighty-Four

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I actually think this topic may be notable (sourcing like this and this was found relatively quickly) but the article as it stands is

fancruft, only sourced to the book, and goes into more detail than an encyclopedia reasonably should (without any secondary sources). This painfully under-sourced mess should be a redirect' to Nineteen Eighty-Four#Political geography, which contains a reasonable amount of in-universe detail. I'm not opposed to withdrawing this AFD if the in-universe stuff is trimmed and secondary sources added, but as it stands there's no benefit from a stand-alone article. (note: coming to AFD for wider input after Deacon Vorbis and Michael Bednarek disagreed about whether to redirect or not) Eddie891 Talk Work 12:55, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply
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  • Concur with nom, mostly. It also appears that each individual nation was merged into this single article not too long ago. It's drastically undersourced and, in the style of writing, currently has little encyclopaedic value and currently suffers from a bunch of
    WP:TNT worthy; there's plenty of stuff in here not in the main article, not all of it being fancruft. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 14:27, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply
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  • Redirect as suggested by the nominator. This violates
    WP:NOTPLOT because it is an entirely in-universe description of a fictional work. Articles about fictional topics need to include at least some sort of real-world background, context or analysis. I'm sure enough people have written about Nineteen Eighty-Four for this to be possible but as it stands the article isn't encyclopedic. Hut 8.5 20:02, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply
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The result was delete. King of ♥ 22:34, 3 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was keep, narrowly, and with a suggestion to refactor the subject into an article incorporating a list, rather than structuring it as a list. BD2412 T 23:26, 8 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

List of Massachusetts Institute of Technology fraternities, sororities, and ILGs

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WP:NOTDIRECTORY, this is a list of non-notable entities with a significant amount of fluff and unreferenced content. In a similar category as the recent Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate dormitories and the recent Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Massachusetts Institute of Technology undergraduate dormitories EoRdE6(Come Talk to Me!) 02:54, 12 June 2020 (UTC)[reply
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  • Keep Trimmed definitely, My question is whether you consider (just to pick one of the organizations) Delta Tau Delta to be a non-notable entity (and as such would support deleting that Article). I agree it can be trimmed down a lot, and better references are needed, but if the question is ultimately whether an article with the core information can exist, I believe that it can.Naraht (talk) 14:11, 12 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep I'd reduce the language extolling the virtues of each individual chapter and leave that for the rush brochure. But this is an historic system with a history of almost 150 years. Its milestones should be noted, including high water mark for participation, notable downturns, and overall population measures. Jax MN (talk) 23:21, 14 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Respectfully, neither of these comments address my concerns about having significant coverage in independent secondary sources, nor about this being anything but a directory, and while I respect the knowledge you both bring to this discussion, you both appear to have somewhat significant conflicts of interest in this topic. EoRdE6(Come Talk to Me!) 21:21, 15 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not an MIT grad, nor is User:Naraht. Hence while we may have specialties in the area of collegiate and post-grad societies, among other topics, I don't see a conflict of interest. To your point, we have been discussing resources for additional references to improve the page, which I think is a reasonable objective. Jax MN (talk) 21:40, 15 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I'm working on substantial re-write of the page in order to get rid of fluff and add extensive references. Jax MN (talk) 20:45, 16 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
An example of how the page would look, and a longer discussion of improvements, is at
List of Massachusetts Institute of Technology fraternities, sororities, and ILGs. Please review. Jax MN (talk) 03:45, 17 June 2020 (UTC)[reply
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  • Again Keep, with Reformatting: See
    Talk:List_of_Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology_fraternities,_sororities,_and_ILGs#New_format_suggestion
    , Sections 4, 5, and 6, for the new formatting model. A couple of points:
  • These pages are highly-trafficked, and valuable to their communities. There are many similar examples of such pages so I don't see the rationale for deleting this one.
  • As to
    WP:NLIST
    , 50% of MIT students join these organizations. The groups own properties and have histories stretching back to the 1800s. Clearly notable.
  • For larger Greek systems, two Wikipedia List styles have emerged, which I'd call the
    Dartmouth Greek List Model
    - I far prefer the Cornell model, as it is more succinct, referenced, and not as subject to bloat, reduces fluff and suppresses inconsistent editing. The page we are discussing is rendered in the Dartmouth style (poorly, at that), and my suggested revision is in the Cornell style.
  • I agree that the references on the original MIT list of Greeks were thin. However, I don't dismiss out-of-hand the MIT sources. Use of University Greek Life Office info about the Greeks is consistent with other such lists. And Baird's Manual has long been considered the defacto reference work for these societies. The new model makes use of Baird's.
  • This article was discussed for deletion back in 2007, and deletion was rejected then (withdrawn). Jax MN (talk) 15:30, 19 June 2020 (UTC)
Duplicate vote: Jax MN (talkcontribs) has already cast a vote above.
Yes, I did vote twice, the second time after you promoted the issue once again. (Actually, as I pointed out, it's the third time the issue had been raised, and a previous AfD was withdrawn.) EoRdE6, you have not addressed the substantive issues I've raised. I'm attempting to cure the valid concerns that prompted your request for AfD. Frankly I am surprised that this has generated so little conversation, as these Greek lists are often more popular. Page history, only going back to 2016 shows a dozen views a day. I conclude that with a higher quality page it will generate more use, more interest. Which is what I am attempting to do by revising it. I'm about to update the new draft to its mainspace. Will you withdraw this AfD request on this basis? Jax MN (talk) 16:43, 22 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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mean anything, we don't use case law on Wikipedia and a previous keep doesn't mean it can't be deleted in the future. I of course encourage you to try to improve the article, no one is stopping you there. But I fully intend to let this AfD run its course and have other, uninvolved and non-COI editors weigh in, and have absolutely no interest in arguing with you about improving it, which is why I have refrained from replying, I welcome improvements to the article, that's why we are here. My vote remains delete. EoRdE6(Come Talk to Me!) 16:54, 22 June 2020 (UTC)[reply
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Hi @Rhododendrites:. I'm about to swap out the entire page with new content that fixes the lack of references, the fluff language and style problems. I'd appreciate your review of the updated page after about 20 minutes from now and ask for a reconsideration of your leaning vote. My concern remains that this effort to delete is Quixotic. Unnecessary. But I want to ensure that those coming late to the party see that the complaint was about the former version of the page, not this new version. Jax MN (talk) 18:12, 22 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I've completed the revised article. The old content has been swapped out with new, including many references, cleaned up formatting and much reduction of fluff. Jax MN (talk) 21:01, 22 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for your efforts. It may help if you highlight here what the 2-4 best sources are for the topic (sources independent of MIT). — Rhododendrites talk \\ 21:17, 22 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Certainly. The previous article had 12 references, mostly from unreliable local chapter websites. The revised site has over 120 references. They include the 20th ed. (1991) of Baird's Manual, first published in 1879. It's considered the defacto reference standard for Greek letter organizations. I reviewed approximately 50 of the annual MIT Technique yearbooks, each edited by a separate editorial board and Editor-in-Chief, citing individual pages for every society which existed up until 1930 -- yearbooks are not available online after that year. For a deeper look at the history of the dozen Jewish fraternities at MIT (some current, some dormant) I cited a book by Marianne Rachel Sanua, Going Greek: Jewish College Fraternities in the United States, 1895-1945, which I summarized on the Talk page. --Interesting book. I also cited a white paper produced by the University's office of FSILGs (by Administrative staff, within Student Affairs) which I noted as the "FSILG report." I only found two errors on that otherwise comprehensive and valuable document. Almost all of the groups now note their address and website, which a Google Map search would confirm for physical presence. Finally, several contemporary newspaper articles are cited, where they had detail to offer. Where I didn't have a reference for an unknown detail I left a note, or question mark, or "xx" in a missing date. This is a collaborative, iterative process, after all. Jax MN (talk) 21:50, 22 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
From what I can tell though, while both Baird's Manual and Going Greek mention fraternities and sororities in depth, they fail to mention the importance of the specific grouping as it concerns MIT. Both books appear to mention the history/importance of the national organizations and then merely provide a list of schools that have a chapter, so a grouping that would indicate the notability of ]
  • Oh thank you. I'd like to explore your concerns further, so that I may offer more extensive references. Tell me,
  • Are you uncertain whether these organizations exist? Or that the earliest Greek societies appeared at MIT 150 years ago? I can prove that.
  • Are you unconvinced that they operate as a bloc, or shared-interest consortium, a community one might say, with shared interests, and have done so for over 130 years? I can prove that.
  • Are you skeptical that a plurality, or even a majority of undergrads at MIT have participated in these groups since about 1880? (I may be off by a year or two +/-. Forgive the sloppiness.) I can prove that.
  • Did you demur over the article's claim that today, about 1,000 students are active members, visiting or living at these Greek properties on a daily basis? I can prove that.
  • There is a Gallup survey of Greeks, nationally, that confirms a more positive student experience due to Greek participation. Fifty schools were surveyed, each with a corresponding, positive result. I can see if they included MIT in their pool. Without it, maybe the Greek administration office has done its own survey. One might infer from the popularity of these organizations that they do have their adherents and supporters.
  • Property records and comparable real estate sales ("comps") will show that the value of owned Greek properties is in excess of, say, $250M. I can trace property records back to the organizations themselves, via their alumni boards. This may take some time though, as due to COVID, some government offices are shut down and this AfD request is timed for a seven-day period. What to do? But I can prove this valuation.
  • Many of the references I cited were school yearbooks. Do you have a concern that there was a conspiracy to print sometimes 150 pages within each volume, dedicated to these organizations? Some might think that the persistence of these yearbook sections would prove the Greek-Letter organizations' influence and defacto presence on campus. I can prove that.
Now, maybe I took a shortcut, and ask that you correct me if this was wrong. In many of the yearbook references I cited, I did NOT provide an immediate link to them, only to the year and page #. The link to the trove of online yearbooks is at "MIT Technique yearbook archive" (accessed 23 Jun 2020), and is noted elsewhere in the article. But I can append that link and date of access to each of my yearbook references. Sorry.
  • On a related theme, my research shows that each yearbook was written, edited and is copyrighted by a separate governing board, with some staff continuing over a two-year span, but certainly no one except faculty advisors lasting on said board(s) for longer than 4 years. --Were you suspicious that a cadre of conspirators wrote these sections about perhaps fictitious groups? Each yearbook did contain a prank section, but I carefully avoided using any of that material. I could provide reference citations on these references themselves, linking to the printed page that lists the editors and board members. Alternatively, you might go to the cited yearbook, then page through to the front pages where the editors are listed, or to the end, where the rest of the board is photographed. (I may need help in providing nested references within the references. Can one even do that? But regardless, I'm game.)
  • ephemeral
    , fleeting sources like chapter websites (here today, gone tomorrow). Rather, they are from published books, Administration white papers, and professional staff research.
  • Wikipedia sometimes allows a preponderance of evidence in determining validity of a source. See
    WP:SELFSOURCE
    , and think my references pass the 5-point sniff test therein.
  • Some famous alumni indeed list their Greek membership on their CVs and such participation is noted on their biographical Wikipedia pages. I can search for these.
  • I'd estimate that at least 100,000 MIT graduates have Linked In pages, and if 40% participated in the Greek system, many will note this on those pages. Say that this is 5,000-10,000 people. My experience is that alumni Greeks often mention their participation with some pride, using this for networking or to show that they have social or emotional competency along with the likely technical competency that an MIT degree indicates. Would you require citations on the page for, say, 100 of these alumni? 500? I, or my heirs, could provide that.
I'm no slacker when it comes to research, and honestly wish to provide validation to this page, anything that a disinterested but diligent Wikipedia editor would require. With all this in mind, especially the points above about use of reliable sources from MIT administrative offices and the many yearbook editions, please let me know where I might allay yours or any concerns. With respect, Jax MN (talk) 18:00, 23 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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  • Certainly some refbombing going on here. At a glance, I think the topic has encyclopaedic value, but I'm not sure its current form does. Whether it can be fixed I'm not sure, but I respect the efforts of the above editors for trying. I lean towards keeping with significant cutting down, rewriting of parts and better sourcing, recognising that there is active work in attempting to fix it. At a glance the article appears to be in a better form than it was when the AfD started (Special:Permalink/962098874), but there's a lot of primary sources and refbombing going on, so the reality may be different with a closer inspection. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 14:35, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • I appreciate your viewpoint. Taking the perspective of a genealogical researcher or historical biographer, I thought the most useful citations for these researchers would drill down to a specific instance where one of the groups (fraternities often, but sometimes honorary societies, etc.) would provide new information, for example, a 1925 yearbook citation that explains a group was locally founded in 1917. This kind of thing is common, and with few exceptions (due to typos) these many available yearbook citations are internally consistent. Now, each group might have 40 similar citations available, but for brevity (and to your point) to avoid refbombing, I chose one or two that add new information: dates of local founding, chapter name, address, crest, first appearance, etc. Wikipedia often points the way for additional research lines, and is not intended to declare all valid references. There is a difficulty in pointing to the vast expanse of yearbook citations to show the first appearance, or validity of one of the Greek societies, in that, if I was to just say "see yearbooks" it wouldn't add much value. These volumes constitute over 50,000 pages. (150 years x average 350 pages each). Hence I listed the year and page number where one could find more detail about each specific group, but didn't add links... But if reviewers think that is necessary, I could. ...This was a compromise between differentiation and page bloat. For the many Greek society pages elsewhere this seems to be the accepted syntax.
In compared to the old (last month's) style, what this new version does is to reduce the tendency to editorial, self-serving bloat, because it doesn't offer each fraternity a paragraph on the mainspace to talk about the "virtues" of each chapter, as do pages for other (often prestige East Coast) schools. My new format of the page took those dozens of paragraphs away, replacing all of them with a bulleted list, ordered by date of founding. ~shorter.
I thank readers who see the encyclopaedic value here. Again, thank you User:ProcrastinatingReader for your measured review. Jax MN (talk) 17:23, 29 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep Among the different fraternities/sororities listed, several actually have independent and significant coverage in local news sites. Although the article has too much ]
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The result was keep. There appears to be sufficient coverage to support either an article on the Infinite Corridor or on MIThenge. Where exactly the material should go is an editorial decision that can be discussed on the talk page. King of ♥ 22:33, 3 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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While certainly more interesting than most school corridors, I struggle to believe this is considered notable beyond maybe a sentence or two in Campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. I understand this article has been at AfD 10 years ago and passed based on a few clickbait-y headlines in some smaller outlets about "MIThenge", beyond that this hallway has never had significant coverage in secondary sources, a few passing mentions here and there though. If kept at least half the article likely needs trimming. EoRdE6(Come Talk to Me!) 04:10, 12 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Keep per SerAntoniDeMiloni. It does meet notability, and though it may need work,
    WP:AFDISNOTCLEANUP. On a slightly unrelated note, I recall this corridor also being featured in Good Will Hunting, and is also the subject of mention in other films and books. Yes, most of the current sources aren't great or independent, but independent ones do exist, as SerAntoni has pointed out. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 14:43, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply
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  • Just as a factual clarification for SerAntoniDeMiloni and ProcrastinatingReader, none of those numbers are right, even if they are blatantly copy-pasted from the first AfD. Your own Google Books link returns 8 unique results when excluding duplicates and cross references. The "145 scholarly mentions" are almost exclusively superfluous remarks in acknowledgments such as While walking through the Infinite Corridor, the main artery that connects MIT’s buildings, a member of Campus Crusade for Christ handed me a free copy of The Case for a Creator by Lee Strobel. None of them are in depth, independent, secondary sources. They are almost exclusively from papers written by MIT students mentioning random anecdotes, not actually discussing the corridor itself, and are therefore irrelevant. The Wired article is by an MIT alum, is two paragraphs long and exclusively discusses the MITHenge event. The Buffalo News article mentions the corridor in one sentence of a length article about Harvard, MIT and Cambridge in general (archived version) and in no way represents in depth coverage. The Kansas and Dallas article is (archived here) once again a single sentence mention in a lengthy travel article about Cambridge and does not represent in depth coverage. Exact same story with the Boston.com article, a passing mention in an article about Cambridge [40] (note that Boston.com is the local news version of BostonGlobe and has lower editorial standards too). The book was written by a non-notable MIT employee and once again doesn't provide any in depth coverage. I would appreciate more thought than linkbombing useless articles from a previous AfD debate. EoRdE6(Come Talk to Me!) 15:43, 1 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was delete. Although merge was suggested, I see a strong consensus to delete and not merge. ♠PMC(talk) 21:23, 8 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Camp Bow Wow

