Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Freedom Institute


 * 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 delete. Neıl ☎  12:59, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Freedom Institute

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Non-notable Irish organisation described in this article as "think-tank", but which actually appears to be (or have been) a membership association without the secretariat usually associated with a think-tank. The article's talk page shows that a few years ago the article was the subject of externally-mobilised edit wars between supporters and critics of the organisation, but that activity seems to have died down, presumably because the FI appears to be defunct (its website is broken and appears to have been abandoned)

The only links or references are either to FI-related sites, apart from a list of links in Freedom Institute. All of those links appear to be to articles written by members of the FI, rather than articles about the FI, and the onky one which even mentions the FI is this article in FrontPageMagazine.com, which gives it one brief mention in paragraph 13.

Without any sign of significant coverage in reliable sources independent of the subject, I think that the Freedom institute clearly fails WP:N. Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 02:11, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ireland-related deletion discussions.   — Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 02:12, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ireland-related deletion discussions.   — Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 02:12, 18 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete, not notable. Trivial mentions in the media with insufficient depth or independence. --Dhartung | Talk 04:49, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete unless citations from reliable sources are added to comply with the verifiability policy. I am somewhat politically active in Ireland and have never heard of them. Stifle (talk) 15:49, 19 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Comment There is something wrong with the link to this page from the Stone Country article. I could not get here from their. I had to go to the AFD list to accsess this page. That is a major problem and this AFD might have to be done over.Divinediscourse (talk) 22:27, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Reply Did you mean to post that msg to a different AFD debate? I don't see what "Stone Country" has to do with this article, so I'm not sure what you mean. I checked Freedom Institute, and the tag was there, fully formed, with the link in place in my edit of 18 April, 02:11, which is when this AFD page was created. -- Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 14:36, 20 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete Per Stifle.Divinediscourse (talk) 22:40, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete until it has a bit more form.Red Hurley (talk) 23:30, 21 April 2008 (UTC)


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