Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/European Society for Medical Oncology


 * 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   keep. AfD withdrawn.  DGG ( talk ) 04:02, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

European Society for Medical Oncology

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Dubious notability. I removed the db-spam and the promotional content from the article because this non-profit might be notable. Google News Archive returns hundreds of results, but the first 50 I looked at were press releases. If someone can find third-party, reliable sources about this organization, I will withdraw this AfD. Cunard (talk) 02:01, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions.  -- Ron Ritzman (talk) 02:19, 29 August 2009 (UTC)


 * speedy keep A medical organization with over 6,000 members in over 100 different countries seems so obviously notable that I don't really see how there could be an debate on the subject. I agree that the article can be improved by finding more third party sources on the subject, but I propose that we immediately close this laughable discussion and replace the proposal for deletion with a tag indicating that this article cites no sources.  Maybe it would be better to actually look at all the references to this organization in a search engine before proposing it for deletion, saying that the first 50 were press releases does not seem to me to be a very reasonable argument as to why the facts in the article are not verifiable.TeamQuaternion (talk) 02:32, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Strong keep. This is the major professional organization of oncologists in Europe, analogous to ASCO in the US. They publish Annals of Oncology, a respectably prominent subspecialty journal. ESMO holds a major annual meeting, material from which is often presented in the popular press (e.g., |+Findings+may+help+identify+those+at+risk+for+recurrence&pqatl=google, . MastCell Talk 03:51, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
 * The first source doesn't mention ESMO; the second source is sufficient; but the third one is a passing mention. The second source indicates this topic is notable and that there are probably more sources out there. AfD Withdrawn. Thank you for your comments. Cunard (talk) 03:56, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
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