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Has some coverage, but I don't think it meets

WP:ORG. A clear advert, so if kept would need TNTing. Boleyn (talk) 19:11, 19 June 2020 (UTC)[reply
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  • Comment. There was actually very little "advert" language that needed trimming, what remains seems pretty straightforward and descriptive even if it can be improved further. Pro tip: TNT is almost never the right answer. No opinion at this time on notability. postdlf (talk) 20:34, 19 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment Current does not prove notability for wp:Corp. References are just announcements or stock listing, reuter link no longer works.Delete if no one one improves it and proves notability.User:Davidstewartharvey
  • Delete Non-notable, not meeting GNG. --Micky (talk) 01:49, 20 June 2020 (UTC) Blocked sockpuppet -Malcolmxl5 (talk) 04:42, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Merge and redirect into Heidi Ganahl, which admittedly has similar problems with promotional tone & COI editing history, but will pass (for now). This one definitely does not. --Lockley (talk) 09:50, 24 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was keep.

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Doesn't meet

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The result was soft delete. Based on

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No evidence of any notability for this company. It has made a few headlines for all the wrong reasons and seems to be at legal war with Apple. Despite this, none of the refs really talk about the company, just the legal fight. The only other ref is a review of the software, not the company. Fails

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  • Weak delete. As nom points out, this company seems mainly famous for being sued by Apple. Two or three of the sources are primary & worthless. Article creator is now blocked -- not for promotion or for COI but for running multiple accounts. --Lockley (talk) 22:54, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was delete. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 16:50, 3 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Kentrell

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This person is not notable. "Kentrell" the mononym mainly has results for "YoungBoy Never Broke Again", A different artist, whose first name is Kentrell. When I look for "Marcus Kentrell Brown" the results are mainly direct from the wikipedia, or they are social media. I couldn't even find a website of their own. (I'm pretty new to this, please go easy) Trevey-On-Sea (talk) 09:52, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was redirect to Drama teaching techniques#Drama games. King of ♥ 22:30, 3 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Bang! (drama game)

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nonnotable student, child, or improve game for a group. one reference does show it exists, [41], but could not find any discussion of the game as particularly interesting. youtube video of it is one of dozens of such games. Mercurywoodrose (talk) 02:38, 12 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was keep.

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Kechara Soup Kitchen

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Non notable company/organization. Fails

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The result was redirect to

WP:ATD for albums is to redirect to artist. ♠PMC(talk) 21:22, 8 July 2020 (UTC)[reply
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Fails

WP:GNG. Redirecting, too, isn't possible because there should be atleast one source for its track listing and charting history which isn't the case. Pesticide1110 (talk) 12:12, 18 June 2020 (UTC)[reply
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  • @Sandstein: I don't see anyone commenting on this page even if we leave it as it is for years. I suggest you to read my nomination reason completely, judge whether it is valid or not and then take an action that is positively complying with your own conscience about this. This is a fairly easy topic for you to sort out so everybody will trust your judgement. Regards Pesticide1110 Lets wrestle! 16:09, 1 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Pesticide1110 I disagree. We shouldn't rush deletion discussions. Kind regards from PJvanMill (talk) 20:42, 6 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was delete. It's pretty clear that the consensus is that this should not exist as is, it's not so clear what should be done with it. I've added a see also in Identity (mathematics) to Factorization. If anyone feels that this is not enough and wants a further merge, you are welcome to place a redirect to the desired merge target and I will undelete the history under it on request. SpinningSpark 10:43, 6 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Remarkable identities

ATTENTION! I rename the article. Vorov (talk) 18:59, 18 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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The subject of this article is not a thing: the collection of trivial algebraic identities discussed here is not treated as a single topic in any sources, and is certainly not treated under the name "remarkable identities". The place one might find such a list is a textbook on algebra (perhaps in Russian, since the article is partly written in some language that uses the Cyrillic alphabet), but Wikipedia is not a textbook.

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"Remarkable" is a common adjective in English; it means "worth noting" or "worth commenting on". In my own papers I have called things "remarkable formulas" but they do not belong in Wikipedia under that name. --]
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I'm not a massive fan of those articles either but there are a few ways they improve on this one:
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The result was keep. 78.26 (spin me / revolutions) 18:51, 6 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Promotional autobiography. Sources are not independent (e.g. author bios). PROD removed earlier in its life by 4the creator, Eirikurbergmann, who is essentially the sole editor. Tagged as lacking sources since forver. Guy (help!) 15:43, 18 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was keep.

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Barbara Snow (therapist)

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Lacks WP:GNG, the refs given are of one source and this one cannot be called a reliable one

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  • Strong Keep. This article is clearly controversial and polarizing, neither of which are valid reasons to delete or censor.
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"Lacks
WP:GNG
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Per
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"refs given are of one source and this one cannot be called a reliable one" I am truly mystified as to what the "one" source is referred to. The sources mentioned here include
WP:NEWSORG
"News reporting from well-established news outlets is generally considered to be reliable for statements of fact". Please reconsider and clarify which source is not reliable.
"She is a very fringe character" Not according to the sources. She was and still is extremely influential in the SRA movement in Utah, and the broader movement in general. She is notable enough to even receive mentions in several other articles.
"The article does not give broad enough context." Per
WP:ATD
: "Disputes over page content are usually not dealt with by deleting the page". This article is less than 24 hours old. The solution should not be to delete it, but to add context.
"It also engages in coat racking and chracter assasination against a person that there is zero evidence they ever in any way intervened in the matter." Are you referring to Barbara Snow? Who is the coatracked/character assasinated person? This seems more a conversation worthy of the talk page, to ensure information is accurate and presented in a NPOV way.
"There is no evidence that the 1985 accusations outcome was in any way influenced by anyone acting on behalf of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" Per
WP:ATD
: "Disputes over page content are usually not dealt with by deleting the page". As far as content, that's why words such as "alleged" and "accused of" are used. If there is a more NPOV way to present it, it should be changed. This is not germane to the deletion discussion however.
"These false abbuse accusations were a nationwide phenomenon, they were not limited to Utah, this needs much better context than the article on this very minor person could ever provide." The article never says the accusations were true. The article never said it wasn't a nationwide phenomenon. It never said it wasn't limited to Utah. This article isn't about SRA. Again, the solution should be to add context, not delete the article. Per
WP:ATD
: "Disputes over page content are usually not dealt with by deleting the page"

I completely agree that there needs to be more context. There should be an entire article on SRA moral panic and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to provide that context. In fact there was one, but it mysteriously disappeared even though the result of the discussion was to keep. Clearly this is embarrassing and polarizing. But neither of these reasons are reasons for censorship.

First of all - no one is going to censor your article and of course it is not nominated because of being polarizing (which I do not see at all). The sources you cited in your table do not exist in the article, perhaps you are confusing with some other article?! Simply the subject does lack notability and you have to show notability directly at the time of publishing...not somewhat later. If you want to improve/work on the article you can ask for moving it back to your sandbox. ]
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    WP:RSPSOURCES list anyway. If Alex Jones were able to write a scientific paper, get it peer reviewed and published in the most prestigious scientific journal, then I would argue that it is ok. @JzG:, as you were the one that closed the discussion, can you comment? Did you intend to mark Massimo Introvigne as not a reliable source in addition to CESNUR? Epachamo (talk) 14:27, 20 June 2020 (UTC)[reply
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    WP:COAT, "a coatrack article is a Wikipedia article that gets away from its nominal subject, and instead gives more attention to one or more connected but tangential subjects." I assume the "tangential subject" is Satanic Ritual Abuse(SRA)? If not, please let me know what you feel it is and I will address that as well. Study into Snow's life shows that SRA is anything but tangential but a integral part of who she is and her mission. She is unapologetic about it. If Snow herself read the article, I feel confident she would agree, based on her publications, participation in various prosecutions and testimonies of her patients. She might disagree with the characterization of SRA being a moral panic, but that is the scientific consensus that should be reflected in Wikipedia. To really get a deep background, I recommend blog about Barbara Snow from a PHD Psychologist, Discussion of Snow and her techniques, Gizmodo podcast about Teal Swan that discusses Snow and her techniques,further information about Snow (a lot of these references are not wikipedia appropriate, but provide a a quick if sometimes biased view of Snow that should help provide rapid context to make a judgement on whether the emphasis on SRA is coatracking). Epachamo (talk) 03:40, 20 June 2020 (UTC)[reply
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  • Keep as notable, with the improvements made since the nomination. Epachamo has done good work. If kept, there should one or two sentences in the lead describing Snow's downgraded professional qualifications. A thin line to walk in a BLP but it can be done factually. --Lockley (talk) 22:32, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep I'm going to go with keep here, too. Subject seems notable, and while the article does need a bit of cleaning up, it is far from needing to be deleted. Also, the worry about Introvigne, while understandable, seems somewhat inappropriate here (his book, after all, was published by Brill—which is a very reputable academic publisher—and was published as a volume of an edited series; I wouldn't be surprised if the book was peer-reviewed, too).--Gen. Quon (Talk) 20:04, 29 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep. Achieving notability is independent of what kind of person the subject is. The subject appears to meet, at least,
    WP:GNG. The content of the article is worth discussing on the article's talk page but I cannot see how the subject doesn't meet notability guidelines. That's what is being discussed here, not the treatment of the subject in the article. Ifnord (talk) 22:19, 4 July 2020 (UTC)[reply
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The result was no consensus. leaning towards delete. If it isn't improved, or can't be improved, I would expect it to land at AFD again with a different outcome. I would note that some of the "keep" votes were not policy based, and the sources provided in the discussion were not really the quality we look for when claiming an organization is notable. After teetering between delete and no consensus, I ended up here. Dennis Brown - 01:23, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Center for Minorities and People with Disabilities in Information Technology

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KEEP. The CMD-IT organization presents a variety of programs that have been covered in multiple publications including https://www.professionalwomanmag.com/2017/10/georgia-tech-received-cmd-university-award-retention-minorities-students-disabilities-computer-science/ ; https://www.valleymorningstar.com/2019/07/03/utrgvs-villalobos-receives-national-award-scientific-scholarship-stem-leadership/; https://cra.org/crn/2020/02/expanding-the-pipeline-the-2019-cmd-it-university-award-best-practices/ - these will be added to the page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jerribarrett (talkcontribs) 21:13, 24 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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    WP:NONPROFIT as a national organisation with several significant projects and coverage in reliable independent sources. The closer should note that some comments above were made when the article had significantly fewer sources. The best sources here include Aspray, CRA and GATech. — Bilorv (talk) 22:03, 1 July 2020 (UTC)[reply
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The result was soft delete. Based on

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Ali Chant

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Lots of supposed but no real secondary sources, sufficient to establish

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The result was delete. czar 08:38, 3 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

American Turkish Friendship Council

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A non-notable organization with very little coverage, no sources are used in this article. James Richards (talk) 16:53, 18 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Old building (not registered on

NRHP), cannot find sources or content to support notability. Only sources in the article are directory-style travel guides and a passing mention ("What's Doing in Bucks County") in NYT. Schazjmd (talk) 17:14, 18 June 2020 (UTC)[reply
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The result was soft delete. Based on

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Non-notable band. GhostDestroyer100 (talk) 17:20, 11 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Non-notable punk band from Virginia. The sourcing in the article is poor, the only source that provides notability is Allmusic. I know that having poor sourcing is not a reason to delete an article because there might be some good sources on Google but this time, the results on Google were not any better either. Like in the case with non-notable bands, the results are unreliable stuff like Discogs, Bandcamp, Spotify, the site of their record labels, Last.fm, news about other bands releasing an album/single with this title (there are cases when other bands share the name with the group I am nominating), and books where only the words are mentioned but not about the group itself. I also searched for their albums but couldn't find anything besides blogs, fan pages, streaming service links, song lyrics sites, download sites and retail sites. When a band has an Allmusic biography, it is a good sign. But when it has no other reliable sources, it's a bad sign and that makes the group not suitable for this encyclopedia. GhostDestroyer100 (talk) 17:19, 11 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was delete. czar 08:36, 3 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Ron Wear

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I'm aware that this was kept before here: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ron Wear, but the reasons to keep in 2015 seem to no longer apply. As of today in 2020, I found zero sources on him except the UGC modelmayhem and other UGC like his website, twitter, Facebook, which I understand are all considered generally unreliable. All links in his references section are broken and unarchived except for modelmayhem. I don't know what people are referring to when they say newspaper articles cited provide significant coverage, "ten secondary sources", etc; perhaps those articles have disappeared over the years and nobody archived them so they are just lost now. If someone can add those articles back, there could be an argument to keep it. At this point, there are 4 sources, zero of which are any good, and I merged his info into Miss BC anyway. --Wiki2008time (talk) 21:37, 11 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Someone suggested I make a redirect for a similarly sparse article (
    Darren Storsley) that I merged into Miss BC instead of PROD, so I did - I am unsure if I am allowed to do that with an article that has had a previous AfD/active AfD. --Wiki2008time (talk) 15:18, 12 June 2020 (UTC) blocked sockpuppet ~ Amkgp 💬 16:56, 27 June 2020 (UTC)[reply
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  • Obviously nobody cares about this and it's non-controversial. I wanted to just create a PROD but someone told me I need to make an AfD when something has had a previous AfD, not PROD, even though the grounds of the original AfD Keep no longer apply (none of those citations are available any more). --Wiki2008time (talk) 02:31, 19 June 2020 (UTC) blocked sockpuppet ~ Amkgp 💬 16:56, 27 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Redirect to Miss BC as I already merged his info onto that page. I felt that would be more appropriate than having his own article given the poor citations. I'm not sure if I'm allowed to just go ahead and create a redirect when something had a prior AfD even though the grounds it was kept on no longer apply. --Wiki2008time (talk) 02:32, 19 June 2020 (UTC) blocked sockpuppet ~ Amkgp 💬 16:56, 27 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
If anybody is taking a look at this (and information which I did not know at the time): User:Wiki2008time has now been banned for sockpuppetry, but this was before that. Not quite sure it's a speedy keep (since AFAICS they have not been confirmed to another prior blocked user, only to another account of theirs), but if you feel like it is then feel free to... RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 19:16, 19 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete. Despite the sock-puppetry, I'm fairly convinced this fails
    WP:NMODEL. The subject of the article won Mr. World Canada, but I don't think this is an automatic qualification for notability. The subject's acting roles (as reported on the article and his IMDb page) are all either uncredited or rather minor. And I can't find any additional significant coverage of the subject. BenKuykendall (talk) 18:49, 21 June 2020 (UTC)[reply
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The result was keep. 78.26 (spin me / revolutions) 18:49, 6 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Sinndoor Tere Naam Ka

