Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Intelligence Squared


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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) Natg 19 (talk) 00:28, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

Intelligence Squared

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Supported almost exclusively by primary sources, fails WP:CORP Flat Out (talk) 05:30, 26 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. North America1000 09:37, 26 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions. North America1000 09:37, 26 May 2015 (UTC)
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 * Comment – Of note is that several events the organization has organized have received significant coverage. Examples include:, , , , and more are available (e.g. Google News results). North America1000 09:41, 26 May 2015 (UTC)


 * delete If 3rd party sources are paying attention to this group, then we keep it.  If not, and that's what has happened so far, we don't. Andy Dingley (talk) 10:13, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Strong keep This is a frivolous AfD submission. It's trivial --- the first response page of a Google News search --- to generate a long list of WP:RS references for this organization, which stages debates whose participants are themselves virtually all WP:NOT. The US version of Intelligence Squared is essentially an NPR version of CNN Crossfire. It's not an obscure organization by any stretch. This is not a good article --- it needs better sourcing and a lot of cleanup --- but its wholesale removal would be an embarrassment to the project. former wp editor — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:31DB:2010:490C:597F:1C80:44A3 (talk) 16:53, 30 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Instead of filtering Google News down to the (large) subset of irrefutable sources, I tried an alternate tack of just searching for "Intelligence Squared" and "major news source". I only had to do it once: "Intelligence Squared" + "NYTimes" produces: . This is a story about Intelligence Squared, twenty paragraphs long, that ran in the print edition of the NYTimes. Speedy keep, admins. former wp editor  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:31DB:2010:490C:597F:1C80:44A3 (talk) 17:56, 30 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Struck duplicate !vote above, only one allowed, but feel free to comment all you'd like. North America1000 09:54, 10 June 2015 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 13:38, 3 June 2015 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Keep. This one obvious. Le petit fromage (talk) 12:07, 4 June 2015 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 09:56, 10 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep - per significant coverage. Nominator is reminded to read WP:BEFORE nominating for AfD. —Мандичка YO 😜 11:01, 10 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep - notable. Ali Fazal (talk) 19:55, 11 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep-For reasons listed above. This is a prominent debate staging organization with numerous highly publicized debates full of notable pundits from various fields. A quick google search turns up dozens of secondary sources. I think the nominator should attempt to fix the article by including those numerous secondary sources instead of nominating it for AfD.-- Shibboleth ink (♔ ♕) 06:56, 12 June 2015 (UTC)


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