Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kuwait Astronomical Society


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The result was Delete. Michig (talk) 06:07, 9 May 2015 (UTC)

Kuwait Astronomical Society

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WP:ORG, WP:GNG. For obvious reasons, a group founded less than two months ago is unlikely to have amassed a sufficient number of independent, reliably-published sources with "significant coverage" – in this case, Google returns only a few tens of hits, most of them directory listings. The KAS's only real claim to fame seems to be that it is the first such society in Kuwait (an assertion not supported by any third-party source). In addition, this article closely paraphrases its primary reference to an extent arguably bordering on copyright violation. This is the third creation of this article, which the author moved into mainspace from their sandbox despite another user deliberately placing it there for further development (in lieu of speedy deletion).  Super Mario  Man  ( talk ) 18:20, 1 May 2015 (UTC)


 * Comment, exximos@... is the org's contact address, so this looks like WP:COI.
 * Delete, give it some time to achieve notability and meet WP:GNG before recreating. Skyerise (talk) 19:25, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
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 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Middle East-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 21:39, 3 May 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete, WP:TOOSOON. All I found was a directory listing in Sky and Telescope; I don't think it's enough. I think that being a nation's representative member in the IAU (or, if the member is a national academy, being listed by that academy as the representative body for astronomy) would probably be enough for an astronomical society to be notable, but Kuwait isn't listed there. Incidentally, Category:Astronomy organizations and its subcategories are full of other equally-non-notable organizations, in case anyone wants to make a project of trying to get some of the others deleted as well. —David Eppstein (talk) 06:55, 4 May 2015 (UTC)
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