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Non-notable 17jiangz1 (talk) 09:28, 11 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi 17jiangz1, Why are you want delete all the pages from wikipedia. Please don't delete pages like

Sindoor Tere Naam Ka, Iqbal Azad
, etc. If you find some faults in these pages, you can improve this pages. But please do not delete this pages. Kaitudi (talk) 09:52, 11 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Keep per
    WP:NTV, which says, "Generally, an individual radio or television program is likely to be notable if it airs on a network of radio or television stations (either national or regional in scope), or on a cable television channel with a broad regional or national audience." This is a soap opera broadcast for two years on Zee TV, a national channel in India. I don't have the expertise to know where the good sources are for Indian soap operas so I don't have a good GNG defense, but since there's essentially no stated rationale for deletion, I think NTV is a good enough defense. — Toughpigs (talk) 02:47, 19 June 2020 (UTC)[reply
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    WP:NTV's purpose in that statement is to suggest that reliable sources may exist. In either case, however, the presence or absence of reliable sources is more definitive than the geographic range of the program's audience alone. So let's take a look at what we already have: the first is a trivial mention, the second is a far more trivial mention. The second source is actually about an actress being topless on a beach, and as a passing mention it says that she acted in the show. It takes up exactly 4 words of the article, and solely in name. So, considering the state its currently in, we don't meet notability. The next question is can it meet notability? It's a 2005-07 show; I can't find sources with a quick search, but recognise some may not be in English. Unless sources can be shown in this AfD, I think it probably doesn't have the significant media coverage required and should be deleted - we aren't IMDb. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 14:57, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply
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  • Weak keep. Given a paaragraph in this book in the context of media gender stereotyping, and discussed Busineess Week as a hit show helping to turn the fortunes of Zee TV. There's more than can be seen in that snippet, see this from the previous page of the journal. I agree that there may be some systemic bias going on here due to the difficulty of searching for Hindi language sources. Having said that, the sources one tends to find from India are trash celebrity-worship articles. India does not seem to produce the fandom encyclopaedias of soap operas that we get in the West, leading to a lack of decent reliable sources for programmes that may nevertheless have a huge, dedicated following. SpinningSpark 23:06, 5 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was no consensus. King of ♥ 22:22, 3 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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The subject fails

WP:GNG. No credible claim of notability. Several sources fail significant coverage. Likely self-promotion. Solopsist (talk) 23:12, 18 June 2020 (UTC)[reply
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In particular, the English Journal interview is a fantastic in-depth article, but I didn't cite it to support my statements because it's a paper magazine in Japanese and hard to get hold of unless you actually go to a library in Japan. However, reading the exact wording of Wikipedia:Verifiability#Non-English_sources, I probably should. --朝彦 | Asahiko (talk) 03:37, 20 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was keep. bibliomaniac15 04:21, 5 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

List of film sequels by box-office improvement

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The main premise of this list---measuring the box office "improvement" of a film compared to its preceding film---appears to be an exercise in

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  • Keep. Some of it is synthesis (nth sequel) and should be deleted, but sequel box office analysis is done a lot.[44][45][46][47] Clarityfiend (talk) 08:33, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    • Would you support removing all of the other information besides just the film-to-direct-sequel tables? Axem Titanium (talk) 18:23, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
      • Sure. Only the first two tables are worth keeping. Clarityfiend (talk) 08:21, 27 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
        • These are the tables in the chart that I have the biggest problem with keeping and would be ok with them being deleted. I think these are likely OR or SYNTH. I don't recall seeing any charts published to show a list of films with the biggest improvement. Yes, there are charts showing comparison but not comparing those comparisons. I did note in the Film Facts book that it did show Austin Powers as the best by improvement (presumably using US grosses rather than worldwide) but I think it is a bit of a stretch to generate a table like this. This is why I cut the table down from the mass list that it was as it wasn't really supportable. I would be happy for these two tables to be deleted and for it just to show the top grossing sequels, as these are direct from the highest-grossing lists of all-time published and The Numbers has a similar chart, as well as the position ones as again, these are direct from the charts and Variety has published comparisons for third, fourth, second films in a series in the past. I think the history is important too otherwise, as with many other lists of Wikipedia, it just becomes a list of current things and ignores the past. If the suggestion is to only keep the first two tables, I would vote to delete the whole article.Sudiani (talk) 08:41, 27 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
          • After looking over those first two tables, I would just combine them into one, as the criteria differentiating them are rather arbitrary. Here's another article/list (from The Hollywood Reporter): "29 Sequels That Outgrossed the Original Movies (Photos)". Clarityfiend (talk) 06:06, 29 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
            • TompaDompa did try it combined but I think one table is a mess with two criteria driving what appears in it. I think it is better separated to understand the criteria for inclusion in each list. The only way I see it working as one table is to have it by a certain gross differential AND a certain percentage, however, this likely means that you only show the highest-grossing which is not really the point of the comparison. If I were to choose one chart over the other, I prefer the percentage increase one.Sudiani (talk) 21:11, 29 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • KEEP Clarityfiend has found reliable sources covering this. Dream Focus 10:26, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep per Clarityfiend's sources. Box Office Mojo also publishes analyses like these all of the time. — Toughpigs (talk) 16:08, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep As I added some of the newer tables, let me explain the reasoning and the sources behind these. I'm not entirely clear what this SYNTH argument is but don't think it particularly applies here. As now, box office charts of the highest-grossing films have been published for almost 90 years. Based on those, especially Variety's annual lists of the highest-grossing films of all time, it is relatively easy to see which were the highest-grossing sequels every year. Now that sites like Box Office Mojo exist, it is easier to see throughout a year where sequels placed so you can look at the archived records on the Wayback Machine to see the placing of the sequels during 2015. I started off by posting a chart that Variety published based on data from EDI showing the top grossing fourth chapters from the 1990s. As later data is available, it is relatively simple to take the data from the highest-grossing sequels since then to update the chart and all can be supported by looking either at Variety's lists of all-time top grossing films or from archives from Box Office Mojo. The two areas, where it is harder to provide sources is the fact that the Variety's earlier records are for domestic grosses rather than worldwide grosses, however, are a good indication of the highest grossing-sequels worldwide at certain points in time in history and so far all have worldwide data, possibly with the exception of the Bells of St Mary where there is a worldwide rental figure of $10m but some sources (inc Wikipedia) show a US gross of $20m. The other issue is where a sequel appears in a series. With the current trend to have "universes" rather than just series it makes it a little harder and different sources group things together and separately so there is no real consensus as to where a film is placed but it is pretty obvious that something like the Hobbit trilogy can be treated as separate to the Lord of the Rings film and multiple sources support these and this was the reasoning with the intro to explain this but is based on how BOM and The Numbers group things. Also, if it is decided to keep, please can we agree a consensus for a name change. I suggested List of film sequels by box office. Not that I can provide an online source as the online version on Internet Archive is an older edition, but the 2001 edition of Film Facts (previously Guinness Book of Movie Facts and Feats) under sequels listed the most successful sequel in terms of improvement (Austin Powers at the time) and the highest-grossing sequel (Lost World and Star Wars Episode I) so these are lists that major books include.Sudiani (talk) 18:39, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete per ]
  • Keep I won't deny there are problems with this list (for example, is the
    record for highest-grossing 4th instalment really a thing?) but the box-office performance of sequels is clearly a notable topic with plenty of published writing on the subject (see this chart for example). The title of the article is arguably ill-fitting too. I really don't think scrubbing the whole article is the correct course of action. The subject (if not all the charts in the article) is clearly notable. This discussion needs to closed as a "keep" and a new one needs to be started on the talk page about what format the article should take and what information should be included. Betty Logan (talk) 15:59, 27 June 2020 (UTC)[reply
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  • Comment I WP:Proposed deletion back when the article looked like this (and when I found it, it looked like this). My main reason for doing so was that the underlying premise of the article at that time was comparing the improvements within one series to the improvements within another series, and no source making that comparison of comparisons had been presented. Since then, the focus of the article has shifted somewhat and it is no longer solely about the improvements from one installment to the next (though the title has not yet been changed to reflect that; my suggestion would be to rename this List of film sequels by box-office performance). I'm not sure if this is worth keeping—we have way too many box office lists as it is—but it really needs to be clarified what this list is supposed to be if it is to be kept. TompaDompa (talk) 22:21, 2 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep The subject of films having sequels improving or worsening at the box office is a topic that gets a ton of coverage.]
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The result was delete. czar 08:33, 3 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Cthulhu Mythos supernatural characters

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What makes the characters in this de facto list pass

WP: NFICTION? Also, which source even calls them supernatural? Note that some of this is simple 'see also articles that are about to be deleted' like Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Clark Ashton Smith deities... Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 07:10, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply
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The result was delete. SpinningSpark 22:28, 5 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Cancelled UFC event on April 9, 2020

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I have nominated this article for deletion because a UFC event for April 9, 2020 was never planned in the first place. All of its citations refer to a UFC event that was being planned for June 13 at Astana Arena in Kazakhstan, not April 9. — 29cwcst (talk) 04:45, 18 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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But they were indeed cancelled. This article says there was an event booked for April 9 in Kazakhstan that was cancelled and everything in it is wrong. There was never an event planned for April 9; the Kazakhstan event was planned for June 13, then the UFC decided to cancel that location and relocated the event for Las Vegas, keeping the same date. This article is completely false. Gsfelipe94 (talk) 19:51, 27 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Comment If the date is incorrect titled then just change the article title to "Cancelled UFC event on June 13, 2020" instead of deletion as the sources support the content and the article meets ]
You already knew that from the start, but did not change. And again, that event was not cancelled like the other ones. The host was cancelled and relocated on the same date. You simply changed a title from an article that was supposed to be a redirect until an event was announced. This goes against what you said on the UFC 249 merge situation. You keep contradicting yourself. Gsfelipe94 (talk) 13:22, 28 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
You keep the rest of the cancelled event; yet why single this out when the it meets notability guidelines? Article in Wikipedia is all about veribility and meets notability. Thank you.]
I just mentioned it above. The other events were cancelled and not relocated. They have the correct titles for the original main events. You redirected an article to one that has a wrong date and wrong info. The June 13 event, originally scheduled for Kazakhstan, was rescheduled for Las Vegas and took place on the originally planned date. That's pretty clear. This article has nothing to do with others that were cancelled and you know that, though you act like you don't. Everyone but you agrees on that. It is simply a duplicate. Gsfelipe94 (talk) 16:17, 29 June 2020 (UTC
my comment is based on Wikipedia notability guidelines and not about my liking. The article should be merged in the first place but you seem opposite it and now you would like to delete a article that pass the notability guidelines which to me it doesnt make sense.]
You moved the UFC Fight Night 176 to this title. You could've kept it as a redirect until the 176 event took place. Then when I asked you about this article, you simply mentioned that is has sources enough to keep it going, even though it has a lot of flaws and it's a duplicate. Gsfelipe94 (talk) 21:41, 30 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
then the page should be merged then. We dont delete a page which pass notability guidelines. We could keep, redirect or merge the article, but you voted oppose to all mere of UFC event included UFC 249 and later you agreed. As we all know it is extremely common UFC events do change headline, cancelled bouts, or change bouts or at time change date. We dont need to keep the same format of the event page all the time, for if new info comes up then we add the info in the body text. The point is the article meet notability guidelines for such it doesnt meet AfD criteria. Thank you.]
Should have simply redirected the original title to List of UFC events and then it would be redirected to the official UFC Fight Night 176. Just adding random info into it makes no sense. Gsfelipe94 (talk) 23:16, 30 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I believe merge to ]
  • Fbdave, pls read the above comments. Title date can be changed and the page pass notability guidelines, either keep or merge with ]
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The result was no consensus. However, there is consensus that it should not be kept in its current form, so it will be moved to List of earthquakes in Haryana. King of ♥ 22:19, 3 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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It's not completely clear what the topic is: a history/list of earthquakes in Haryana or specifically the earthquakes of May 2020. I'm having trouble deciphering what's written and the topic—but of course, difficulty reading is not a criterion for deletion, and it's clearly not A1 or G1.

