Talk:Gakio-Walton Scholarship

Notability
If you ignore the sources that are obviously closely tied to the school which hosts this scholarship, there are only two left. One is a blog, which does not count as a reliable source. The other is a nearby major metropolitan newspaper's education column. Such columns typically regurgitate information provided by nearby schools (that is, they are "warmed over press releases" in Wikipedia-speak), and this one appears to be no exception. Therefore, it is not considered an independent source.

When assessing a topic's notability, the presence or absence of reliable sources that are independent of the topic being covered which, individually or taken together, provide significant coverage of the subject are usually the key factors. If these are absent and there is no credible claim in the article that would suggest "doh! of course it's reliable" (e.g. if the article about Houston, Texas disappeared due to a technical glitch and someone re-created it but forgot the references, nobody would try to delete the redone article on notability grounds), then if the article is nominated for deletion, like this one has been, it will likely be deleted when the discussion closes in a week or so.

If this scholarship actually does meet Wikipedia's notability guidelines as listed at WP:Notability, please add appropriate sources or this page will likely be deleted. If, as I expect, this scholarship does not meet Wikipedia's notability guidelines, spend your time on other articles and let the discussion run its course and let the article be deleted. davidwr/ (talk)/(contribs)  04:55, 30 December 2013 (UTC)