Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Northvegr Foundation


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The result was   delete.  Sandstein  07:16, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

Northvegr Foundation

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Article serves solely as an advertisement for a non-notable site hosting widely available public domain material bloodofox: (talk) 05:10, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 02:11, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete [Full disclosure - I have translated for and advised an alternative resource site on what heathens know as "the lore."] I did a thorough online search drawing on my knowledge of names of people involved with Northvegr, and found nothing demonstrating notability under Wikipedia's terms. The site is not only referenced but discussed in blogs and on mailing lists and forums, and was in still more that have now been taken down; but none of these qualify as reliable sources. Its online versions of texts are referenced in numerous books, some of them scholarly; but all of those references that I can find are simply using the URL to cite the text. Moreover, those links and the mainpage link in the article are now broken: the website has been relaunched under new ownership under the name New Northvegr Center, which also claims to be a private educational foundation but is apparently physically located in the UK and therefore should not be assumed to be a successor and simply included in the article (2009, now at www.northvegr.org - an announcement of this appears in a similar range of pagan places online). There is no usable material on Northvegr Foundation itself, and nor could I find reliable sources on its 2 founders under any of the names they have used that are known to me, or reliable sources on the books one of them published. Just internal heathen and other pagan references. Also, Northvegr transcribed at least some of its texts and some of those citing them note errors, which mitigates against any argument that the site was notable as a repository of texts. Recognizing that notability does not expire, I still do not see any evidence that the Northvegr Foundation can be shown to be notable using reliable sources, and its claim using entirely pagan and heathen sources is weak in my judgement. Yngvadottir (talk) 20:58, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete, no secondary sources exist on the topic. Abductive  (reasoning) 04:06, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
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