Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/American–Israeli Cooperative Enterprise


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The result was soft delete. Based on minimal participation, this uncontroversial nomination is treated as an expired PROD (a.k.a. "soft deletion"). Editors can request the article's undeletion. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 04:04, 5 June 2020 (UTC)

American–Israeli Cooperative Enterprise

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Fails WP:GNG – no significant coverage in independent sources.

This grandly named organization appears to be a personal tax and public relations vehicle for Mitchell Bard – the tax filings for 2018 (and 2017) show revenues of $196 thousand dollars (p.1), of which $164 thousand went straight to pay Mitchell Bard (p.7) and $23 thousand went to "occupancy" (p.10, which presumably is for the usage of his home-office), and the Vice President/Secretary is Mitchell Bard's son, Arthur (last page). The "Board of Directors" are paid zero (common for a real charity, but odd when all the revenues are going to one person), the "Advisory Board" look to be wealthy people who donated to Bard, and the "Honorary Committee" look like a list of political types that Bard knew from his time at AIPAC.

Re WP:GNG, there is no detailed information on this organization from third party sources, and our article is replete with WP:ABOUTSELF references. It was created in 2011 with three ABOUTSELF references, presumably with the intention that it would be built out with better refs over time. But a decade later, and despite the hard work of to improve the article over the years, we have been unable to find "significant coverage" to justify this article being forked from Mitchell Bard. Onceinawhile (talk) 07:26, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
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