Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Grassroot diplomacy


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The result was   delete. Mark Arsten (talk) 01:59, 5 August 2012 (UTC)

Grassroot diplomacy

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This seems to mostly be an advertisement for these people: http://www.grassrootdiplomat.org/. Of course "grassroots diplomacy" is a real thing, but "grassroot diplomacy," without the "s," seems to be an invention of this organization. There seem to be no third party reliable sources which discuss "grassroot diplomacy" which aren't just using the term in the ordinary sense of the words as opposed to an actual movement or concept. &mdash; alf laylah wa laylah (talk) 01:35, 29 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000(talk) 13:02, 29 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete: Agree with alf laylah wa laylah; this article seems like a rather confused combobulation of grassroots diplomacy and the term espoused by http://www.grassrootdiplomat.org/ . However, the sources of the article that are not primary to http://www.grassrootdiplomat.org/ do not seem to support the term grassroot diplomacy. -- BenTels (talk) 19:12, 29 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete As laudable as this organization appears to be, it isn't well sourced enough to have its own article, and as noted as above, the article appears to be a confusing conflation of this organization with 'grassroots' diplomacy and citizen diplomacy. Nwlaw63 (talk) 19:30, 29 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete Lacks notability.  Belch fire - TALK  05:35, 30 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom.& others. Sourcing not sufficient to meet WP:GNG, and content seems to be mostly original research.--JayJasper (talk) 16:48, 30 July 2012 (UTC)
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