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13 June 2024

PAR Technology (closed)

Otago NORML

Otago NORML (talk|edit|history|logs|links|watch) (XfD|restore)

I am requesting a review of my closure following an inquiry on my talk page by Dclemens1971. I closed this as "keep" after determining that there was a consensus that coverage in the Otago Daily Times was sufficient to establish notability. I would appreciate feedback as to whether this was a reasonable decision. If it was not, would it have been better to close the discussion as "no consensus," or to relist it? Jake Wartenberg (talk) 14:02, 13 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relist Overturn to no consensus, agnostic about whether to relist (involved). Thanks for flagging this. While there were more "keep" !votes than "delete," it was 5 to 3, so not a strong consensus and had only been relisted once. Four of the five "keep" supporters !voted before the applicable criteria for

WP:BRANCH, which requires greater scope of sources beyond local news for a chapter of an organization, were brought into the discussion, and thus it would have been worthwhile to allow more discussion. Dclemens1971 (talk) 14:15, 13 June 2024 (UTC) EDITED TO ADD: After the discussion below I am clarifying my !vote and I am now agnostic about whether the AfD is relisted. A N/C close is more closely aligned with the outcome of the discussion and allows a future nominator to write a better nomination statement. Dclemens1971 (talk) 16:52, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[reply

]

• I'm not sure
  WP:THREE best sources? [1] seems to not have significant coverage of the group. The school paper article is, of course, solid in terms of depth. Hobit (talk) 01:55, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply
  ]

  It appears to have been established as a branch of

  WP:RSSM. I don't want to relitigate the AfD though, I just thought it appeared that there was not a consensus formed and that a relist might have brought in additional perspective and a firm consensus. Dclemens1971 (talk) 03:14, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply

  ]

  I get not wanting to relitigate (that really isn't the point of DRV). But what I'm trying to do is gage the strength of arguments made in the AfD. An issue you raised here was WP:BRANCH not having time to be discussed in the AfD. Our article says "It is not affiliated to the national New Zealand cannabis law reform organisation NORML New Zealand". So I'm wondering if the

  WP:BRANCH argument made above is relevant. Hobit (talk) 03:27, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply

  ]

  Sources indicate it was founded as a chapter but at some point lost its affiliation (see its facebook page and archived website: https://web.archive.org/web/20101121002708/http://www.otagonorml.com/?q=node/13). Even if affiliation was removed at some indeterminate point, it still seems reasonable to apply the WP:BRANCH criteria to a group that appeared to operate as a chapter for most of its existence. Dclemens1971 (talk) 11:31, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  The school paper does not contribute to notability of a student organization. See the unanimous consensus recorded

  here (given their local audience and lack of independence from their student body, student media does not contribute to notability for topics related to home institutions. JoelleJay (talk) 18:52, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply

  ]

• Overturn I don't see keep as a possible result here. It's clear from the keep !votes that coverage is very marginal. One delete !voter brings up
  WP:BRANCH applies - the NORML New Zealand page says it is a branch and this page says it is not a branch and none of the sources, well, work, and in any case that's sort of beyond what a closer should be doing. I probably would have relisted this, but I think I might have endorsed a delete result and no consensus probably makes the most sense if someone has to close this, even though I think the delete !votes are stronger. SportingFlyer T·C 05:12, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply
  ]

  FWIW, I spot checked one of the ODT listings, which said it was indeed a branch of NORML NZ. Jclemens (talk) 17:23, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  Then those citing BRANCH were correct. SportingFlyer T·C 15:21, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Relist or close as N/C and allow a renom in the short term future. While a keep isn't wrong per se, I don't see that the case being made strongly for GNG. Star Mississippi 16:10, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Weak Endorse I think merge (even though the !votes were mostly binary keep/delete) would have been the best policy-based outcome in light of that discussion, with no consensus also a strong contender. Keep would have been my third choice, but I see no reason to NOT relist an additional time. Some of our experienced closers will relist with a statement asking the participants to choose between two non-deletion arguments--merge or keep, in this case--and that might have been the best thing to do. Jclemens (talk) 17:22, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  “Merge” would have been a WP:Supervote. I would !vote to overturn it. A “no consensus” close with instructions to discuss a merge on the talk page. Interestingly, this was done fourteen years ago at

  WP:RENOM. SmokeyJoe (talk) 23:53, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply

  ]