If it's the former, it's a

WP:NEVENT in that there is no lasting impact of these earthquakes, coverage is not lasting (only a few trivial mentions), and predicting future earthquakes (such as a "big one" after these "foreshocks") is impossible. Unless there is evidence of lasting impact or notability, these earthquakes do not seem to pass the notability threshold. ComplexRational (talk) 01:15, 18 June 2020 (UTC)[reply
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  • Delete: Haryana is an administrative area of India "carved out on a linguistic basis". Earthquake occurrence is unrelated to either administration or linguistics. It is not therefore a coherent topic, and to edit the article into correctly written English would probably not leave three consecutive words unchanged. So there is no value in it. Imaginatorium (talk) 06:17, 18 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep and rename to
    WP:LISTN. The poor English and incomplete listing are page quality issues which there is no deadline to fix and the article is eminently savable. This is not a TNT case. The number of earthquakes that occur in Haryana (dozens of recorded ones over the years reported in reliable sources) clearly justifies a separate listing to List of earthquakes in India which is anyway only a listing of major earthquakes (not all earthquakes covered in reliable sources). FOARP (talk) 07:16, 18 June 2020 (UTC)[reply
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  • Delete per
    WP:NOTNEWS. The events only attracted one-off coverage. desmay (talk) 19:33, 18 June 2020 (UTC)[reply
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This doesn't matter as the subject is a list, not an event-article per se. The relevant guide is
WP:LISTN. Earthquakes in Haryana have been studied and listed in scholarly articles including, e.g., 1 2 3. FOARP (talk) 17:15, 19 June 2020 (UTC)[reply
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The result was no consensus. King of ♥ 22:17, 3 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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May not pass

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  • Keep, there are some decent sources like TechCrunch. The article doesn't have much information, I dunno how it could be expanded, there isn't a lot of English info out there I guess. --Ysangkok (talk) 03:49, 30 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete Most startups are not notable and this one is no exception. All the sources (with the exception of TechCrunch) are the usual funding announcements which are not enough to satisfy CORPDEPTH. Even the TechCrunch one is somewhat an interview-ish article. It is a case of TOOSOON. ]
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Article subject is a new digital news service in India lacking any claim of notability as well as reliable independent sources. Mccapra (talk) 21:03, 17 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was merge to New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. King of ♥ 22:16, 3 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Defunct New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association conferences

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  • Merge / Redirect to New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association which should have been the ab initio solution here. Alansohn (talk) 20:16, 17 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    • @Alansohn: - While a redirect is reasonable, especially if targeted to the realignment section, where the concept of conferences becoming defunct is broadly discussed, I am strongly opposed to a merge, since the list article is completely unsourced.Hog Farm (talk) 21:45, 17 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
      • Hog Farm, the material is encyclopedic and readily sourceable, as has already been done by the article's creator and by me. I'd be happy to add more sourcing at some point, but regardless of what happens here the material will eventually be added in some form to the article for New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association, because it belongs there. I hope that you'll change your mind and join me in supporting a merge / redirect. Alansohn (talk) 22:33, 17 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
        • I would support a merge now I guess. There doesn't seem to be an overall list of New Jersey high school athletic conferences, so the best merger point would be the realignment section, to kinda state that the list was the list of conferences that were disbanded as a result of realignment. If you support that merge target, I'll withdraw this nomination. Since you seem to be more familiar with the subject matter than I am, would you be willing to perform the merger after I withdraw? Hog Farm (talk) 22:48, 17 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I tend to disagree that this would fail the guidelines, specifically with this grouping. While you may not find an article that will list every former conference in the list, you will find plenty that mention multiple conferences, and these overlap with each other. Also, this article (<http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/498965784/>), while not listing every conference, specifically states that every conference in northern New Jersey was folded into new leagues during the realignment. The logical implication is that all of the conferences in the list are grouped together in being folded at roughly the same time. I do see how attaching this list to the main NJSIAA page would make sense at first, however, once the list gets longer once more research into older conferences is done, it may end up being too cumbersome of a list to be on the main page. There are some states (like Ohio) where lists are so long they have to be broken up in some way. Generally, lists like these are considered acceptable, despite toeing the line of the guidelines if taken literally, because of navigation and conciseness concerns. There's no reason to have five or six pages of lists because of grouping concerns, when you can have the entire list on one page and use less space.Mtndrums (talk) 22:00, 17 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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It's keep, using the above-mentioned supporting statements.Mtndrums (talk) 09:48, 30 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Phil Monsour (Musician)

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In the current version of the article lacks WP:MUSICBIO, has not been the subject of multiple, non-trivial, published works appearing in sources that are reliable, not self-published, and are independent of the musician itself.

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  • Delete - Even though he has been around for a long time with many albums released, he has not received very many reviews or other coverage. I found one robust album review at [55], but that is in a specialist publication and it is still just one review. Otherwise, all that can be found online are the typical streaming and self-promotional sites. Also note that you may find some topical articles that the musician wrote himself, but those do not count for the notability of his music career. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (Talk|Contribs) 20:55, 17 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was delete. This discussion was made much more difficult than it needed to be by a large contingent of clearly externally canvassed participants. Those organising such campaigns need to understand that they almost never have the desired effect. In fact, they are likely to have precisely the opposite effect. Wikipedia editors will become suspicious and start examining the article in much greater detail than they otherwise would. As it says in the hatnote to this discussion, this is not a vote; mere expressions of support for the article are ignored. What is needed is evidence of notability and this was either completely lacking from most on the keep side, or else they showed an utter misunderstanding of what Wikipedia's definition of notability is.

Only Macedonia1913 made a fair attempt at presenting sources, but these were largely rejected by other editors. Rathfelder gave some support, but their rationale was largely an OTHERSTUFF argument which, as closer, I'm obliged to ignore. That may (or may not) be a good argument for changing guidelines, but it has no bearing on this AfD. The one source that was generally accepted as counting towards notability was the European Diaspora in Australia book. However, it was agreed that this by itself was insufficient to meet Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies). I also note that the book is published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing who have an extremely poor reputation for fact checking and editorial oversight and are on some versions of Beall's List so this source is marginal at best.

There was some discussion of the dissertation being used as a source. Some editors seem to have confused this with a Doctoral thesis. It is not, it is for a Master's degree, as clearly stated on its title page. Doctoral theses are peer reviewed and considered part of the accepted body of scholarly knowledge. Master's theses are not. Nobody argued that this work "had significant scholarly influence" as required by

WP:SCHOLARSHIP
and pointed out by several particicpants. Its hard to see how they could have done since gscholar shows that it has no citations in other works.

Some editors requested that the page be salted. I'm declining to do that, this one is borderline enough that it may be possible to show notability in the future. However, I strongly recommend that any new draft is done by an experienced Wikipedia editor. A third AfD like this one will almost certainly end with the page being pernamently protected from recreation. SpinningSpark 01:56, 5 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

United Macedonian Diaspora

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Not a notable organization with very little coverage. The page for this organization has already been deleted one before.

Additionally, it is important to note that members of this organisation have critized before the deletion of this page blaming it on 'Bulgarian & Greek paid wikipedia editors' (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxS5tZc-yf4) as well as recently creating some kind of 'Wikipedia taskforce'. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsXGhAhd7qc) James Richards (talk) 14:58, 17 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Oppose. I re-created the article because I believe there is sufficient coverage of it to exist. There are reliable independent sources like these [56] [57] which cover the subject with good depth. There are several other sources, such as the US Census Bureau, that describe the organization more briefly. Comparing to other diaspora articles that exist, this one has at least as good coverage in RS (yes, I know wp:OTHER but nonetheless worth stating). The second part of the nominator's rationale is irrelevant and does not apply to my editing of this article. --Local hero talk 15:09, 17 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Comment on the two above sources: The first source is a reliable source, but two pages of coverage in a large book are not enough to substantiate an entire Wikipedia article in my opinion. The second article is not a reliable source, it's a thesis, see ]

Oppose. The opinions of individual members of the organization does not represent the opinions of the organization as a whole. The organization has been influential in the Macedonian diaspora, being the main arm of the Macedonian diaspora in the United States, whilst having a significant presence in Canada and Australia as well. --Dikaiosyni —Preceding undated comment added 15:22, 17 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

  • Comment. The first source User:Local hero presented is good. The second is a PhD thesis, so not really reliable. pburka (talk) 15:37, 17 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Response I was referring to User:Local hero's comment on what an individual member of UMD said regarding Wikipedia as representing the organization as a whole, using it to justify why the UMD article should be deleted. The comments made by an individual UMD member should not be taken into account. --Dikaiosyni (talk) 15:47, 17 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    • Comment: You are right, the fact that the organization is recruiting volunteers in WhatsApp & private invite-only Facebook group for "Rapid Response" on Wikipedia is not a criterion for article deletion. Yet, so far we haven't seen any significant independent source. The "2020 Census" one is close but can be qualified as a "dependent source" as part of the "Partner Spotlight". --StanProg (talk) 08:27, 19 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
      • The 2020 census is still very trivial coverage. This basically counts as a "listing" per the examples of trivial coverage on ORGDEPTH. It isn't anywhere close to the examples of substantial coverage on ORGDEPTH. The policy is very clear that a source needs to make it possible "to write more than a very brief, incomplete stub about the organization." The 2020 census is literally a stub. ]

Strong delete. All the coverage is incredibly trivial and short. I'm not even sure every source being cited in that article is reliable. Note an enormous number of sources were deleted by me for them being not independent or not reliable see the page history, so you don't bring up any of those sources if you find them on google. This article is a clear

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oppose: UMD is probably the best known and one of the most influential macedonian diaspora organizations. It definitely deserves a wiki article. Тутуноберач (talk) 16:08, 17 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. I was attacked personally by this organisation and still suppose its set of socks is voting around. In late April 2020 an online webinar was promoted by its President Meto Koloski: On April 29th, we will host “Wikipedia Warriors: The New Front-lines in the Battle for Macedonia.” Instructions were provided on the how to change the information here. Jingiby (talk) 16:11, 17 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

While supporting deletion, you've actually added sources to the article which establish notability. These sources portray the organization in a negative light but nonetheless you must therefore find the subject notable since you've found sources? --Local hero talk 16:23, 17 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Reply: No, he hasn't. That source only gives the UMD an incredibly brief mention, it speaks about the UMD for one sentence. That doesn't make the subject notable. It doesn't give it in-depth coverage. ]

Strong Oppose : There are quite a bit of online sources both on Google and on Google News about this organization. It is a legitimate organization from what I can gather. News outlets Newsweek, SBS, National Post, Radio Free Europe, Voice of America, Total Croatia News would not be reporting the organization's statements and views if the organization was not an authority. While Google is a great search engine, it is not the only resource. I encourage editors to use all sources available, including academic, media, governmental, non-governmental. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Macedonia1913 (talkcontribs) 16:18, 17 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Reply: there needs to be significant coverage from reliable sources. No one has been able to point to any. ]
Reply: In your opinion what is significant coverage, and what are reliable sources? The article cites several reliable sources. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Macedonia1913 (talkcontribs) 17:11, 17 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Reply: There's needs to be significant coverage FROM reliable sources. Having reliable sources is insufficient if they do not give significant coverage. An example of significant coverage would be if a book were to be written about the UMD. Note that this is very different to a book merely mentioning the UMD in one or two sentences. Now look, before today you had only ever made 7 edits to Wikipedia. So I would strongly encourage you to gain more experience before being so certain of your opinions. This space shouldn't be used to give general lessons on how to edit Wikipedia. ]

It seems very suspicious to me that UMD's and only UMD's article is for deletion when for example National Italian American Foundation Page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Italian_American_Foundation with no sources whatsoever isn't threatened with deletion. Wikipedia indeed has a Macedonian problem and it needs to be aknowledged by neutral editors too. Тутуноберач (talk) 16:36, 17 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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I had missed the original deletion discussion. This was my first time creating a previously deleted article, so I reached out to the deleting admin first regarding appropriate action. He stated I could either raise it at WP:DRV or simply rewrite it. I chose the latter expecting other editors to see good enough support in reliable sources. I'd rather we argue for/against deletion based on whether this article is notable enough to exist, but if needed I can give it more time and raise it at WP:DRV. In hindsight now, I wish I had gone that route. --Local hero talk 16:54, 17 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
No problem, I acknowledge that you were not aware of the previous discussion and had not participated in it. Place Clichy (talk) 17:01, 17 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Very important comment: Closing admin has to note that much of the support for keeping the page is not based on any policy. Please keep in mind that members of this exact organization have explicitly campaigned for people to sign up to Wikipedia to fight for an agenda (yes, that seriously happened lol). The decision to keep/delete this page can't be decided by a popularity contest, it has to be decided on policy. It's certainly a very unusual statistical coincidence that a bunch of very new Wikipedia editors all managed to stumble upon this AFD within mere hours of it being nominated for deletion...I've never seen anything like this on an AFD before. WOW! I didn't know that nominating this article for deletion would be such a great recruiting drive for Wikipedia.

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Slanders against editors User Apples&Manzanas claims that "much of the support for keeping the page is not based on any policy. Please keep in mind that members of this exact organization have explicitly campaigned for people to sign up to Wikipedia to fight for an agenda" . There is no proof whatsoever that the support this page gets is in any way connected to some unkown campaign made by the organization. Тутуноберач (talk) 16:49, 17 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Reply: I never said there was. You missed a few sentences in the middle there. But certainly, based on my experience as an editor, I think it's an unusual coincidence that (A) A member of this organization has led a campaign to recruit people to fight for a POV on Wikipedia. (B) This exact organization's wikipedia page gets nominated for deletion. (C) A bunch of Wikipedia editors, with extremely few edits, and edit histories which all largely relate to Macedonian nationalism come to defend this organization within hours of it being nominated for deletion. This is of course, an unusual coincidence. I'm not casting specific doubts on any individual, only talking about statistical likelihoods in the aggregate. ]
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"significant coverage" is not objectively defined. It has to be considered in context. If independent sources cover the views of an organisation like this that is enough. Very few organisations generate detailed lengthy examination. Rathfelder (talk) 09:11, 18 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Reply: There hasn't been a single reliable secondary source which has written about this organization as its subject. No book has written been written about this organization, no journal article article has been written about this organization, no newspaper article has been written about this organization. A one sentence mention in a journal article does not count as "in-depth" and "significant" and "direct" and "detailed"...as per the aforementioned policies. Moreover, this is an organization which has a member requesting other members to push a POV on wikipedia and another member is even talking about how this exact article got deleted and "now [they] have to start from scratch". You should be much more skeptical towards this material per ]
@Rathfelder: does have a good point, per WP:GNG the subject "does not need to be the main topic of the source material". We need reliable sources such "that no original research is needed to extract the content." That's been achieved here. This subject seems to be facing relatively high scrutiny, we definitely don't require all 6 mil+ of Wikipedia's articles to have previously had a full book written about their topics. --Local hero talk 13:58, 18 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Reply: No, this is wrong. The relevant policy clearly states that "Quantity does not determine significance. It is the quality of the content that governs. A collection of multiple trivial sources do not become significant." Per ]
It's not that time yet. Out of two uninvolved users to voice their opinions here, one is in favour of keeping and the other is suggesting a procedural delete. Let's wait on it. I know this has become your crusade, but it's just time to admit that boldfacing every other sentence defeats the purpose of boldfacing... --Local hero talk 20:09, 18 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Reply - you are missing the point. It doesn't matter if there are "sufficient independent citations". This is entirely irrelevant. There could be a million independent citations, it still fails ]
  • Here are additional quotes from the relevant policies which show why this article does not have significant coverage:
  1. "These criteria, generally, follow the general notability guideline with a stronger emphasis on quality of the sources to prevent gaming of the rules by marketing and public relations professionals. The guideline, among other things, is meant to address some of the common issues with abusing Wikipedia for advertising and promotion. As such, the guideline establishes generally higher requirements for sources that are used to establish notability than for sources that are allowed as acceptable references within an article."
    WP:ORGCRITE
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  2. "Deep or significant coverage provides an overview, description, commentary, survey, study, discussion, analysis, or evaluation of the product, company, or organization. Such coverage provides an organization with a level of attention that extends well beyond brief mentions and routine announcements, and makes it possible to write more than a very brief, incomplete stub about the organization."
    WP:ORGDEPTH
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  3. "Quantity does not determine significance. It is the quality of the content that governs. A collection of multiple trivial sources do not become significant." ]
No uninvolved users to opine here share that view yet. But anyway, I'm just here to point out the mis-characterization that "all" of the sources contain "about one sentence" of coverage. The US Census Bureau source and The European Diaspora in Australia for starters. Pretty sure the rest are more than a sentence too. --Local hero talk 15:35, 19 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
What do you mean "no uninvolved users...share that view". Myself, Jingiby, StanProg, James Richards, Placy Clichy have all voted to delete. Are you defining anyone who disagrees with you as 'involved' and anyone who agrees with you as 'uninvolved'? I did much to improve your article, deleting countless terrible sources. I'm the only reason the article looks superficially good at the moment. It doesn't matter how many people support your edits, the policy is very clear that the article should be deleted. Your reasoning for why the article should be kept has changed about 4 times, after each time you were proven to be wrong. And none of those 'uninvolved editors' have actually made a policy argument for why the article should be kept: none have pointed to significant and in-depth coverage in at least two sources. ]
Meaning ones that aren't involved in editing the article and don't have predictable opinions on these issues (i.e. Macedonian and Bulgarian editors). So that leaves Place Clichy who voted to deleted technically, but not based on notability. Then there's SilentResident and Rathfelder, neither of which support the view of a lack of notability. That's what we've got so far. Your policy arguments are based on your interpretations of them and you've made it clear in every single reply to every comment. Let's await more neutral opinions. My reasoning hasn't changed at all actually, I think the organization is notable enough to have an article. If any uninvolved editors come along disagreeing with that, then so be it, we'll delete the thing. --Local hero talk
I'm not Bulgarian or Macedonian just by the way...Also, you forgot that it was James Richards - an uninvolved editor - who nominated the article for deletion per a lack of notability in the first place...Also, SilentResident never said the article DID have significant coverage, perhaps you should wait for her to reply before trying to assign her to one side or the other. Rathfelder never made any argument about any source giving significant coverage either, Rathfelder made irrelevant arguments about the quantity of sources and then said there was no way of defining significant coverage. If significant coverage didn't matter the relevant policies wouldn't mention the need for it over and over again. I also remind you of ]
Right if I'm taking your word for it, but you edited this article heavily and seem to consistently take position opposed to the Macedonian side on other articles. Whatever, call yourself uninvolved if you like, we still hardly have a consensus to delete here. James Richards is clearly a Bulgarian editor... and he doesn't even seem to know how to form an interwiki link. And I never said SilentResident stated the article was notable enough lol, I just stated that the user has not agreed with your stance which you claim is so "clear". Rathfelder left his opinions and went on with his day rather do this back and forth like I am, clearly a much smarter person than I. --Local hero talk 16:54, 19 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I agree to stop talking for the moment, for the benefit of the closing admin. ]
I did not say there was no way of defining significant coverage. I said there is no objective measure. It depends on context. If you can produce an objective measure lets have it. But it appears to me that those who want to delete are applying inappropriate standards which would not be met by any articles about similar organizations. Rathfelder (talk) 22:06, 19 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I've produced objective measures countless times in this article...Here is one of many such examples. For a SINGLE source to be considered significant for the purpose of notability it needs to make "it possible to write more than a very brief, incomplete stub about the organization" per ]
Well, I have no idea of the exact percentage...But yes I would support deletion of hospital and university articles if they fail to meet the requirements of the ]

