Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure


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The result was delete. Clear (near unanimous) consensus to delete due to insufficient sources to meet our various notability criteria. -- RoySmith (talk) 21:34, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure

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This article has been around for ten years without anybody adding any real evidence of notability. &mdash; RHaworth (talk · contribs) 15:39, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete - Subject is only mentioned in passing in reliable sources. Most search results pull up press releases. I also searched for ABC² and there still isn't much out there. Meatsgains (talk) 15:42, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 17:00, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 17:00, 15 November 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete as I concur, what's listed is simply what any general information would be listed about the company, I'll note there's not even actual claims of significance or substance, let alone convincing; next I'll also note there was a noticeable amount of SPA accounts, which is self-explanatory by itself. SwisterTwister   talk  20:15, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep I recommend to keep the listing but improve it in order to provide the benefit/notability information. Admittedly, the current page is merely a shell with stale information. The ABC2.org Projects page states the following: "Since 2001, ABC2 has awarded more than 100 grants totaling over $20 million to world-renowned researchers and physician-scientists from 54 institutions." When I search within Google News I find a mixture of press releases as well as regular articles discussing either events, donations or their research investments. ABC2 is particularly known for cohosting the annual Washington, D.C. "Race for Hope DC"  which generates awareness for Brain Tumors and which saw over 11,000 participants in 2016. Here is a list of the current investments . They are different from many nonprofit organizations in the sense that they are all about venture philanthropy . Their current key research investment is in Tocagen  and ABC2 is mentioned as a nonprofit grantor at the bottom of this Tocagen press release  Sozocreative (talk) 14:19, 16 November 2016 (UTC) SozoCreative
 * — Sozocreative (talk&#32;• contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 15:44, 16 November 2016 (UTC)
 * This is my personal Wikipedia account, though I am not an active Wikipedia participant (just an active Wikipedia reader). I am not an employee of ABC2 but I do manage their Google Grant AdWords account (and have for many years) which, from my understanding of Wikipedia's guidelines, makes me unable to personally edit/enhance the ABC2 Wikipedia page (please correct me if I am wrong). I have not been asked by ABC2 to edit or "revive" their Wikipedia page. I discovered the page had been deleted yesterday. Sozocreative (talk) 16:50, 16 November 2016 (UTC) SozoCreative
 * The news coverage of this organization does seem dominated by Google-described "PR Web (press release)" hits. It does appear to fail WP:ORG. Delete . Shawn in Montreal (talk) 19:53, 16 November 2016 (UTC)
 * The passing mention in Time does help, and the paywalled article in Nature could be good. It does appear to be a leading national charitable group in the cerebral cancer area, even if it only meets one of the two criteria in WP:NGO. Change to neutral. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 15:42, 18 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure and its CEO, Max Wallace, were featured in an article of the May 2016 Nature (science journal), but apparently Nature requires a subscription to view the article online . ABC2 is mentioned in a 2012 xconomy article and a 2011 Time Magazine article . David Cook of American Idol fame has (over the past several years) raised over $1 million for ABC2 and its brain cancer research funding efforts  and . Sozocreative (talk) 18:51, 17 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Vice President Joe Biden was present at ABC2's Race for Hope DC in May 2016 and spoke after his son passed away from brain cancer and a roughly filmed YouTube video . The Race for Hope is an annual event in Washington, D.C. put on by both ABC2 and the National Brain Tumor Society  and is going into its 20th year. Sozocreative (talk) 19:09, 17 November 2016 (UTC)
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 * Redirect to Case Foundation from which the org gets its funding as I understand it. Otherwise this is just "org spam". Anything useful can be picked up from the article history, although I'm not sure there would be much of it. K.e.coffman (talk) 00:42, 20 November 2016 (UTC)
 * ABC2.org is a completely different and separate organization from The Stephen Case Foundation. ABC2.org was started by Dan and Stacey Case (Dan is a brother of Steve) along with Steve & Jean Case (who have The Stephen Case Foundation); Dan was diagnosed with untreatable brain cancer which was the impetus behind starting ABC2; see this NY Times article about Dan Case and the founding of ABC2 ). While the Stephen Case Foundation provides some funding to ABC2.org each year, the bulk of ABC2.org funding comes through the events it holds (especially the annual Race for Hope in Washington, D.C.) and thousands of individual donors. Sozocreative (talk) 19:24, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete - concerns about the passing mentions and the over involvement of the involved accounts which comes across as attempts at promotion. Sagecandor (talk) 02:45, 22 November 2016 (UTC)


 * Since no suitable target is available, then delete. K.e.coffman (talk) 04:18, 22 November 2016 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * In the specialized world of brain research, Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure is a well known and well established organization responsible for funding over a hundred different research projects. Here is a September 2016 video interview "Brain-machine interfaces could force us to reconsider the definition of disability" by the Washington Post with several scientists including Max Wallace, CEO of Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure. Max Wallace shares some of the current research which ABC2 is funding to help scientists & physicians better understand the brain in order to address brain tumors/brain cancer. ABC2's Allele Project (a collaboration with The Broad Institute and cancer centers such as Dana Farber) was created to bring robust genomic profiling to brain cancer patients . Sozocreative (talk) 14:40, 23 November 2016 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  MBisanz  talk 16:51, 24 November 2016 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, — UY Scuti Talk  19:32, 1 December 2016 (UTC)
 * delete obvious WP:PROMO to give more visibility to the foundation. There are insufficient independent, reliable sources that the discuss this foundation per se.   See WP:Golden rule. Jytdog (talk) 21:23, 10 December 2016 (UTC)


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