Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Battelle National Biodefense Institute


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The result was redirect to National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center. The Bushranger One ping only 22:18, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

Battelle National Biodefense Institute

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Non-notable organization mentioned only in passing in reliable sources. Meatsgains (talk) 00:56, 27 October 2017 (UTC)

I think it should stay up for a while while editors including myself can improve it. It's the subject of a Bloomberg URL (company profiles) and is, yes mentioned in passing in other reliable sources. However, I think we can apply the "There are no rules" rule here and recognize the organization's importance in the national security apparatus. Scientists there do research on pathogens that don't yet have a treatment or vaccine, and it houses the Department of Homeland Security's premier research agency on bioterrorism pathogens. That's my two cents. --Harris195622 (talk) 01:07, 27 October 2017 (UTC)
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 * Redirect to National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center with possibly a selective merge (though from my look - most of what's here is in NBACC). I was about to !vote keep as a major biowarfare unit in a significant country should have an entry (and BNBI has coverage) - however it seems that BNBI mostly runs NBACC and doesn't do much else, and that coverage of BNBI is mainly due to NBACC - which is a well developed article. Icewhiz (talk) 05:25, 27 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Redirect to National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center, I just spent a few minutes trying to puzzle out why this new article was created, tracking down and adding the url to a source. And coming to the conclusion that should be redirected or merged. Unless page creator User:Harris195622 wants to explain why we need a separate article on this.E.M.Gregory (talk) 17:26, 27 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Redirect as suggested above. Judging from a few press releases I could find (no independent WP:SIGCOV), this seems to be a subsidiary of Battelle Memorial Institute whose pretty much only job is running NBACC. The statements that the institute itself has activities unconnected to NBACC aren't backed by their refs. Daß &thinsp; Wölf 03:18, 1 November 2017 (UTC)


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