Very important comment, from the opposing side To the closing admin, the reason the article has been brought up for deletion is not why they claim they have. These editors always find technicalities on Wikipedia to manipulate and push their Point of View on Macedonian issues. Firstly, they deleted the UMD article on the basis that it was self-promotion, now they claim that UMD is not a credible organization with a lot of coverage. UMD is a credible Macedonian organization, which engages in diplomacy and advocacy for Macedonian issues. The editors don't like the nature of the organization, since their agenda on Wikipedia is to discredit anything Macedonian. In all articles regarding Macedonia, you will see the same editors editing constantly and pushing their point of view due to technicalities, despite the number of scholars who disagree with the agenda that they are pushing on Wikipedia. For more information, someone has brought this up on other sites: [1] [2] [3] Dikaiosyni (talk) 02:17, 23 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Response: I will remind you that "No company or organization is considered inherently notable. No organization is exempt from this requirement, no matter what kind of organization it is": see ]
Comment: It is interesting to see that “Wikipedia Warriors who open the New Front-lines in the Battle for Macedonia” are accusing me of discrediting all articles regarding that area. Jingiby (talk) 04:11, 23 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment: Please rather than slandering other fellow Wikipedians, and falsely accusing me of being Bulgarian just for nominating this article for deletion. It is better to provide give valid reasons and evidence why this organisation is notable. Also it is important to point out that it is interesting that the page for United Macedonian Diaspora was re-created after already being deleted within a few days of the same organisation creating their very own 'Wikipedia taskforce'.

https://ibb.co/VgYTJ0v https://ibb.co/3h4w0bz

The bios of some of new users involved in this discussion also offers an interesting insight about their aims on Wikipedia especially when you take into account that United Macedonian Diaspora has been calling for meatpuppets outside of Wikipedia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxS5tZc-yf4 &

https://ibb.co/XLqZLKL https://ibb.co/yWGxYjG

--James Richards (talk) 15:53, 24 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete and salt: Most of the refs here only talk about the general category of diaspora, not the organization itself. The only refs that even feature at least 1 lengthy paragraph tell very similar things (there is much overlap) plus one (the census) is specifically talking about orgs that support it (not independent). Given what the orginization is doing on WP right now, I'd recommend salting. Username6892 15:18, 25 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, King of ♥ 05:03, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Additionally to the speedy deletion per
WP:NORG & WP:GNG, which was the reason for the previous deletion. There's no significant coverage, almost all of the sources vaguely mention the subject or are not notable, and the only wider coverage is in a "Partner Spotlight" in which the actual informative paragraph (which is added into the article) is organization-provided. This source as well fails the "Independent of the subject" principle from GNG. --StanProg (talk) 10:14, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply
]

Delete Most of the above discussion is just politics, but the fact is there simply there isn't any significant coverage in independent, reliable source except for the book, which is not enough. If others find new sources, I would be glad to change my vote. Neutral This is a borderline case, but there have been many reliable sources that have been introduced, from the book to other papers, that have pushed me towards being neutral. If I were closing this, which I am certainly not, in my opinion there is no consensus either way. Zoozaz1 (talk) 03:52, 28 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete I decided to not vote immediatelly and rather look for

WP:RS but there isn't really enough. No significant coverage by WP:RS means the article doesn't fullfill even the basic criteria. I wish we kept it like we do with most Diaspora organizations, but this simply isn't enough by itself. --- SilentResident (talk ✉ | contribs ✎) 08:20, 28 June 2020 (UTC)[reply
]

Strong Oppose Comment: I have noticed this page has been deleted once already and is now pending 2nd nomination for deletion. I decided to dig further for sources showing this is a legitimate organization. I made changes to the article and cited numerous books, journals, and reports, including a report by the World Bank, and books/journal publications available on Academia.edu and ProQuest. There seem to be a lot of sources in Greek language books and journals, for which I used Google translate to assist in providing as accurate a translation as possible. This organization is not lacking in reliable sources by any means. All the reliable sources I cited in the article were found in easy Google searches using "United Macedonian Diaspora" academia.edu in the search engine. There are more, which can help confirm their legitimacy.Macedonia1913 (talk) 01:55, 2 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Could you put the sources that you found and the specific page numbers in the discussion so we can look at them individually? Zoozaz1 (talk) 02:16, 2 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Collapsed away to make this easier to read
  • Zoozaz1 - sure. Here they are - when searching in the sources use "UMD" and "United Macedonian Diaspora" interchangeably:

Page 68-69, 71, 76, 79-80 of https://www.academia.edu/43493347/The_Macedonian_Diaspora_Key_to_the_Development_of_the_Republic_of_Macedonia

Page 2, 4 of https://www.academia.edu/2902205/Why_Macedonia_Matters

Page 19, 32, 44, 49, 69-71 of https://search.proquest.com/openview/8d4eab3b532c71d5ca740e076549261d/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y

Page 8 and 13 of http://www.e-diasporas.fr/working-papers/Balalovska-Macedonian-EN.pdf

Page 2, 57-58 of https://www.auca.kg/uploads/Migration_Database/Heleniak%20-%20DiasporaPaper10112011.pdf

Page 441 and 442 of https://repository.library.northeastern.edu/files/neu:379149/fulltext.pdf

Article: https://dailyutahchronicle.com/2009/11/09/macedonian-conference-reignites-feud/?print=true

Page 182-185, 187-188, 192, 195-196 of https://www.academia.edu/35684272/Templar_M._2014_Είκοσι_Χρόνια_Μετά_την_Ανεξαρτησία_-_Ενέργειες_της_κυβέρνησης_των_πολιτών_και_της_διασποράς_της_FYROM_για_κατοχύρωση_του_ονόματος_της_Μακεδονίας_ Macedonia1913 (talk) 02:33, 2 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for presenting all these sources @Macedonia1913:. That Greek book source seems to cover the UMD in detail, as does the Macedonian Diaspora book. The FMSH source talks about the UMD multiple times. --Local hero talk 05:34, 2 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not convinced at all. The sources above do not cover the "Significant coverage" guideline. They just trivially mention the orginazation. I don't speak Greek, but in the proveided Greek source "Ενωμένη Μακεδονική ∆ιασπορά" (including ΕΜ∆) is mentioned just once in the context that they have paid for a study. Local hero, I assume you understand Greek, can you show us an excert of that detailed covering of UMD by the Greek book source that you're mentioning above? --StanProg (talk) 11:19, 2 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Those sources are definitely and absolutely bad:

  • The first source by Zlatko Nikolovski is NOT INDEPENDENT. Its author is described by the UMD as being a "UMD Vienna Representative": SEE LINK. It is also NOT A RELIABLE SOURCE because it was self-published (see page two of the document). This has now made me suspicious of every other source. They all appear to be bad without even needing to look very hard.
  • The second source only offers a series of trivial mentions as per usual. It also does not look like a reliable source. It's a paper for a Greek lobby group, not an academic journal. I don't think we use those on Wikipedia.
  • The third source is a thesis. As we discussed earlier,
    WP:SCHOLARSHIP
    : "Masters dissertations and theses are considered reliable only if they can be shown to have had significant scholarly influence."
  • The fourth source is not a reliable source. Its author is described as a PHD candidate. It has not been published for any credible journal. This is a non-scholarly journal: Link to website. Moreover, it only offers trivial mentions as per usual, and does not offer in-depth coverage.
  • The fifth source contains an absolutely tiny trivial mention. Moreover, it is a discussion paper which is not even published by the World Bank. Self-Published, trivial, and unreliable.
  • The sixth source is another unreliable source per it being a dissertation.
    WP:SCHOLARSHIP
    : "Masters dissertations and theses are considered reliable only if they can be shown to have had significant scholarly influence." It probably also only offers trivial coverage, but I can't even be bothered reading it fully, it doesn't matter.
  • The seventh source is not a reliable source and only offers incredibly trivial coverage.
  • The eight source is in Greek. None of you, nor I, speak Greek. The person posting this source has admitted to not speaking Greek. See ]

Response to StanProg:

  • The Greek source actually spells out "United Macedonian Diaspora" and "UMD" over 20 times in the Journal. The Journal also cites website links and a 3-page bibliography. I took ancient Greek in college so have a basic understanding, however, would have never found the source on Google had the source not had "United Macedonian Diaspora" in English within the Journal. Here are some excerpts:

UMD, όπως αναγράφεται στην περιγραφή της αποστολής της στην ιστοσε- λίδα της (http://umdiaspora.org/content/view/31/67/, πρόσβαση στις 23/7/2011), α- ποτελεί μια «διεθνή, μη κυβερνητική οργάνωση για τα συμφέροντα και τις ανά- γκες των Μακεδόνων και των μακεδονικών κοινοτήτων σε όλο τον κόσμο εκτός"

"στον Μπίτοφ έχει απονεμηθεί το Βραβείο Επιτευγμάτων Μιας Ζωής από την ορ- γάνωση Ενωμένη Μακεδονική Διασπορά (United Macedonian Diaspora – UMD). Ιδιαίτερης προσοχής χρήζει η δήλωση που έκανε κατά την παραλαβή του βραβείου"

"Στις ΗΠΑ τα άρθρα ή οι επιστολές που δημοσιεύονται στον ιστοχώρο της UMD δημοσιεύονται στη συνέχεια από το Κέντρο Πληροφοριών Ανοικτής Πηγής (Open Source Center – OSC) του διευθυντή Εθνικών Πληροφοριών των ΗΠΑ και διασπεί- ρονται σε όλα τα υπουργεία των ΗΠΑ, καθώς και στις δεκαεπτά υπηρεσίες και ορ- γανισμούς πληροφοριών των ΗΠΑ, χωρίς τις αντίθετες (ελληνικές) απόψεις." Macedonia1913 (talk) 14:53, 2 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Response to

Apples&Manzanas

  • The book by Zlatko Nikoloski in Skopje, Macedonia, not to be confused with a Zlatko Nikolovski in Vienna, Austria, fully meets the requirements of
    Reliable source
  • Regarding 2nd source: Regardless of trivial mention or not, it is a journal published on Academia.edu from a reputable source called the American Hellenic Institute, created in 1974, according to their Wikipedia article.
  • Regarding 3rd source: This is a misinterpretation of what a
    WP:SCHOLARSHIP
    , it states "Completed dissertations or theses are written as part of the requirements for a doctorate, and which are publicly available (most via interlibrary loan or from Proquest), can be used but care should be exercised, as they are often, in part, primary sources." The dissertation author undergoes interviews with an entire community in Los Angeles County, however, cites reputable sources for her research.
  • Regarding 4th source: From what I can see on that about the link you posted above. E-diasporas.fr is a French publicly funded project by Agence nationale de la recherche, which has a Wikipedia article. They should scientific data to map out Diasporas.
  • Regarding 6th source: Your interpretation of
    WP:SCHOLARSHIP
    is incorrect.
  • Regarding 7th source: According to
    reliable source
    is the Daily Utah Chronicle, a reputable publication in the state of Utah, which interviews several individuals to produce new content, and not content taken from a news agency like Reuters, Associated Press, which usually only primarily send over news via the wire.
  • Regarding 8th source: See comment above in response to
    reliable sources
    so long as there are English translations.
I'm inclined to agree that some of the sources do help with notability in this case. The first source I would say contributes to notability. The second source is really just trivial mentions, however; see
WP:SIGCOV. The third source may contribute slightly, but it is still a relatively small mention. The fourth and fifth sources are just trivial mentions of UMD. The sixth source, as per WP:SCHOLARSHIP "Completed dissertations or theses written as part of the requirements for a doctorate, and which are publicly available (most via interlibrary loan or from Proquest), can be used but care should be exercised, as they are often, in part, primary sources." does contribute to notability a bit. The seventh source provides only trivial coverage, and since I can't read Greek I don't know if the 8th source contributes to notability. Overall, I'm not sure if this contributes to notability in full. More experienced editors can probably judge more accurately on this. Zoozaz1 (talk) 15:30, 2 July 2020 (UTC)[reply
]
@Rathfelder:I'd like your opinion on my new sources for the article. What do you think? Macedonia1913 (talk) 21:58, 2 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Reply to:]
Of course, the policies you cited are correct. Each individual source must provide in depth coverage. Along with that, the existance of multiple ones need to be demonstrated (that is what I mean when I say add up; does this demonstrate multiple sources contribute to notability?) That is exactly what I evaluated when I said some sources provided trivial coverage, some sources were borderline (eg. contributed slightly) and some sources did provide in depth coverage. In other words, what you say I should do is exactly what I did. Zoozaz1 (talk) 17:39, 2 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Yep got it, thanks for your reply. Regarding the sources you think may provide in-depth coverage, see my comment below, they may or may not do this. But I argue that they are not reliable sources in any event, so whether they do provide in-depth coverage is irrelevant as they fail to meet different criteria. ]


