Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Medical College Democratic Students Association


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The result was delete. The call for independent sources was ignored, and sources were what was really needed here. I will consider undeletion if anyone can link me to sources. W.marsh 14:13, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

Medical College Democratic Students Association

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Non-notable student organization that runs candidates for its college's student union (student senate). For an organization at a school where one of the primary languages of instruction is English and in a country with an extensive English language media 20 Google hits and no Google News Archive hits screams non-notability. ObiterDicta ( pleadings • errata • appeals ) 17:54, 18 May 2007 (UTC) Many media reports.
 * I almost forgot, although I think it's implied in the above: none of the Google hits bring back articles from reliable sources of which this Association is the subject. ObiterDicta ( pleadings • errata • appeals ) 23:07, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete definitely doesn't seem to build the notability it needs. Tony Fox (arf!) 20:30, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. A search for the association and the college produces no exact matches. Adrian   M. H.  21:54, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
 * WRONG CLAIM See this search at same UK altavista site, this time with quotes http://uk.altavista.com/web/results?itag=ody&q=%22Medical+College+Democratic+Students+Association%22&kgs=1&kls=0
 * Many =/= 78 (44 unique). More importantly, they are either (i) Wikipedia or its mirrors, (ii) from non-reliable sources, or (iii) mere passing mentions in a newspaper article, with no discussion of this organization.  In order to be notable, the subject would have to be the subject of the newspaper article.  ObiterDicta ( pleadings • errata • appeals ) 15:07, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep, campus politics highly important in India. 'One school' in this case, is a quite major institution. --Soman 18:55, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep, It is a historic students organization of Kolkata.Has been in recent news over Nandigram killings that were extensively covered in Bengali media- Bengali being the world's 6th most spoken language.Western news sources that are primarily in English including those in India have much less coveregae of local issues- local in this case meaning the state of Bengal, much larger than many western states. By expanding knowledge about events and organizations of actual people and not onlt those what western/English speakers hear about, will help Wikipedia become more representative.The institution in question is Asia's oldest medical school.MCDSA was involved in the historic ABJDF movement.campus politics highly important in India.That these terms dont make sense to westerne sources is predictable, these events happened before internet came and hence myriad events of similar importance of the west are catalogued but not of places where majority of the world is.See WRONG CLAIM above. --drgarga 10:12, 20 May 2007 (ET)
 * If that is true, it should be the subject of multiple, reliable sources independent of the organization. Since you and Soman are the major editors of this article, perhaps you could add citations to the article revealing the Bengali sources you used to write it. The sources do not have to be online. ObiterDicta ( pleadings • errata • appeals ) 15:17, 21 May 2007 (UTC)


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