Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/G8 Research Group


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The result was   no consensus. WP:NPASR. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 17:53, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

G8 Research Group

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Organisation of dubious notability. Most of the sources I found are from Twitter, Facebook and other pages directly related to the group. Additionally, there are COI issues as the page is being edited by somebody who claims to be managing director of the group. AussieLegend (talk) 04:48, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
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 * Strong keep, The article may not be written properly at the moment, but it can certainly be cleaned up. The article contains external links within its text that can possibly be used as sources. Moreover, this article talks about a subject that deals with world affairs (G8) and one of the only notable organizations that is dedicated to collecting primary sources of information about the group. Also, contrary to the AFD nominator's claim, most of the hits on Google about this group are not from Twitter or Facebook, there is only one from each site. All other hits provide ample information which support the group in question's notability. EelamStyleZ (talk) 21:44, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Actually, what I said was was that most of the hits "are from Twitter, Facebook and other pages directly related to the group". (note the emphasis) Clicking on the link above, the first six links are links to the group's own websites, followed by its Facebook and Twitter pages. As regards notability. The general notability guideline requires that the subject receives "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject", and I don't see the "significant coverage". --AussieLegend (talk) 23:04, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Hmm, but there still seem to be some secondary sources that describe the G8 Research Group such as this one. A few exist for the G20 Research Group. Maybe a merge of the two could suffice or userfy until clearly written out using available secondary sources. EelamStyleZ (talk) 03:37, 7 August 2010 (UTC)

 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:04, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
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