The sources together provide reliability as well as notoriety. I just discovered a Newsweek article quoting UMD in three paragraphs: https://www.newsweek.com/greece-alexander-great-history-dispute-europe-macedonia-891857 - is this not a ]
Just because someone is being quoted doesn't mean it is
significant coverage. Simply mentioning that someone that you quoted is the head of an organization doesn't make the organization notable. That is exactly what that article does. Username6892 19:59, 2 July 2020 (UTC)[reply
]
If you click on the article itself, it mentions their president. Thus, if they are quoted for a media outlet, they represent their organization. Nowhere did I mention that this constitutes significant coverage. Macedonia1913 (talk) 20:51, 2 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Regarding the point about reliable sources,
WP:SCHOLARSHIP states that "Completed dissertations or theses written as part of the requirements for a doctorate, and which are publicly available (most via interlibrary loan or from Proquest), can be used (as reliable sources) but care should be exercised, as they are often, in part, primary sources." So essentially they are not optimal, but I don't see policy that says they aren't reliable. Zoozaz1 (talk) 20:15, 2 July 2020 (UTC)[reply
]
]
This AfD is eligible for closure at 05:03 on July 3rd. Username6892 20:55, 2 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Apples&Manzanas' Reply to Macedonia1913:
  • Regarding the 1st source. It seems you are therefore correct to say it is independent. However, it is still not a reliable source. (A) It is self-published (as shown as page 2 of the document.) (B) It is a dissertation and clearly described as such on the link you provided. (C) Per
    WP:ORGIND
    "Once notability is established, primary sources and self-published sources may be used with appropriate care to verify some of the article's content." It is only ONCE NOTABILITY IS ESTABLISHED that those kinds of sources may in very limited circumstances be used. Those sources do not establish notability in the first place. (E) The ORGIND policy also makes it clear that "Reliable sources, generally, are third-party published sources with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy. The best sources have a professional structure in place for checking or analyzing facts, legal issues, evidence, and arguments." Sorry, it's self-published and a dissertation. I'm not wasting any more time on this source -- you are simply just wrong -- and need to learn how Wikipedia works before accusing me maliciously misinterpreting policy. You have only made about 20 edits to Wikipedia so perhaps you should be a little bit more humble before declaring everyone wrong about everything. (WOW, another new Wikipedia editor came to this AFD, what a pure coincidence!).
  • I addressed your second dot point above.
  • The American Hellenic Group is a lobby group, it is not an academic journal which provides peer reviewed scholarly coverage. It is not a reliable source. The burden is always on you to prove it is a reliable source. Moreover, you said "Regardless of trivial mention or not"...What do you mean "regardless"...If it's a trivial mention, then it's entirely irrelevant to this notability debate. Okay great, we agree this source is now useless and should be ignored.
  • I addressed this in my 1st point. You cherry-picked 1 sentence while ignoring every other sentence which shows it isn't a reliable source, especially not for the purposes of establishing notability.
  • None of that proves that "e-diasporas" is a reliable source, at all. That just isn't a reliable source and it's by a "PHD candidate" too. The coverage appears to be trivial anyway. I'm not wasting my time on this source again.
  • How can I prove it was self-published? Maybe I was wrong, my apologies, it did say: "The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors, and do not reflect the view of the World Bank Group." I may have misinterpreted that. I'm still not sure it counts as a reliable source because it's only a working paper for a peer-assisted learning discussion series. In any case, none of this matters because it's an absolutely and extremely trivial mention. I've gone through this before, trivial mentions do not make an organization notable. Reliable or not - that source does nothing to establish notability under the ORG policy. Let's not waste time discussing sources which so clearly fall short of
    WP:ORGDEPTH
    .
  • My interpretation of
    WP:ORG
    policy.
  • Tiny local newspapers like the Utah Chronicle, which doesn't even have a Wikipedia page, are not considered reliable sources. Only "well-established" newspapers are considered reliable sources per
    WP:RSP
    ). Tiny local newspapers no one knows are definitely not RS or "well-established". In any case, the coverage was trivial, so this source is irrelevant in any event.
  • Regarding the Greek source, yes this is a reliable source, I don't question that. The question is whether it provides in-depth coverage. You can't even read the source you have no way of knowing whether it does. The quotes you gave don't demonstrate significant and in-depth coverage at all. The Greek source certainly has not made the UMD the subject of the source, and from what you've shown, it certainly doesn't provide an in-depth overview of the organization as required by the
    WP:ORGCRITE
    . A high bar is required to prove notability, not little scraps of mentions here and there. It's evident that no source has ever made this organization the subject of coverage.
  • I find it funny to be accused of having deliberately misinterpreted Wikipedia policy in a vendetta against this organization. I'm sure all these editors voting to keep with under 50 edits are the absolute masters of Wikipedia policy, and me who has made more edits than all them put together knows absolutely nothing about Wikipedia's policies. ]

In response to

Apples&Manzanas
:

I took at a read at
Apples&Manzanas
, and it states the following: Independence of the author (or functional independence): the author must be unrelated to the company, organization, or product. Related persons include organization's personnel, owners, investors, (sub)contractors, vendors, distributors, suppliers, other business partners and associates, customers, competitors, sponsors and sponsorees (including astroturfing), and other parties that have something, financially or otherwise, to gain or lose. A
  • All of the reliable sources I used are independent authors with no affiliation to the organization. I researched and could not find any affiliation of the authors to the organization, thus their work meets the independence requirement.
  • In conducting further research I discovered the organization's leadership has been interviewed by numerous publications and TV stations (all simple Google searches), example:

https://www.newsweek.com/greece-alexander-great-history-dispute-europe-macedonia-891857 Macedonia1913 (talk) 20:42, 2 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Quoting someone is not significant coverage. Username6892 20:17, 2 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for the clarification. I did not state the link was significant coverage. The media articles, together, with all the books/journals/mentions/trivial (or not) mentions, all
reliable sources should constitute that the organization is a legitimate organization. Macedonia1913 (talk) 20:33, 2 July 2020 (UTC)[reply
]
Notability on Wikipedia doesn't equal legitimacy. UMD is a legitimate organization which probably does represent some of their target group, but that doesn't mean it's notable. Username6892 20:44, 2 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

https://www.trtworld.com/video/the-newsmakers/will-macedonians-vote-to-change-the-name-of-their-country/5bae3f7e58cd863d6877048f

Quoting the org's president isn't significant coverage
Not a reliable source either per: ]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70Vj-QqZ8bs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHthAvpwqiI

These 2 videos both document the organization's president's stance on the change of the country's name. Someone's opinion is not significant coverage of an organization that they lead. Username6892 20:50, 2 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

https://www.balkaninsider.com/balkan-insider-exclusive-interview-with-united-macedonian-diaspora-president-metodija-koloski-on-umd-and-name-agreement/

I'm not sure what the policy on interviews like this is. Perhaps another editor can see for themself? Username6892 20:55, 2 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Reply to ]
The number of twitter followers an organization has does not determine if a source is reliable. This essay seems to be useful in determining if it contributes to notability. Zoozaz1 (talk) 15:36, 3 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I understand that, my point is that it's a random small website not a ]

https://www.freedomhouse.org/sites/default/files/NIT2012Macedonia_final.pdf

Quoting the organization isn't significant coverage

https://harriman.columbia.edu/event/western-balkans-macedonia-and-integrative-process-what-role-diaspora

Even if this was significant coverage of the organization's president,
notability is not inherited
.

https://www.rferl.org/a/north-macedonia-honeyland-oscars-disappointment-country-proud/30426116.html

Quoting the president isn't significant coverage

https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/macedonia-quiet-crossroads

3 lines isn't significant coverage

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/greece-accused-of-genocide-of-macedonian-people/1081780

The joint statement isn't significant coverage (quoting someone)

https://www.voanews.com/europe/macedonian-president-veto-name-deal-greece

I believe we are trying to establish that there are enough
WP:MULTSOURCES, which states For notability purposes, sources must be unrelated to each other to be "multiple". All of the sources are unrelated and are beyond multiple. Macedonia1913 (talk) 20:33, 2 July 2020 (UTC)[reply
]
Independent sources states "A primary test of notability is whether unrelated people with no vested interest in the subject have actually considered the company, corporation, product or service notable enough that they have written and published non-trivial, non-routine works that focus upon it." All the sources are by unrelated people. Macedonia1913 (talk) 20:33, 2 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
]
Oh my god. We have already acknowledged that this organization has been mentioned by multiple independent reliable sources. However this is irrelevant. The organization needs to be given ]
significant coverage lists several examples of significant/substantial coverage. It states on Wikipedia that "Examples of substantial coverage that would generally be sufficient to meet the requirement: A scholarly article, a book passage, or ongoing media coverage focusing on a product or organization." We've established that the organization has had two book passages and two scholarly articles, as well as ongoing media coverage as evident by Voice of America and Radio Free Europe. Macedonia1913 (talk) 21:38, 2 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
It also says "Deep or significant coverage provides an overview, description, commentary, survey, study, discussion, analysis, or evaluation of the product, company, or organization. Such coverage provides an organization with a level of attention that extends well beyond brief mentions and routine announcements, and makes it possible to write more than a very brief, incomplete stub about the organization." This article and this article do not come close to meeting that requirement, you simply don't understand how Wikipedia works. The UMD isn't even the main focus of those news articles, at all... ]

Brief response by Apples&Manzanas to Macedonia1913: Sigh. Most of those sources were already known about, they are either unreliable or do not provide significant coverage:

  1. I can only assume you haven't read anything I've said. Those sources you provided previously -- most of them -- are not reliable sources for reasons which have nothing to do with them being independent or not. Yes, they are independent, but they are not reliable sources. You clearly have little idea of how Wikipedia policy works and have not read what I wrote. Sources can be unreliable sources for reasons which have nothing to do with whether they are independent or not.
  2. Newsweek post-2013 is not a reliable source. "There is clear consensus that Newsweek is not generally reliable post–2013."Per: Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard/Archive_280#Newsweek_RfC. The coverage is extremely trivial anyway. This source was already known about and deleted from the article.
  3. Youtube isn't a reliable source, especially if not coming from an official verified account.
    WP:INHERITORG
    . Those interviews were not about the organization and they are trash sources anyway.
  4. The Balkaninsider source is not a reliable source. It is a random website with a tiny 1000 twitter followers, it is not a credible or mainstream source in any way. This source was already known about and deleted from the article.
  5. AA is not a reliable source for international relations per
    WP:RSP
    : "In the 2019 RfC, editors generally agreed that Anadolu Agency is generally unreliable for topics that are controversial or related to international politics." Only gives extremely trivial coverage anyway. This source was already known about and deleted from the article.
  6. Freedom House probably isn't a reliable source. It only provides one sentence of coverage as far as I can be bothered seeing. A collection of trivial sources do not make something notable.
  7. Everyone already knew about sources like VOA and Radio Free Liberty. They may or may not be reliable sources, but they do not provide significant coverage...at all.
  8. The other sources you've mentioned which I haven't seen before are unreliable sources and/or they don't provide significant coverage. I can't spend hours of my time responding to every single trivial and unreliable source you manage to dig up. Stop posting so many sources, quantity does not matter, quality does. If you think you've found three good and in-depth sources then please show them or let me know what I've missed. You don't have any excuse to continue to flood this AFD with trivial sources. This is just a waste of space/time. If you can point out 3 in-depth sources, then do it, but I've made it very clear what Wikipedia's policies are. ]

My apologies,

Apples&Manzanas
keeps raising the bar for this organization, and it further proves my point that he has a personal vendetta against the organization.

  1. The bar has been raised to 3 in-depth sources, yet
    WP:ORGDEPTH
    makes no mention of how many in-depth sources are needed to establish notability.
  2. VOA and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty are reliable sources, and clearly the article uses them as sources. If they were not reliable, why does the article use them in the citations?
  3. The European Diaspora in Australia is a reliable source.
  4. The Macedonian Diaspora: Key to the Development of the Republic of Macedonia is a reliable source.
  5. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HOMELAND AND DIASPORA: THE CASE OF GREECE AND THE GREEK-AMERICAN COMMUNITY is a reliable source.
  6. The Greek language journal has been translated into English and is a reliable source.
  7. 4 book/journal reliable sources. The media is a whole different story, and rather not get into that. It is open to interpretation. The books and journal writings elaborating on the organization's activities are enough reliable sources. World Bank, Freedom House, Congress, Census even making one mention of the organization confirms they exist. Their coverage of the organization seems to be related to diaspora studies and how that relates to the homeland of certain diaspora. If the organization, which is named "United Macedonian Diaspora," is being written about in academic journals and books, it has a broad reach. We've established this is the case. You, on the other hand, want to continue debating and prolonging the discussion.
  8. I definitely have an excuse to respond to your misunderstandings and misinterpretations of Wikipedia guides and rules. As I have mentioned before, it is up to the Admins to decide. Macedonia1913 (talk) 21:32, 2 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Brief reply - you clearly haven't read what I've written.
  1. I didn't say you had to provide 3 in-depth sources. I was saying that it would be better to discuss 3 sources rather than 300. Are you now admitting you don't have 3 in-depth sources? Great. In general you do need multiple in-depth sources, per
    WP:THREESOURCES
    . You don't have 2 in-depth sources anyway.
  2. Oh my god...I literally never said that VOA and RFE were not reliable sources. They do not, however, provide significant coverage. They are therefore irrelevant to this notability debate. Yes the organization has been mentioned before by some reliable sources...It needs to receive significant coverage from reliable sources.
  3. Yes, it's a reliable source. 1.5 pages of coverage in a 265 page book is arguably not in-depth coverage. That isn't even a passage. I don't think this source passes significance tests, but if it does, then it barely scrapes through. I admit that this has been the best source so far. But I also remind you you need multiple in-depth sources.
  4. I gave you over 5 reasons earlier why that self-published thesis is not a reliable source and does not count towards notability. This is just
    WP:ICANTHEARYOU
    . I'm not going to repeat myself.
  5. I gave you countless reasons why this dissertation was not a reliable source. This is just
    WP:ICANTHEARYOU
    . I'm not going to repeat myself.
  6. This is a reliable source, I literally said that. I disputed whether it provides in-depth coverage. You admitted you couldn't read Greek and had to use google translate, so don't pretend like it does. Your track record of assessing in-depth coverage is terrible, so I'm not going to believe you after you've spammed hundreds of trivial and/or unreliable sources previously. You said you don't speak Greek and the quotes you provided demonstrated very insignificant coverage.
  7. I addressed all those sources. This is
    WP:ICANTHEARYOU
    again. I won't repeat myself.
  8. You've made about 100 edits to Wikipedia, stop pretending like you know everything. I wonder how you came across this AFD? Just pure chance I'm sure. ]

Thank you to

WP:AUD, it states "The source's audience must also be considered. Evidence of significant coverage by international or national, or at least regional, media is a strong indication of notability. On the other hand, attention solely from local media, or media of limited interest and circulation, is not an indication of notability; at least one regional, statewide, provincial, national, or international source is necessary." - With all the media sources provided the organization has definitely received ample coverage in numerous media outlets around the world based on a simple Google search, or a Google news search. Macedonia1913 (talk) 21:43, 2 July 2020 (UTC)[reply
]

"SIGNIFICANT COVERAGE" is the key word there. It doesn't say that insignificant coverage from international media is evidence of notability. ]

So we now all agree that the UMD is found in multiple reliable independent sources. To establish notability, however, we need significant coverage (more than a trivial mention but it need not be the main topic of the source material). We have two book sources that meet that: The European Diaspora in Australia and the Greek book (machine translation can give you a good idea here if you need it, also the book writes UMD in Latin letters). We've got an article (not particularly lengthy) from the US census bureau about the organization. Then, we have sources that are so-so because they're self-published or scholarly thesis sources. Finally, we have other sources that range from a few paragraphs about UMD to a few sentences. We've all encountered articles on Wikipedia with far less than this and I'm still confident a decent article can exist from these references. I'll leave it at that. --Local hero talk 02:29, 3 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Published scholarly sources are usually considered the most reliable of all,
WP:SOURCETYPES. The discussion here is very long though, and I suspect you might be referring to a PhD thesis, in which case I am more inclined to agree that it's "so-so". Cordless Larry (talk) 07:03, 3 July 2020 (UTC)[reply
]
Response to Local Hero:

Adding to Local hero talk and Cordless Larry:

If you visit

WP:EMSC
, you will note the following: Whether something is enough for significant coverage is up to the discretion of the editor(s) involved. The general notability guideline is extremely vague on this matter. The only thing it states in addition to the two examples quoted above are "Significant coverage" addresses the topic directly and in detail, so that no original research is needed to extract the content and Significant coverage is more than a trivial mention, but it does not need to be the main topic of the source material. The arguments laid out above by certain editors are null and void in this case.