  Admins are to ferret out the rough consensus based on a discussion. That's not limited to counting noses, or even the options listed. Picking an outcome other than the obvious one getting the most !votes could be a supervote... but it can also be a correct reading of a policy-based consensus. Jclemens (talk) 04:46, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  That discussion does not show a rough consensus to merge. SmokeyJoe (talk) 10:43, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  Your opinion differs from mine. Jclemens (talk) 23:56, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  Admins have the privilege of calling a rough consensus. If that prerogative were being used, I would expect a much better closing explanation, including use of the words “rough consensus”. Maybe a rough consensus call with a good closing statement would have been good, but then, who is going to merge what? The closer? SmokeyJoe (talk) 13:16, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  I'm not sure speculating beyond this point is useful, but yes, a merge to NORML New Zealand, with an appropriate closing statement, to be done by whomever (I don't normally see closers doing merges themselves, but I'm sure it happens) would be a close I consider appropriate. Jclemens (talk) 03:52, 19 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Endorse (noninvolved), seeing no reason to overturn or even relist, the close took into account the comments and reasoning. Randy Kryn (talk) 14:19, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Overturn to no consensus and do not relist. There is clearly no consensus to delete and there is no indication that consensus was “trending” in that direction. There was no additional support for delete after the AFD was relisted, only a single, well-reasoned keep vote which refuted some of the claims made by the delete/merge voters. I do think a better case was made for delete/merge, which is why NC is a better close than keep. However, clearly there is not consensus to not keep the page. Frank Anchor 14:52, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Overturn and relist. Assertions of meeting GNG were rebutted and/or plainly incorrect (e.g. The sustained ODT coverage brings this over the general notability line and For example, the Critic here, establish GNG are obviously problematic since all ODT articles are considered only one source, which is not sufficient for the relevant guideline, and The Critic, in addition to also only being one source, fails independence per the cited consensus at RSP). These !votes should have been heavily down-weighted. The argument The rationale for deletion being presented is that, while this is a subject of multiple pieces of significant, independent, published coverage of presumed reliability assumes either that the ODT sources are sufficient (they are not, as they don't count as "multiple") or that the One News source counts toward GNG (no: as noted in the discussion, there is no coverage of NORML, only a namedrop and mentions of Gray), and anyway fails to actually rebut the NORG requirement for non-local SIRS. The random drive-by comment on AUD was worthless as it falsely asserts coverage in national sources and argues the "regional" definition in AUD includes basically any newspaper extending past city limits, despite the requirement in BRANCH actually being "coverage beyond the local area" rather than "coverage in a newspaper designated 'regional'". JoelleJay (talk) 19:35, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Endorse Overturn (to “no consensus”) (uninvolved)
  WP:BRANCH, mentioned a few times at the AfD and here, is not a reason for deletion but for a merge and redirect, and as this was not couched in the nomination, a relist is not appropriate.
  While investigating, I noted that User:Jake Wartenberg has little experience at AfD, according to AfDstats. They should get some more experience at AfD before closing contested AfDs, but this does not amount to a reason to not endorse.
  Arguably, the discussion could have been closed as “no consensus”, but “delete” could not have been justified. SmokeyJoe (talk) 23:32, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply
  ]

  A renomination should not be allowed for at least two months, taking the result as “no consensus”, or sox months per WP:RENOM, to allow sufficient reflection on why this AfD failed.

  Two or six months is not very long for a sixteen year old article with a very quiet talk page. SmokeyJoe (talk) 00:05, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  Hi there. @SmokeyJoe. I am familiar with RENOM; I was not the nominator and have no plans to renominate it. I raised my concern directly to the closer because the decision did not seem to align with the discussion. Dclemens1971 (talk) 02:18, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  Why does it matter that the nomination statement was weak when !voters provided strong rationales? BRANCH also doesn't mandate merging/redirecting--it explicitly says this is an option in some cases, not all. In some cases, a specific local chapter or sub-organization that is not considered notable enough for its own article may be significant enough to mention within the context of an article about the parent organization. [...] Information on chapters and affiliates should normally be merged into the article about the parent organization. [...] Information on sub-chapters of notable organizations might be included in either prose or a brief list in the main article on the organization. The "should" in "should normally be merged" is in reference to those subchapters that do qualify as "some cases", it doesn't mean merging is appropriate in every case--otherwise the preceding and succeeding bullets wouldn't make sense. JoelleJay (talk) 01:57, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  “the nomination statement was weak” is intended as advice to the nominator for next time, and to other nominators. It doesn’t matter per se, it just tends to produce train wrecks. User:Carrite, for example, even arriving late in the discussion, gives a hard rebuttal to the weak nomination. Weak nominations make for a non-flowing poorly structure discussion for the next arriving participant, and according they tend to attract random drive-by comments that further derail the discussion from finding consensus.

  Re BRANCH. Did I say “mandate”? I would say that it is a reason to merge, unless there are better reasons to not merge, and when that happens, those reasons are the reason to delete or redirect, and mentioning BRANCH was probably unhelpful. These things weren’t thrashed out in the AfD, were they?

  Dclemens pushed the BRANCH argument, but nowhere do I see it being used alongside a reason to not merge.

  Maybe it should have been a no consensus close, yes maybe it should, but it couldn’t have been a “delete”. The case for deletion was not made. This being a review forum, it is appropriate to look for reasons for the discussion failing to find consensus. As I’ve seen in made cases brought to DRV, the root cause of the failure of the discussion was the weak nomination. My opinion on what the outcome should be is not appropriate to voice at DRV, just a review of the AfD and its close. The best way forward is a RENOM. A relist means the trainwreck stays at the top. SmokeyJoe (talk) 13:05, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Endorse pretty much per SmokeyJoe. I'd have probably closed as NC or relist, but keep was within discretion and I don't believe delete was. Redirect or merge might be the best outcome here but A) it wasn't really discussed much and B) it's not clear what the target would be. Hobit (talk) 23:46, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Endorse. I would have closed as no consensus or relisted (and perhaps providing some of the reasoning in the close would have helped as well). That said, I think this is a reasonable interpretation of the strengths of the arguments. Malinaccier (talk) 01:22, 19 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Endorse. As others here said, a N/C would have been acceptable as well, with the only practical difference between the two being the expected duration before renomination. The distinction isn't worth spending time on. Owen× ☎ 18:13, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]