User talk:Kevinbsmith

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Speedy deletion nomination of Cornucopia Institute
A tag has been placed on Cornucopia Institute requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about about a person, organization (band, club, company, etc.) or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable. You may also wish to consider using a Wizard to help you create articles - see the Article Wizard.

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Cornucopia Institute
The entire article, as written, consisted of the following text: The Cornucopia Institute is a non-profit organization headquartered in Cornucopia, WI, with the mission of "Seeking economic justice for the family-scale farming community".

It has published several reports, including one on hexane used in processing soy products.

What's necessary to make the article keepable is not a matter of just adding one more sentence; it's a matter of references in reliable sources. It's not good enough to add one or two sources which briefly mention the group to demonstrate that the organization exists, as mere existence is not what constitutes notability on Wikipedia; you need to add media sources (newspaper articles, books, etc.) which are specifically about the group and which demonstrate exactly what it is about the group that makes them something we should have an article about. Hope that helps a bit. Bearcat (talk) 22:40, 3 November 2010 (UTC)


 * I just re-created the article, with copious references. It still seems to me that before deeming an article non-notable, and deleting it within a day, that someone could do a search within wikipedia itself, and see that about three of the other wp articles that mention this group had their own references. In cases like that, I think the presumption should be that it probably is notable. Kevinbsmith (talk) 17:02, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

Hi Kevin, I'm the one that has tried repeatedly tried to write an article on Cornucopia with deletions - thanks for you interest in getting this on here! I agree that they shouldn't delete so quickly! I will repost the article I wrote on my mytalk page - I'd appreciate your input, maybe together we can figure this out! Here's where I repost it for editing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Gardenerlynn/Cornucopia_InstituteGardenerlynn (talk) 17:29, 9 November 2010 (UTC)gardenerlynn