Here are the key sources I found on the organization, which prove that there are enough materials on the organization to constitute a Wikipedia article - when searching in the sources use "UMD" and "United Macedonian Diaspora" interchangeably:

Page 68-69, 71, 76, 79-80 of https://www.academia.edu/43493347/The_Macedonian_Diaspora_Key_to_the_Development_of_the_Republic_of_Macedonia

Page 2, 4 of https://www.academia.edu/2902205/Why_Macedonia_Matters

Page 19, 32, 44, 49, 69-71 of https://search.proquest.com/openview/8d4eab3b532c71d5ca740e076549261d/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y

Page 8 and 13 of http://www.e-diasporas.fr/working-papers/Balalovska-Macedonian-EN.pdf

Page 2, 57-58 of https://www.auca.kg/uploads/Migration_Database/Heleniak%20-%20DiasporaPaper10112011.pdf

Page 441 and 442 of https://repository.library.northeastern.edu/files/neu:379149/fulltext.pdf

Article: https://dailyutahchronicle.com/2009/11/09/macedonian-conference-reignites-feud/?print=true

Page 182-185, 187-188, 192, 195-196 of https://www.academia.edu/35684272/Templar_M._2014_Είκοσι_Χρόνια_Μετά_την_Ανεξαρτησία_-_Ενέργειες_της_κυβέρνησης_των_πολιτών_και_της_διασποράς_της_FYROM_για_κατοχύρωση_του_ονόματος_της_Μακεδονίας_ Macedonia1913 (talk) 02:33, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

Macedonia1913 (talk) 11:51, 3 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Response to Macedonia1913:
You should firstly need to know that the ]

In my research, this morning, I discovered the organization featured on the Australian Parliament website:

Chapter 2 of Australia’s diplomatic footprint published by the Parliament of Australia features the United Macedonian Diaspora's efforts to improve Australian diplomacy.

In the chapter "The United Macedonian Diaspora (UMD) suggested that the priorities for locating diplomatic posts were set by the Foreign Minister or DFAT for ‘political, cost-cutting and diplomatic reasons without any meaningful involvement of relevant stakeholders like parliamentarians, the corporate sector, diasporas, and citizen diplomacy organisations’. There was often a mismatch, it suggested, between political and bureaucratic priorities and the priorities of key stakeholders. An example given by the UMD was the poor representation in Africa despite the Australian mining industry’s priorities."

On the topic of honorary consuls "The United Macedonian Diaspora agreed that honorary consuls were ‘used by many countries as a way of reaching out to various societies with minimal investment.’ If they were provided with resources they could initiate ‘high impact projects’, but ‘without funding it is just talk and very little action.’"

"The United Macedonian Diaspora (UMD) provided the following reasons for opening an Australian post in Skopje:

the country was growing economically through developing economic relations with ‘the east’ including the Gulf states;

an embassy would strengthen ties at the government, business, academic, and sporting levels; and

an embassy would serve the ‘unmet needs of tens of thousands of Australians who visit Macedonia, Kosovo and Albania and other parts of Southeast Europe.’"

"The UMD also suggested that: Australia still does not have an embassy in the Republic of Macedonia in order to appease Athens and the Hellenic lobby in Australia rather than advance its own commercial and strategic interests in Southeast Europe."

Source: https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Joint/Completed_Inquiries/jfadt/Overseas%20Representation/report/chapter2

In another report published by the Parliament of Australia Chapter 8 on Diaspora communities, it states:

"The United Macedonian Diaspora notes that ‘diaspora’ now alludes to the global, social, economic, political and environmental networks established by migrant communities to help build the capacity of both their home and host countries."

"Appearing before the Committee, the United Macedonian Diaspora provided specific examples of how diaspora communities open up the Australian market to foreign investment and business opportunities. One example is the settled Italian diaspora in Australia. While acknowledging that Italian businesses are dissuaded by Australia’s distance, DFAT informed the Committee that an increasingly diverse range of Italian businesses are setting up contracts in Australia due to a climate of confidence, trust and familiarity: There have been decisions by some of the larger agricultural Italian companies like Monini, which is a major olive oil producing company, to buy land and produce olive oil in Australia."

Source: https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/House_of_Representatives_Committees?url=/mig/multiculturalism/report/chapter8.pdf

Macedonia1913 (talk) 12:07, 3 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Reply: No, again these are incredibly trivial sources. This and this source are just more trivial sources. Spamming ]
Reply:Again, we are called to debate your misinterpretations of Wikipedia policy. Plenty of sources establish the organization as notable, two books, two journals, two theses, numerous articles, and now two Australian Parliament reports. You keep raising the bar for this organization. Why does this issue matter so much to you? Is it personal? Did they do something to you? The article exists, it's properly cited, and you keep changing and removing properly cited sources. Macedonia1913 (talk) 12:57, 3 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Reply: You have not actually understood any of the relevant policies. And yes, I remove sources that are not reliable sources on Wikipedia. Why does it matter to me? The fact that so much of my time has been taken up by having to argue that 1+1=2 is cause for a little annoyance, but I'm happy to play my part to make sure Wikipedia policy is upheld. I've deleted other organizations before, so it's nothing personal, just other organizations don't seem to have so many invested editors arguing to keep at all costs. We should both stop talking now to make the closing admin's job somewhat easier. I think we've both made our viewpoints clear. ]

Delete. Jingiby (talk) 13:03, 3 July 2020 (UTC) this is a duplicate vote. Username6892 15:45, 3 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose deletion I am not going to mention anything further, everything has been discussed. My final verdict on this is that the organization has notability, thus the Wikipedia page should exist. Dikaiosyni (talk) 13:10, 3 July 2020 (UTC) This is a duplicate vote. Username6892 15:46, 3 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete. Maybe the organisation is
    notable. But after all this discussion, no-one has added references to the article that provide sufficient evidence of notability. The sources by Barkan (currently numbered 6) and Papavizas (7) count for a little, the rest don't help. Two weak sources is not enough. Maproom (talk) 15:22, 3 July 2020 (UTC)[reply
    ]
  • Oppose deletion I really don't understand how some people can spend so much time and effort to argue that something shouldn't exist on Wikipedia when it's probably much easier to improve the article and enrich the encyclopedia. The organisation evidently exists and this is not a clear-cut case for deletion, so it's reasonable and in the spirit of Wikipedia to err on the side of keeping it.--Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 19:00, 3 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment: It's worth noting that both of the above accounts are Ethnic Macedonians as their Wikipedia user pages (current versions) demonstrate. Likely not coming from a standpoint of NPOV, especially since they want to play 'I can't hear you' with the ORG policy. But I thank them both for letting me know this organization "exists", I previously thought it was entirerly imaginary!! ]
    @
    Apples&Manzanas: I think you should definitely calm down, stop with the persistent rules-lawyering throughout the page and refrain from ethnic labelling of other users. Those participating in the discussion know the notability criteria very well or can easily digest them in order to form their opinion. You mentioned canvassing but you're the one who raised 'alarming flag' on a user's talk page; you're arguing against an article that you're heavily editing at the same time. This behaviour is counterproductive and it really doesn't help the discussion at all. We don't have any sort of objectively defined cut-off for what passes notability and it's clear that this is a borderline case as pointed out by some users above. In such cases, we typically err on the side of inclusion conditional to immediate improvements and you're encouraged to help that work but not to undermine it. You've already stated your opinion on this in detail and so be it. Others will either agree or disagree with you but you're not entitled to judge every single opinion that you don't like or disagree with nor your opinion is superior simply because you're the loudest voice in citing rules.--Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 00:44, 4 July 2020 (UTC)[reply
    ]
I spoke to one editor about the fact that this organizations' members have been publicly announcing they will/have been forming wikipedia squads to push a point-of-view on Wikipedia whilst this page was being flooded with new editors with a connection to North Macedonia voting to keep. Whilst basically every editor not related to North Macedonia votes to delete. It's very telling that you are not at all concerned about this organization's attempts to create "Wikipedia Warriors" or all those highly supicious votes, but you are deeply concerned that I alerted one experienced editor about this situation, because I did not know how to handle this kind of unprecedented conduct. Haha yeah, nice logic there. ]
@
Apples&Manzanas: I see that you keep up behaving in the same fashion as before by rules-lawyering, sticking to every non-agreeing user, casting doubt about canvassing/meatpuppetry and echoing that there's ongoing agenda on this page. You've already been warned on several occasions by different users that you've stated your opinion pretty clear and please give others the chance to do the same. We know very well what's going on here, who's who and for what purpose, and we don't need a self-appointed moderator to open our eyes. The administrator who will close this discussion knows that very well and will surely not stumble upon your efforts to mask out users but rather look at the sensible argumentation for the article to be deleted/kept and the progress that this discussion has led to in that context. The only thing that you may get from unnecessarily loading this page with re-iterated comments about rules and user experience of those commenting is be stripped of the chance to participate. I urge you for the last time to think about your participation before reporting your behaviour and requesting closure on the administrators' noticeboard. Thank you.--Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 10:11, 4 July 2020 (UTC)[reply
]
  • @Jamesrichards12345: I saw the videos that you linked to in your introduction and it's fair to assume that members of the organisation deliberately come to defend the article from deletion but this has nothing to do with notability. The organisation has evidently gained enough attention so that the article can be considered a borderline case and it's completely irrelevant if this attention was paid to because of the Macedonian culture they promote in the diaspora, the spread of nationalism and ethnocentrism or the siding with politicians from other countries. The notion of notability here on Wikipedia doesn't depend on the moral sentiments of someone's actions, so it's inappropriate to argue that the article should be deleted because it documents an organisation whose members engage in dishonest activities.--Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 01:47, 4 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I have to agree with @Kiril Simeonovski: here. The ultra-nationalism and the name-calling on both sides is not conducive whatsoever to a reasonable discussion on sourcing or for that matter Wikipedia at all. Half of this discussion is accusations of ulterior motives and most of the other half are unhelpful comments with a vague reference to policy but mainly just POV-pushing. This all distracts from reasonably evaluating the sources. I'm changing my !vote to Neutral based on the sources provided. They are not perfect, but no question this is a significant organization that more importantly has been significantly covered (in total) in multiple reliable sources. Zoozaz1 (talk) 02:07, 4 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • @Kiril Simeonovski: I thought notability mainly depends on the quality of sources provided not how much Bulgarian and Macedonians argue about keeping it, with other nationalities being called Macedonians or Bulgarians based on who they side with. Hopefully the admins can make their decision soon and either keep this article or delete and salt it. Have a nice day. --James Richards (talk) 01:56, 4 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]


  • Comment: The reason why this deletion nomination has taken so long is due to the 'Wikipedia Taskforce' assembled by this organization to make sure that their page doesn't get deleted again. You can find all the evidence about this above. --James Richards (talk) 00:51, 4 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose deletion The United Macedonian Diaspora was described in the United States Congressional Record by U.S. Congressman Bill Pascrell, Jr, Democrat representing the 9th District of New Jersey, as "the only Washington, DC based international organization representing Macedonians and Macedonian communities around the world."[4] The United States Congressional record is a publication of the United States government and indisputably a reliable source. MuzoKral (talk) 22:01, 3 July 2020 (UTC) (This new user is likely associated with the United Macedonian Diaspora's Wikipedia Taskforce. It is best not to allow brand new users to vote due to the activities of this organization.) --James Richards (talk) 22:09, 3 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose deletion The detractors of this article who are advocating for deletion are citing as cause the Wikipedia Guidelines on "Significant coverage." Disingenuously, however, the detractors are not applying the entire guideline to this article. Per wikipedia: "Significant coverage is more than a trivial mention, BUT IT DOES NOT NEED TO BE THE MAIN TOPIC OF THE SOURCE MATERIAL." As evidenced above by many editors opposed to deletion, the United Macedonian Diaspora has been cited in many credible news media outlets and scholarly articles. True, perhaps the UMD wasn't always the "main topic" but Wikipedia guidelines don't require that. MuzoKral (talk) 22:13, 3 July 2020 (UTC)(This new user is likely associated with the United Macedonian Diaspora's Wikipedia Taskforce. It is best not to allow brand new users to vote due to the activities of this organization.Please stop voting after your previous votes have been annuled due to the reasons stated.)--James Richards (talk) 22:17, 3 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment on the above comments by MuzoKral: MuzoKral has only ever made 2 edits to Wikipedia before coming here. This has to be noted. <redacted material>. Regarding this new source, it consists of one sentence of coverage, please learn the difference between a reliable source and a reliable significant source. Also learn the difference between the GNG and the ORG policy. You have only ever made 2 edits to Wikipedia before coming here...Random chance you found this AFD/organization, right? Wow this must be the world's most popular organization considering the number of very new editors voting to keep! ]

Strong Belief and Proof that Organization is Being Targeted, Harassed, and Bullied (See:

WP:BULLY
)

According to the article

WP:BULLY
is the obvious definition of what these editors have been doing towards this organization.

Some examples of other organizational pages with self-publishing sources: Armenian National Committee of America, Armenian Assembly of America, Arab American Institute, American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association, Polish American Congress, Ukrainian American Coordinating Council, Ukrainian Congress Committee of America.

