Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/National Autism Association


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The result was   delete. —  Aitias  // discussion 13:40, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

National Autism Association

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This article is no longer a copyright violation from the organization's website, but I am unable to establish notability using independent sources. The current sources are published by Medical News Today, whose article submission guidelines do not suggest rigorous editorial standards; this reference supports that interpretation by acting as a mouthpiece for the NAA position (and misusing plethora). There are a few mentions in quality sources, but all of the trivial variety, consistent with a small, non-notable organization trying to promote itself through the media. Until they have an impact and receive substantive coverage, we should not host this article. - Eldereft (cont.) 17:30, 13 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete for now. Per the nom, I'm not seeing coverage in independent, reliable third-party sources. The Medical News Today pieces seem to be essentially press releases, and I agree with Eldereft's appraisal of them as criteria for notability. As a side note, there is an ongoing need to clean up the walled garden of content forks relating to "alternative" theories of autism - dozens of articles on non-notable groups and individuals are created, and then used as WP:COATRACKs for content which violates undue weight. Given the history of abusive editing on this particular topic, I believe we should rigorously apply notability criteria. MastCell Talk 18:14, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete as discussed above, with no prejudice to recreation of reliable sources begin to mention this group. Whole heartedly endorse the comments above about the rigorous application of notability criteria.  AK Radecki Speaketh  18:47, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete per MastCell. THF (talk) 00:41, 16 January 2009 (UTC)


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