Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Association of Telehealth Service Providers (2nd nomination)


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The result was delete. – filelakeshoe (t / c) 🐱 08:38, 28 June 2019 (UTC)

Association of Telehealth Service Providers
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No references, and quick search found no sources. The organization's website is a dead link. This is second nomination. Doubtful they were notable the first time, but certainly aren't now. Senator2029 “Talk” 16:17, 20 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Health and fitness-related deletion discussions. Senator2029 “Talk”  16:17, 20 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. Senator2029</b> <b style="color:#09F;">“Talk”</b>  16:17, 20 June 2019 (UTC)


 * Comment. When a link is dead, it can often be recovered using the Internet Archive. In this case, an archive of the organizations website can be found at http://web.archive.org/web/20140701102452/http://www.atsp.org/ and an earlier version (with information about the organization) at http://web.archive.org/web/20041214091211/http://www.atsp.org/  The organization appears to be defunct. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 22:50, 20 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete. I've found nothing. —Compassionate727 (T·C) 01:46, 22 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Comment. I've created this loooong ago when I didn't know much about WP:NORG. While the mention is in passing, the source does call it a 'major tele m/h organization." Some of its surveys from ~15 years ago or so are cited in a number of works, but there is no in-depth coverage of the organization. Some of the best 'in-passing' mentions: This source found through GScholar mentions it in passing: "The major tele- medicine and telehealth organizations, such as the ATA and the Association of Telehealth Service Providers, continue to direct lobbying efforts toward these issues."  states "Lobbying efforts by the American Telemedicine Association and the Association of Telehealth Service Providers, groups representing the industry, have strongly influenced changes in US federal telehealth reimbursement policy. " Overall, that doesn't seem to suffice to rescue this article. I guess it can be mention in passing in some other articles, but there's probably not enough information about it to cobble more than 2-3 sentences, so hardly enough to argue it is notable. And if their website is inactive, this only suggests that whatever they were doing, they either failed or succeeded, so no new sources will discuss it unless one day some historian publishes more research into this org and its significance. But until this happens, they are probably not an organization worth having their own encyclopedic page.  --<sub style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here  11:06, 23 June 2019 (UTC)


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