Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/African Leadership Network


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The result was   delete. slakr \ talk / 13:15, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

African Leadership Network

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Doesn't seem to have sufficient coverage in independent sources to warrant an article. Everything I've found in searching has either originated from the ALN itself, one of its officers, or an affiliated organisation such as the Omidyar Network - plus a few passing mentions in business books. I'm happy to withdraw this on the appearance of a couple of decent independent sources, but I'm not convinced they're likely to be forthcoming. Yunshui 雲 &zwj; 水  12:05, 23 January 2014 (UTC) Delete: my own search for sources turned up very little and certainly there is a promotional intent from key contributors. ''' Flat Out   let's discuss it   12:23, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Note Not directly relevant, since I didn't cite the promotional nature of the text as part of my argument, but !voters may want to consider that my attempt to restore some neutrality to the page was promptly reverted by the page's creator (which appears to be a single purpose account). Yunshui 雲 &zwj; 水  12:21, 23 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete Looks like advertising and name dropping to me. The Banner talk 12:41, 23 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Point of information The article was originally entitled "Africa awards for entrepreneurship" but then re-named to "African Leadership Network" which (according to the article) now organizes these awards, "African awards for entrepreneurship" has 463,000 Google matches, including a Guardian article compared to 261,000 for "African Leadership Network". Given that, rightly or wrongly, the AAE is included in this article I think there may be sufficient RSs. Arjayay (talk) 12:51, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
 * It does look as though the awards themselves would be worth having an article on - however, it would need to be about the awards, not the organisation behind them. Since there's little salvageable content here, I'd support a merge of what decent material is available in the current article to a new page about the African Award for Entrepreneurship, and the conversion of the existing title into a redirect. Yunshui 雲 &zwj; 水  14:24, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
 * The Guardian article is "sponsored content", i.e. an advert, and not a good reliable source. --LukeSurlt c 00:14, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Africa-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000(talk) 15:55, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000(talk) 15:55, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000(talk) 15:55, 23 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Comment I don't really care one way or the other. BlueSalix (talk) 17:08, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete Per nom. 3er40 (talk) 03:30, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete not enough independent sources to establish notability; many seemingly okay citations are PR rewrites.94.194.24.46 (talk) 03:43, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Relisting comment: The article was considerably modified after most of the opinions were left here; please re-evaluate if appropriate.--Ymblanter (talk) 08:29, 31 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ymblanter (talk) 08:29, 31 January 2014 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.