Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chartered Institute of Marketing Ghana


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The result was keep. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 15:13, 21 June 2019 (UTC)

Chartered Institute of Marketing Ghana

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Does not make a claim of importance or significance. Has only one source, which is its own domain name www.cimghana.org. In searching for sources I find nothing usable, only passing mentions, the giving out of its award, or its expression of condolences after a disaster. Does not appear to satisfy WP:ORG or WPGNG. Lopifalko (talk) 17:26, 6 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Advertising-related deletion discussions. Lopifalko (talk) 17:26, 6 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Ghana-related deletion discussions. Lopifalko (talk) 17:26, 6 June 2019 (UTC)


 * Keep — This is a professional institutions/body just like the UK's Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. There are WP:RS available online on Google Books if you search the original name of this organisation (the Institute of Marketing, Ghana ) covering the subject in-depth. We should be very slow to nominate or delete African related articles especially if the subject is very old e.g. old organisations before the advent of the internet. Google sometimes does not index African sources or takes a hell of a lot of time before indexing them. Also, just because one can't find sources online does not mean there aren't off-line sources. Here are some sources discussing the subject matter although some are in snippets but if you do a specific search you can complete or make out the whole text/paragraph. For example here addressing the launching of the Institute of Marketing, Ghana'and the reason for the launch as well as what it tries to promote/its responsibilities; the founding of the organisation in 1981 and its board; and here in the Nexus Commonwealth Network. Here are also sources of the new name in Google Scholars .Tamsier (talk) 11:03, 8 June 2019 (UTC)
 * This is useful and I will look into all your points. Firstly, you say "This is a professional institutions/body" but its web site appears to say it is not yet a professional body: "The vision of the Ghana School of Marketing is to become a model marketing professional institute, providing top classes marketing education.". -Lopifalko (talk) 13:14, 8 June 2019 (UTC)
 * That is just a vision statement as Phil has pointed out below. WP:COMMONSENSE needs to apply sometimes.Tamsier (talk) 12:09, 9 June 2019 (UTC)


 * Keep. For better results it's best to omit both "chartered" and "the" from searches:
 * The Google Books, Scholar and News searches all find plenty of coverage in reliable sources. What this institute might say in its "vision statement" is meaningless, as all such vision statements that I have ever seen are. Phil Bridger (talk) 15:03, 8 June 2019 (UTC)
 * The Google Books, Scholar and News searches all find plenty of coverage in reliable sources. What this institute might say in its "vision statement" is meaningless, as all such vision statements that I have ever seen are. Phil Bridger (talk) 15:03, 8 June 2019 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Sandstein   11:27, 14 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep per Tamsier and Phil Bridger. Senegambianamestudy (talk) 01:50, 21 June 2019 (UTC)


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