Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Institute of World Affairs


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The result was   keep.  → Call me  Hahc  21  16:10, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

Institute of World Affairs

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This is a personal essay. Wikipedia does not allow original research. Vanjagenije (talk) 20:01, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Soft Delete Amazing how hard it is to find articles on a 90 year old organisation! I think this could be saved by someone who knows the field?   Neonchameleon (talk) 01:16, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep - I guessed it would be notable which I linked the ARS. Neonchameleon (talk) 21:27, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the Article Rescue Squadron's list of content for rescue consideration. Neonchameleon (talk) 01:23, 9 March 2014 (UTC)


 * Keep If this topic is good enough for Encyclopedia Britannica is it good enough for Wikipedia. The content though is a problem written in the first person like From the reading I have completed on the IWA, it became very clear that.. Who is "I"? Probably copied from somewhere else in a different context. There is sourcing:  and   Looks like the topic passes WP:NGO. AfD is topic-level not content-level. --  Green  C  03:15, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Switzerland-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 19:12, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 19:12, 9 March 2014 (UTC)


 * Keep Seems to be a notable organization, and if a major print encyclopedia has an article on it, I agree Wikipedia should. I did some editing  and got rid of things like "and as funny as it is –as I write this paper for a college class".  The article's creator wrote about himself and how he felt about things, instead of keeping it strictly encyclopedic.   D r e a m Focus  09:59, 10 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep I did some substantial rewriting to eliminate the personal essay portion. WP as a matter of principle has always from the first included everything with an article in major general encyclopedias. Inclusion in such works is a secure standard of notability: the established experts at traditional encyclopedic notability have judged them notable, and the articles in them are reliable tertiary sources. We include a lot more also, of course, but their coverage is the starting point for ours.  DGG ( talk ) 03:33, 11 March 2014 (UTC)
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