Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Central Virginia Legal Aid Society


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was no consensus.  MBisanz  talk 03:06, 7 August 2016 (UTC)

Central Virginia Legal Aid Society

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This article is nothing but a promotional piece for a organization that fails WP:ORG with no reliable sources that have anything else than a brief mention of it. Jauerbackdude?/dude. 18:35, 14 July 2016 (UTC)


 * Speedy delete unambiguous advertising The Banner talk 21:18, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep - A notable non-profit organization funded by the Commonwealth of Virginia, with 27 inline citations. It does need copyediting, but that problem is not cause for deletion. Consider Legal Aid Society of Cleveland and Legal Aid Society of Louisville as like notable organizations elsewhere. --DThomsen8 (talk) 15:11, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
 * the article has substantially improved since the AFD was listed, but outside of the citations to their own website, not a single one of the rest of those 27 citations is about the organization itself. Those citations only mention Central Virginia Legal Aid Society when referring to a lawyer who currently (or formerly) works there or as a mere listing of legal resources. As far as other similar legal organizations? Those other two have some major notability issues themselves and may deserve their own AFDs. Besides, please see WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS. --Jauerback, 15:19, 16 July 2016 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete There's nothing to work with here. This badly fails WP:ORGDEPTH. Yes, this organization is mentioned in passing by a variety of sources. That doesn't make it notable. Several of the sources cited do not even mention this organization. The only marginal claim to fame is this organization supposedly twice won the Harrison Tweed Award. The problem there is the citation used to support this claim is broken. This award is given by the American Bar Association. Looking at their site, I can find no reference at all to support this claim at least as far back as 1994 . I am also troubled that a single purpose account, User:Mcwhitfield, is the prime author of the article. Is there conflict of interest violation here? One of the main reasons we need secondary sources to support content in an article is so that a balanced approach to a subject can be obtained. Secondary sources that do more than mention this organization are completely absent. Not surprisingly, several passages in this article treat the subject in superlative terms. --Hammersoft (talk) 14:56, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Sandstein   15:11, 22 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep per WP:OUTCOMES, because we have tended to keep larger LAS's and this one is pretty big and well-known. Bearian (talk) 16:13, 22 July 2016 (UTC)
 * I cleaned it up a bit. It's not so bad as to warrant WP:TNT -- normal editing can fix it. Bearian (talk) 16:20, 22 July 2016 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 21:45, 30 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Law-related deletion discussions. NewYorkActuary (talk) 22:27, 2 August 2016 (UTC)
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 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Virginia-related deletion discussions. NewYorkActuary (talk) 22:27, 2 August 2016 (UTC)


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