Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Freedom Medicine


 * 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. Nomination withdrawn. (non-admin closure) Störm   (talk)  12:18, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

Freedom Medicine

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Very difficult to find coverage due to name. No significant coverage to pass WP:NORG. Störm  (talk)  16:18, 29 December 2017 (UTC)

I have no memory of creating this article. Zeimusu | Talk page 22:37, 29 December 2017 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * delete per nom and creator. Jytdog (talk) 03:21, 30 December 2017 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  A  Train talk 20:09, 5 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep While it seems odd to argue for notability when the article creator argues for deletion, it does look like this was a genuinely notable organization with adequate reliable source mentions to establish notability. Here are a few significant mentions in notable news media, from the NYT, the WaPo, and the LAT. There are some book mentions too, albeit in a minor role: "Health Care in Muslim Asia", "Killing the Cranes". They were mentioned in a brief funding line item in a Congressional report here, and one of their old monitoring reports is archived at USAID's website here. I saw other mentions, but I think these are adequate to establish notability. PohranicniStraze (talk) 18:08, 6 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep: Enough sources to pass GNG. "The absence of sources or citations" in an article does not determine notability. My interest was raised when I read that it was a 15 day trek by pack animals to get supplies from Peshawar to Afghanistan Transportation/Medical Supply Line (number X, pp 8) that was listed above. The organization is/was affiliated (connected) with the "Afghanistan Relief Committee" (ARC), a non-government organization (NGO) or charitable private voluntary organization (PVO), providing school, medical, or other humanitarian relief, and monitored by Medicins San Frontiers Sweden (MSF-Sweden), that is on the United Nations "Approved list of Humanitarian Relief Providers for Afghanistan". Humanitarian organizations receive private funding but also from U.S. aid to Afghanistan as foreign assistance. In FY 2015 the US "foreign assistance" (world) budget was $48.57 billion with approximately $7.6 billion (16%) (pp. 8) allocated for humanitarian activities, of which the ARC receives funding. Sonia Nassery Cole was a board member of ARC (providing some deorphaning) before founding Afghanistan World Foundation in 2002. A problem I had was digging through the Google lists dominated by "Operation Freedom", "Enduring Freedom" and others in the top search results but there is more "out there". Otr500 (talk) 11:55, 8 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: I also found a Penn Museum archieved article and under "Medical Facilities in Afghanistan" (volume 44, issue 3) giving evidence of clinics in the rural Logar and Wardak provinces staffed and visited by traveling "Freedom Medical" paramedics. The author discusses the cultural factors affecting Afghan notions regarding health care issus and women. Otr500 (talk) 12:47, 8 January 2018 (UTC)


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