Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa


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The result was   keep. You can discuss about a possible move in the talk page. (non-admin closure) LlamaAl (talk) 00:16, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa

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I don't think this organisation passes WP:ORG. This article was PROD-ed, but I challenged the PROD saying that the reference in the article had some good coverage. The problem is that the author of that coverage, Kimani Njogu, is also the founding chair of the organisation, and so the source isn't independent of the organisation and therefore can't count toward notability. After I noticed this, I considered reinstating the PROD, but I think AfD is a better venue because there are sources in Swahili that I don't have the language skill to evaluate, and there are also a couple of mentions of the organisation in scholarly books, e.g. this and this (although I don't think the mentions are substantial enough to count as "significant coverage" per the notability guidelines). — Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 15:14, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
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 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, — Theopolisme   ( talk )  21:09, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

 
 * Keep I conclude that discussion in academic books, discussion of the acronym CHAKITA, plus several mentions in the Swahili language, add up to notability. As the group exists to promote Swahili as an alternative to English, it seems likely that the most in-depth coverage would be in that language.  Cullen 328   Let's discuss it  21:35, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
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 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Vaca  tion  9  00:00, 23 February 2013 (UTC)


 * Keep - It appears that the initiatives of the organization CHAKITA and its head are the subject of multiple independent pieces of published coverage, exemplified by THIS NEWS PIECE FROM SABAHI ONLINE, "Kenyans Call for the Use of Swahili During Second Presidential Debate." Carrite (talk) 19:29, 23 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Comment - If this ends a keep, the name of the article should be changed to National Kiswahili Association-Kenya, which appears to the common English name used by scholars. See H-NET. Carrite (talk) 19:35, 23 February 2013 (UTC)
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