Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Free Congress Foundation


 * 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 soft delete. WP:REFUND applies. The Bushranger One ping only 08:06, 7 December 2017 (UTC)

Free Congress Foundation

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This entity no longer exists(nosuchbucket). In the last comment section on the talk page, (updates), written in Jan 2011 by someone claiming to be the son of its then President and CEO, (Jim Gilmour?), we are provided with three new links, (this, this and this), all of which also return 404 (no such bucket) responses. The editor signed as Freecongress.

The website in the infobox of this article reads “freecongress.org” but the site redirects to “American Opportunity”, which is a 501(c)(3) outreach of The American Opportunity Foundation, a for profit company, (which provides a url that leads here). Despite a ref tag dated June 2015, not much editing has happened until March 2017, when an unregistered editor notified the reader of a "rebranding", (and redirected the listed website), and most recently, (October 2017), another unregistered editor tacked on It is a 501(c)(3) research and education organization. I don't think so.

It seems to me that the article was initially created to promote a political platform, went through a particularly contentious period in 2009, (when Jim Gilmore took over / beginning of the Obama Presidency), and now those who most vehemently sought to nurture the article are content to simply "rebrand" (new administration?), by redirecting to the new site, leaving Wikipedia with a "nosuchbucket" vestige of their previous exhortations. While my research suggests there was such an entity worth recording for posterity, what exists is no more than a P.O. box for a political platform that has since moved on. This article should be deleted to allow those with an historical bent to make more encyclopedic use of the title, without the political baggage. Mark  Dask  01:58, 23 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 09:10, 24 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Conservatism-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 09:10, 24 November 2017 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 11:30, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Virginia-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 03:58, 6 December 2017 (UTC)


 * Delete Organizations must be recognized by independent sources through detailed report to become notable. This defunct organization didn't have that, therefore fails basic WP:GNG and no any (sourced!) claim of significance that can meet any points of org notability as outlined at WP:ORG.  –Ammarpad (talk) 09:30, 6 December 2017 (UTC)


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