Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Coalition for Freedom of Information


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The result was   merge to Taken. –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone  00:10, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Coalition for Freedom of Information

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I believe that this orginization is essentially WP:ONEEVENT. It was set-up as a promotional stunt for a television program. ScienceApologist (talk) 06:11, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Paranormal-related deletion discussions.   —Artw (talk) 06:25, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Merge The only thing I could find was this article on CNN, and one news story does not notability make. I suggest a merge with Taken, the series that CFI was set up to promote. Totnesmartin (talk) 12:02, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete Seems to have had no existence outside of "Steven Spielberg Presents Taken". If there is anything worth mentioning, it can be done at the article for that show.  Peacock (talk) 20:04, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions.   -- Raven1977 (talk) 00:30, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep. Nominator's assertions are unfounded or spurious. As the organization has held two press conferences one year apart the assertion that this gets covered by WP:ONEEVENT fails (what's more, this link is a section of Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons so it is hardly applicable here in any case). This fact also makes the issue of whether it was set up to promote a Sci-Fi Channel program irrelevant. Besides, this basic assertion is an obvious pejorative insinuation and I have deleted it as original research. A top-level public official giving his name to it on two occasions also gainsays this. __meco (talk) 09:35, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Merge to Taken, which could use the out-of-universe text. The organization does not seem to have garnered sufficient independent coverage to warrant an article, but the circumstances of its founding are notable to the show. - Eldereft (cont.) 22:31, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep The sources are sufficient--but a rewrite for NPOV would seem indicated. Theorganization is Fringe, and needs to be specified as such to avoid confusion. DGG (talk) 05:30, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Merge per WP:FICTION as stated above by the fact that it was set up to promote something. &eta;oian   &Dagger;orever &eta;ew &Dagger;rontiers  09:36, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

I have expanded the article considerably including a number of additional references. The claims that the organization is a mere PR ploy are just that, allegations, and it would be inappropriate in the context of this AFD to deal with this as established fact. I might add that I had no problem finding relable sources using Google search and I did not exhaust the available hits, so anyone who wants to expand the article even further should be able to do that. __meco (talk) 11:07, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Merge to Taken - Expanded it may be, worthy of it's own article it still isn't. Richard Hock (talk) 16:59, 5 January 2009 (UTC)


 * keep per meco. Artw (talk) 17:23, 5 January 2009 (UTC)


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