Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Freedom to Marry Coalition

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was keep. Joyous 21:08, Feb 26, 2005 (UTC)

Freedom to Marry Coalition
Article doesn't establish notability, instead it's a glorified list. Vote to delete. --Spinboy 20:36, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Are you kidding? A quick Google search of the phrase turns up more than 8,000 hits, including local chapters in several states and Canada. I agree that the article could use some expansion, but the bar is not an article's current state, it's whether an article has the potential to be encyclopedic. A Nexis search shows mentions in 274 articles, including those published in the San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe, Associated Press, Dallas Morning News, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and more. It's clearly a player in the debate if national reporters are turning to it as a resource. It deserves a place here, though it should be expanded. Katefan0 22:16, Feb 16, 2005 (UTC)
 * Expanded a small bit and cleaned up some of the overzealous alphabet soup wikification. Katefan0 22:30, Feb 16, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Definitely notable: heavily involved in a major national controversy.   &mdash; Gwalla | Talk 00:13, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Another bogus VFD. VFD is not cleanup. Bad content is not a justification for deletion.--Centauri 01:12, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep in present form. Reasonably significant political entity as of 2005. Dpbsmith (talk) 02:20, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and expand, notable. Megan1967 05:51, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and expand. --Angr 07:16, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Trilobite (Talk) 10:05, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - rather important US LG Rights organization - Skysmith 11:36, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Jonathunder 05:23, 2005 Feb 19 (UTC)

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