Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Massachusetts Area South Asian Lambda Association


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The result was keep. Certainly no consensus to delete. This could be closed as "no consensus" but I believe there is enough consensus to keep that I am closing it as such. 78.26 (spin me / revolutions) 14:31, 20 September 2019 (UTC)

Massachusetts Area South Asian Lambda Association

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nonnotable organization Staszek Lem (talk) 01:17, 29 August 2019 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Neutral - Gupta's book contains enough content scattered around what their members said to qualify, in my opinion. The bay windows (also shows up elsewhere, like here) also has some non-quote content. Other sources are generally only mentions. I'm actually surprised it had this much. I was considering weak delete, given it needs to meet WP:NORG, but decided to opt for neutral instead. Nosebagbear (talk) 22:36, 29 August 2019 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, RL0919 (talk) 01:45, 5 September 2019 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Weak Keep. There's relatively extensive coverage in Hawaii University Ethnic Studies and Women's Studies prof. Monisha Das Gupta's Unruly Immigrants: Rights, Activism, and Transnational South Asian Politics in the United States (Duke University Press, 2006, ISBN 978-0822338987). Beyond this, there's little more than listings in various help and orientation sites, plus this coverage in a blog. Barely touches the notability hurdle. -The Gnome (talk) 10:48, 12 September 2019 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, – filelakeshoe (t / c) 🐱 12:22, 12 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep - Per WP:NORG, we need "significant coverage in multiple independent, reliable secondary sources" for this to be notable and while it has many trivial mentions, (including one naming it among the three most important Asian-American LGBT organizations ), it seems difficult to find any significant coverage in another source other than Unruly Immigrants. This article from Boston Spirit make several mentions of it and briefly discusses the organization's relation to Islam, but I'm not sure it can be considered "significant". . However, the WP:NORG also mentions that "The word "multiple" is not a set number and depends on the type of organization or product. Editors should recognize certain biases" and that depending on their profile, some organizations "might establish notability with just one or two quality sources". Given the very specific area of interest of this organization (LGBT Asian immigrants in New England), I'm going to argue that this is one of those cases where Unruly Immigrants is enough to prove MASALA's notability. PraiseVivec (talk) 15:23, 12 September 2019 (UTC)


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