Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cryonics Society


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The result was   delete. Mark Arsten (talk) 12:42, 31 August 2012 (UTC)

Cryonics Society

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Non-notable group, I found zero third-party sources to establish notability. There is a possibly relevant or irrelevant Los Angeles Times link here but this article never states its name as "American Cryonics Society" or an affiliation with Avi Ben-Abraham. Additionally, the article never cites a foundation date so it is unknown if the society existed near 1999. Other links I found had the name "Cryonics Society of New York" but this article also never cites "New York" with its name. The group's official website never provides a physical address to confirm a New York location or affiliation. Despite that the article claims the society is a registered "501(c)3 organization", there seems to be zero or little evidence to verify this. With another note, the author added "references" to the article here but the references were either irrelevant to the group or promotional. SwisterTwister  talk  05:19, 17 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000(talk) 13:05, 17 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete (for now) and reference elsewhere - Relatively new organization (2005 or 2006), so length of history (a factor under WP:NONPROFIT) is not particularly notable. Nor does size of membership suggest notability.  Its stated scope (the only cryonics society) does suggest some notability, but in the absence of press or any other significant recognition, we have no way of verifying that claim.  At this point it appears to be an organization started by one guy that has done a direct mail campaign to 80,000 to inform them about something about cryonics.  Should cryonics ever really take off, then this organization might play a role and demonstrate its own notability.  But right now it should be a brief reference in the cryonics article.  --Lquilter (talk) 13:43, 17 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, The Bushranger One ping only 08:17, 24 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete per WP:ORG - also noted WP:ADVERT, WP:PROMO. There seem to be a number of organisations with "Cryonics Society" in their titles. This one (apparently established in 2006) doesn't appear to have any specific notability but there was apparently an article published in Long Life Magazine. It's neither the Cryonics Society of New York nor the American Cryonics Society. I wonder if the donors had their questions answered. It seems that the founder was also involved in the Cryonics Institute -- Trevj (talk) 10:03, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
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