Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Food Valley


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The result was keep. Rlendog (talk) 15:22, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

Food Valley

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Contrary to what one might think, this is not a geographical name (a Dutch region with an English name would probably be weird enough to be notable). FoodValley is according to its homepage a collaboration between 8 municipalities. The only (non-independent) sources available are two different homepages, a page on the website of the province financing the collaboration, and an abstract of a 1-year research project in a database of unclear importance/relevance (Narcis). No indication FoodValley has any notability whatsoever (note that the Dutch WP does not have an article either). Does not meet WP:ORG or WP:GNG. Guillaume2303 (talk) 11:09, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Netherlands-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 15:00, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Food and drink-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 15:01, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
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 * Keep. GNews turns up quite a few references to the Food Valley project in Dutch publications, especially De Gelderlander.  In a New Zealand paper I found a couple of related articles about a regional plan there to establish a similar collaborative organization, "Based on a project in the Netherlands known as Food Valley".  GBooks and GScholar also turn up substantial coverage of the Food Valley around Wageningen,, this one for example. Some references also turn up in Italian, apparently about a similar project for a "food valley" (also named in English) around Parma.  --Arxiloxos (talk) 15:43, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep Per Arxiloxos. Added article from De Gelderlander. SpeakFree (talk)(contribs) 23:05, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep Seems to be notable, even though I suspected it was a hoax at first. Borock (talk) 04:12, 31 March 2012 (UTC)


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