Talk:The Goldin Institute

Notability problems
This article does not establish the subject's notability. It lacks significant third party sources; almost all of the sources are either the Goldin Institute themselves, or groups described as being partners with Goldin. The WBEZ source is not about Goldin, it's about microfinance and happens to use someone from Goldin as a talking head, but that does not establish the notability of the group. I am restoring the notability tag; please do not delete this until there are multiple significant third party sources talking about the group (and given the history of deletion of the tag, it's probably best that you discuss the removal of the tag on Talk and reach consensus before removing it) --Nat Gertler (talk) 04:13, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

Thank you very much for the feedback Nat. As this is my first entry I am still getting the hang of this. The reason that I included the WBEZ source was first to verify that an interview with the executive director aired on Worldview in June of 2011, and also to establish notability apart from the organization's website. I agree that the WBEZ interview does not focus on the Goldin Institute as an organization directly. It does however establish that WBEZ, a highly respected news outlet reached out to a subject matter expert, Travis Rejman, whose organization does significant work on the topic of reforming microcredit practices. This source establishes that the Goldin Institute has credibility on the subject of microcredit. The source also establishes a collaboration between The Goldin Institute and Grantmakers Without Boarders on a published report about microcredit practices. The published report was also given as a third party source. I would also argue that citing notable and credible organizations that have collaborated with The Goldin Institute, The Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti for example, would help to establish the subject's notability. With each collaborator listed in the article, I included the citation referencing the collaboration. I am working to get the hang of process and I really do appreciate the discussion. I am happy to add more third party sources to reach a consensus and welcome others to do the same. i look forward to continuing the conversation. thanks again! DiMo84 (talk) 19:47, 23 February 2012 (UTC)


 * The WBEZ source is fine for establishing the fact that it's there for (although I'm not sure how important it is that the article covers that someone from the org once spoke on the radio), but in general interviews with people are not considered to establish notability unless the interview is about them and their work, and additionally notability is not inherited - even if it's established that a person is notable, that does not mean that the company they work for is. For the guidelines on what constitutes notability for an organization, see WP:CORP. You'll see it leads off with "An organization is generally considered notable if it has been the subject of significant coverage in reliable, independent secondary sources." That's really what we're looking for. I hope that helps! --Nat Gertler (talk) 20:59, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks again for the input. I deleted the original WBEZ source and added a separate WBEZ segment in which the interview is directly about the Institutes study and their program in Bangladesh. I also added an Institute study published by the Institute for Food and Development Policy. Thanks again. DiMo84 (talk) 03:38, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

I am learning how to edit Wikipedia for a class. I was supposed to make a small edit to a Wikipedia article. I just added the executive director's name to the page under "Key people". Because the edit I made is in the pages "infobox", I was not sure where to add a citation for this small edit. The information I added should be cited from this link. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Asmyse2 (talk • contribs) 01:58, 21 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Even in the infobox, the reference note should be placed right after the information. The footnote will still appear at the bottom of the page. Since you're doing this for class, I will give you a day to try doing it yourself before handling it directly. --Nat Gertler (talk) 04:11, 21 September 2017 (UTC)