Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/International Elections Advisory Council


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The result was delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 23:14, 23 March 2017 (UTC)

International Elections Advisory Council

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This article was originally written as if it were the organisation's own website, detailing the CVs of its members and listing its events. I prodded it. The prod was later removed by the article's creator who rewrote the article to make it more encylopedic. However, I am not convinced of its notability (the only hit in Google News is a press release by the organisation itself, suggesting it fails WP:GNG) so am putting it up for deletion. Due to the original way the article was written and the relative newness of the account, I am also concerned that there may be a WP:COI (especially given the organisation's links to Smartmatic, another article the contributor has also added a significant amount of text to. Number   5  7  22:30, 16 March 2017 (UTC)
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Delete: I've been working on the Smartmatic article for some time now and have had multiple single-purpose users intervene and attempt to propagate on related articles. I even observed PR workers from the Philippines (where they have multiple contacts) making edits on the Smartmatic article. Since there are not many valuable sources except for the few by SGO/Smartmatic, this doesn't seem like the article meets Notability.-- ZiaLater  ( talk  ) 17:51, 18 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete Not notable in the slightest; literally just 28 total results on Google, and most of them are self-published by the company itself. Mélencron (talk) 02:22, 22 March 2017 (UTC)


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