Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Global partnership center


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The result was   redirect to United States Department of State. {ossibly something to be written here, but this isn't it. Black Kite 11:23, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Global partnership center

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This is may be notable solely based on the fact that it is managed by the US Department of State (depending on how you interpret WP:ORG). Subsets of non-commercial and government organizations are acceptable if they have a national or international focus AND can be verified with multiple third-party non-trivial sources. The problem is the second part of that requirement - the only related website that Google came up with was this organization's entry on the D.O.S. website - the other links were for unrelated sub-national organizations. Unless anyone can shed some light on a print article or website that isn't coming up, considering WP:N and WP:ORG this fails due to a lack of third party sources. There is also the issue that the complete text of this article can be found on the author's userpage and talk page - making me also wonder whether a conflict of interest may be a factor as well.

On a side note, if sources can be found, the article would need to be completely re-written, since in its present form its a word-for-word copy of the D.O.S. website, and although not a copyright violation as a federal government website, is still plagiarism. Mister Senseless&trade; (Speak - Contributions) 22:05, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment - Verbatim copying of public domain material is acceptable. However, in many cases, the material has neutrality issues when they are copies of an organisation's documents.  For example, material such as "Never before has the U.S. Government had such a diverse array of resources and expertise available to advance foreign policy objectives, assist in the development of nations, and advance American ideals to counter extremism in the most vulnerable corners of the world." would need to dealt with, but those are issues for cleanup through editting and not deletion. - Whpq (talk) 17:54, 4 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete - There doesn't appear to have been much notice taken by the press. times 1, NY Times 2 represent a couple of articles that discuss it.  But at best I see this a smerge to United States Department of State. -- Whpq (talk) 17:59, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete as there is no evidence of the notability required to meet WP:ORG. Nuttah (talk) 08:27, 8 March 2009 (UTC)


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