Several of these pages have the following message at the top "This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page." However, none of them are up for deletion. Why weren't the same standards applied to the United Macedonian Diaspora? How are they any different? Macedonia1913 (talk) 01:05, 4 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Like these pages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Italian_American_Foundation and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/American_Turkish_Friendship_Council ? --James Richards (talk) 01:06, 4 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@

]

We have already had this argument already on this thread, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Other_stuff_exists and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions#What_about_article_x.3F. --James Richards (talk) 01:09, 4 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I would also say the difference is simply due to the fact that they are different organizations, with a different amount of sources covering them. This organization is up for deletion simply because of notability, as determined by reliable, independent sources, and apparently those other articles have notability as determined by reliable, independent sources. If they don't I would put those ones up for deletion. This is not about ethnicity; this is about the existence of significant coverage in reliable sources. As a side note, sources from their own website do not contribute to notability but can be used to verify basic facts about an organization. Zoozaz1 (talk) 01:26, 4 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

  • Oppose deletion I always thought that encyclopedias were to document, people, organizations, events and everything that happens, now I see that we have a situation that people will choose what should be documented and what should not be, this reminds me of censorship, bigotry and hatred something that we all as humanity tend to eradicate or am I wrong? For me the Ehrenfest theorem is important for others they will hear this for the first time should we delete it because it is not relevant for 99.99 % of the population? Let this article be and we will see how it will grow and develop in the future. Hope is that this North Korean wish for censorship of this article will end now and the information on English for this reality will be present for readers to read it and decide by their own mind is it credible, relevant or what ever those against it find it not to be.Инокентиј (talk) 01:17, 4 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
^^Another wikipedia editor with under 50 edits who miraculously found this page and is voting to keep. Another amazing coincidence. ]

Dear

]

  1. I personally believe that
    Apples&Manzanas
    should start a discussion on the COI noticeboard if they're seroius enough about this.
  2. Editing before a nomination doesn't equal not being canvassed.
  3. Why hasn't this AfD been closed yet? Username6892 02:41, 4 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
^^This editor had also made approxiately 50 edits when they first voted to keep. Another amazing coincidence, Wikipedia must be advertising this AFD article to all new editors. Not all of those are Wikipedia policies by the way. ]
I want to remind you again, per Wikipedia policy, Wikipedia:Please do not bite the newcomers , Wikipedia:Assume good faith, don't be a Wikipedia:WikiVampire and of course, limit Wikipedia:Tag bombing. Dikaiosyni. Also, as noted from my editing history, you can see that I was editing on Wikipedia before the article nomination. Stop throwing accusations around. This discussion is about notability anyway. Dikaiosyni (talk) 02:36, 4 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
It is a statement of fact that you had only made approximately 50 edits at the point in time when you first voted to keep. If you think that is an "accusation" then you have no understanding of reality. ]
  • Comment Yes, Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and as such, it should convey information on all branches of knowledge. However, "all branches of knowledge" does not necessarily mean "everything". Wikipedia is specifically not an indiscriminate collection of information, which means there are standards for what constitutes information that should be in Wikipedia. Imagine how large an encyclopedia on everything would be: everything would include every idea that has existed or will exist, every person who ever lived, every organization that has existed or exists, every copy of an object that has existed or exists, every website that has existed or exists, etc. The most basic threshold of inclusion is verifiability, not truth. The verifiability requirement alone would prevent writing about every particle and limit the information that could be included on every person. Moreover, the community has decided not to document every verifiable fact and accordingly has established notability guidelines on what articles should be kept, and a due weight policy on what facts are minority views. Even though that guideline is broader than a paper encyclopedia's guidelines, it is also not "everything" and not an indiscriminate collection of anything verifiable. So think carefully and exercise judgement when determining what should be included in an encyclopedia.

see also WP:NOTHING

Also Инокентиј maybe while you are at it with battling censorship, bigotry and hatred maybe look at some of the articles on the Macedonian Wikipedia about Alexander the Great, Tsar Samuil and Gotse Delchev. And maybe make them more 'encyclopedic'. --James Richards (talk) 01:37, 4 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Jamesrichards12345: The articles you mention from the Macedonian Wikipedia are encyclopedic enough in that they document the prevailing views in the Macedonian-language sources. You can find similar preference towards sources in the underlying languages in other Wikipedias. But if you think that sources in other languages would make the content on the Macedonian Wikipedia more 'encyclopedic', then bringing Macedonian-language sources to prove the notability of this article would have to immediately close this discussion with an obvious result 'Keep'.--Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 01:58, 4 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Kiril Simeonovski: The Macedonian Wikipedia is famous for its unique historiogaphy that describes certain famous figures such a Aristotle and Alexander the Great, Cyril and Methodius as Macedonian while all the other Wikipedias have their identity listed as Greek, Byzantian or Hellenic. And not sure what you mean about only using Macedonian language sources when Macedonian Wikipedia and English Wikipedia is full of foreign language sources. --James Richards (talk) 02:10, 4 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

No need for anymore Martin Luther King Jr. speeches please, the reason I nominated this up for deletion was 'Not a notable organization with very little coverage.'. So maybe keep it about the sources rather than going of on a tangent about what Wikipedia should be and how people are trying to censor Macedonians. I have already been called a Bulgarian multiple times. --James Richards (talk) 01:41, 4 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

  • The more excitement this discussion creates the more I think the article should be kept. And I think the voices of people who are Macedonian should count louder than those who arent. Rathfelder (talk) 09:58, 4 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment I noted that it's a much better idea to work on improving the article rather then waste time and effort on undermining notability in my very first comment above and I therefore decided to make a step forward in finding additional reliable sources. Some of them are listed in turn:
  • Ristic, R.; Antoniska, M. & Dumitrescu, L. (2010). Macedonian Diaspora - Macedonian Expatriates, People of Macedonian Descent. LLC Books. ISBN 1157263453. [This is a book about the Macedonian diaspora that does mention the United Macedonian Diaspora as a representative organisation in the United States.] Stricken as per the comment immediately below.
  • Barkan, E. R. (2013). Immigrants in American History: Arrival, Adaptation, and Integration (4 Volume Set).
    ABC-CLIO
    . ISBN 978-1598842197. [This is a comprehensive book about many immigrant groups in the United States throughout history. There are several pages on the Macedonians with explicit information about the United Macedonian Diaspora. I've already added some additional information from this book in the article's 'Overview' section.]
I don't think that the lack of multiple reliable sources is an issue any more as The European Diaspora in Australia: An Interdisciplinary Perspective is no longer the only source presented. I'd like to further encourage those users sharply contesting the notability of this organisation to make a thorough search themselves because it's probable that there are even additional reliable sources that married together with what we have so far will surely improve the article.--Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 12:07, 4 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Please note that ]
I get it but my main goal was to encourage other users to spend more time and effort on finding reliable sources to improve the article rather than engage in rules-lawyering and ethnic labelling. The reluctance to get involved in something productive and undermine it to the contrary doesn't help the development of Wikipedia. If my superficial search ended up with something new, then it's highly probable that others would easily get to reliable sources as well. It's a matter of goodwill.--Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 12:52, 4 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I think that this comment boils down to "trust us, we'll find sources". I think that
salted, you should probably make a draft article and show it to an admin. Username6892 18:37, 4 July 2020 (UTC)[reply
]

@Kiril Simeonovski - perhaps you can advise and help improve the article with my edits, which some of the above users kept deleting saying they were not credible sources, even logging a copyright claim against me. In the history section you'll be able to see edits I made to help improve the article. Unfortunately, now I cannot submit edits as it seems the page is protected. My sources, 8 to be exact, one in Greek, which I translated, can be found above in the discussion which was hidden.

My edits:

In the book "The Macedonian Diaspora: Key to the Development of the Republic of Macedonia," Dr. Zlatko Nikoloski writes that the United Macedonian Diaspora (UMD) "is a high-level “think-tank”, seated in the world “seat of power”, Washington, with a "representative office and activities organized in Australia, of which the mission is to constitute a powerful Macedonian" voice "consisting of young Macedonians"...."globally unifying the Macedonian Diaspora, thus helping the development of the Republic of Macedonia.."

Source: https://www.academia.edu/43493347/The_Macedonian_Diaspora_Key_to_the_Development_of_the_Republic_of_Macedonia

According to Australia’s diplomatic footprint published by the Parliament of Australia, United Macedonian Diaspora's efforts improve Australian diplomacy. An example of this is UMD's proposal that the priorities for locating diplomatic posts were set by the Foreign Minister or DFAT, instead of other stakeholders, due to political, cost-cutting, and diplomatic reasons. Another example of this is their proposal of opening an Australian Embassy in Skopje, claiming that country's economy is expanding and establishing ties with 'the East', that an embassy would strengthen ties at multiple levels, and that an embassy would be beneficial for of "tens of thousands of Australians who visit Macedonia, Kosovo, and Albania and other parts of Southeast Europe."

Two Sources:

https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Joint/Completed_Inquiries/jfadt/Overseas%20Representation/report/chapter2 https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/House_of_Representatives_Committees?url=/mig/multiculturalism/report/chapter8.pdf

Thank you!

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The 2 bottom sources demonstrate some coverage of those opinions which the organization has, but not of the organization itself. Attributing opinions to someone doesn't give that person significant coverage. I think that the 1st book source you showed is more marginal to me as a source to make an organization notable (you need multiple of those). Perhaps the closing admin can look into this. Username6892 21:31, 4 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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I'd be wary of the first source. Anyone can post something on Academia.edu, and I don't see any indication it's been peer reviewed. It looks more like a Word document than a properly typeset book. It contains a lot of typos. Cordless Larry (talk) 21:36, 4 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Cordless Larry and @User:Username6892, I appreciate your opinion, however, it was not directed towards you. The Australian Parliament committee featured the organization in their two reports, they are independent and reliable sources. As far as the 1st source, I see that it has a Macedonian version on Academia.edu, which I assume was the first publication and then the book was translated into English. If you'd like I am happy to provide the Macedonian version link, and our expert Macedonian language translators on Wikipedia could perhaps translate into English to ensure no typos. I found the ISBN 978-9989-57-929-5, in case it is useful. Macedonia1913 (talk) 21:57, 4 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was delete. Tone 20:51, 2 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Zameen Jatt Dee Jaan

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Non notable film with no independent, verifiable reviews. Donaldd23 (talk) 01:04, 17 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was keep.

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C. Anandharamakrishnan

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Article is basically a résumé. I don't know if the subject if notable enough to warrant an article, but if so, I think

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The result was delete. Sandstein 07:49, 3 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Zaradachet Hajo

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Not notable and looks like a promotion, fails in

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The result was delete. Sandstein 07:48, 3 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Case Management Society of America

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Not notable, doesn't cite any sources, any useful information should be covered in

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The result was delete. Sandstein 07:48, 3 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Shakir Subhan

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Clearly lacks WP:GNG, given sources are not realiable and mostly not about him but about his "project"

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Delete Unreliable sources, not notable. –]
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The result was no consensus. Kragen's opinion cannot be taken seriously, but there's still no consensus to delete. Sandstein 07:48, 3 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Sam Zeloof

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Looks like a

WP:BLP1E: brief coverage of a single thing. Guy (help!) 14:08, 10 June 2020 (UTC)[reply
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  • Keep It is absurd that this article is being considered for deletion. Until Sam Zeloof, nobody had ever made an integrated circuit consisting of more than a few transistors, except as part of a group effort by a university or large company — no individual tinkerers in their garages like the ones who invented vulcanized rubber, the means for the measurement of the gravitational constant, Hall's economical refinement of aluminum, or most of the circuit designs that make modern electronics possible. Individuals with Zeloof-like budgets — a few tens of thousands of dollars — have succeeded in designing new chips in recent years, using MPW facilities like MOSIS and CMP, but at the cost of long turnaround times and no ability to experiment with process steps. Analog electronics has been in a widely-remarked-on state of stagnation for decades as a result. Zeloof has racked up an increasingly astounding series of world-first accomplishments, like a modern Charles Lindbergh or Santos Dumont. Hobby electronics, perhaps all electronics, and perhaps manufacturing in general, will naturally divide into a pre-Zeloof era and a post-Zeloof era; this will be as obvious to everyone as it is to electronics enthusiasts after a decade or two. Kragen Javier Sitaker (talk) 23:26, 23 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was no consensus. King of ♥ 22:13, 3 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Worldware

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Non-notable antique failed attempt to create a techy buzzword. The article has been tagged as orphan since 2009, although the tag was recently removed. HouseOfChange (talk) 13:46, 10 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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    WP:GNG. The only links that have been suggested for it are (broken, antique) course websites such as this one which briefly defines "worldware" as "software that can be applied to many purposes, to many ends." The section on Advantages is unreferenced OR. The section on its development also cites 0 sources but seems to be based on papers and other personal statements by Steve Ehrmann. GNG would require in-depth coverage in multiple RS independent of Steve Ehrmann. Once you remove the PROMO, what you have basically is a wiktionary entry for an obscure term once used to describe multipurpose software. HouseOfChange (talk) 15:18, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply
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I agree one can find many mentions of the word -- people using "worldware" and then explaining that it means "multipurpose software." But can one find sources (other than Ehrmann) that discuss the concept "worldware"--e.g. how and why the concept was developed? I can't, but if you can, please improve the article with them. If it is possible to create a good encyclopedia article about this concept, I will gladly withdraw my AfD submission. HouseOfChange (talk) 17:25, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I'd argue that most of the papers discuss the usage and benefits of the concept, and to me this fits your question of "why" the concept was developed and used. "How" the concept was developed, to me, is irrelevant. Sure, worldware might be a snazzy term for "multipurpose software" as you say, but Wikipedia has no article for
WP:HEYing this as I don't really care for the subject, I just think it has the right to exist. Mbdfar (talk) 17:44, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply
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The result was redirect to Allstar Weekend#2013-Present: Post-split. King of ♥ 22:13, 3 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The Tragic Thrills

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No notability for this band, no reviews, no chart success, no discussions in the industry magazines. Binksternet (talk) 03:16, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was soft delete. Based on

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Paul Tosari

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Non-notable evangelist. There have been no sources of him (According to two searches, see one and two), all I found were Wikipedia copies and mirror sites.

Also, article has lacked sources since May 2011. Koridas talk? 00:39, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Delete there are definitely sources out there - Google Books suggests this book discusses him quite a few times, and he gets mentions in other places e.g. [69] [70] but I don't think we've got enough to support an article at present. Possibly someone who speaks the relevant languages or who has access to print media could find something better. Hut 8.5 12:24, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was delete. Choosing delete vs. redirect because of the relatively generic title, which as pointed out makes it less useful as a search term. ♠PMC(talk) 11:04, 3 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Life Moves On

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The article fails the Notability guidelines for songs in Wikipedia as not only none of the three bullet points in the guidelines are met, but also there is not "subject of multiple, non-trivial published works whose sources are independent of the artist and label". It has a "Mzine" review and when I found out the editor-in-chief of said Mzine and google to see other places he worked such search came out empty, even if it is a reliable source, it is not multiple. Furthermore, in the links, there is one interview with the artist "This excludes media reprints of press releases, or other publications where the artist, its record label, agent, or other self-interested parties advertise or speak about the work", so it shouldn't be taken into consideration. MarioSoulTruthFan (talk) 00:29, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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