Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Atlantic Whale Foundation


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The result was   delete. J04n(talk page) 22:41, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

Atlantic Whale Foundation

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It pains me to do this, but this article about a whale charity has been sourced entirely from its own website. I left clean-up tags in October 2011 but the problem hasn't been addressed. In fact, judging by todays edits the article is being used as an undisguised promotional call for volunteers for their projects. I had a look in 2011 for independent sources and looked again today, the best I could find was a brief mention about the involvement of a volunteer with a stranded whale in 2006. It's probably time for the article to go. Sionk (talk) 23:52, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
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 * Delete - No significant coverage in reliable sources. Note that the stranded whale in 2006 onlyhad brief mentiosn of the volunteer in the material I saw and fell well short of what would be needed to establish notability. -- Whpq (talk) 21:49, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete for now - This is a "whale" of a charity but despite performing multiple detailed searches with Google News, the only news links I have found are this (event listing) and here (fundraiser) along with Google Books providing a group profile. In my Google News search, I also found a "Fortnightly Tenerife News" article but it seems the website no longer exists and I couldn't recover it at archive.org but it seemed to only briefly mention them. In that same search, I also found justgiving.com donation links but that's not an acceptable reference. Unfortunately, the article reads like an advertisement without substantial third-party links. I searched the BBC News website in hopes to find articles but I only found this gallery photo for the 2006 stranded whale. Searches at The Telegraph, The Guardian and New York Times didn't provide anything. I have no objection to userfying or a future article when notable. I love nature very much and wish I could say keep as this is obviously a noble cause but notability is required. SwisterTwister   talk  20:54, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
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