Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nursing Students Without Borders


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The result was   keep. I'm withdrawing the afd on the basis of evidence presented.  DGG ( talk ) 05:31, 3 October 2014 (UTC)

Nursing Students Without Borders

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No substantial independent sources: all are either from them or from their universities, or routine notices  DGG ( talk ) 19:00, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions.  Jinkinson   talk to me  19:11, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Virginia-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:36, 18 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  D u s t i *Let's talk!* 00:16, 24 September 2014 (UTC)




 * Keep. More external sourcing could usefully be added, but the organization seems notable (and worthy).
 * Some sourcing in the article uses UVA news items, e.g. this link to a UVA newsletter, but this sourcing is legitimate.
 * National recognition of the program is covered in this link to a UVA newsletter. It's on how UVA got recognized by the Corporation for National and Community Service in 2009: it "honored the University of Virginia today, naming the school to the President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for exemplary service efforts and service to America's communities. / Launched in 2006, the Community Service Honor Roll is the highest federal recognition that a school can achieve for its commitment to service learning and civic engagement. Honorees for the award were chosen based on a series of factors, including scope and innovation of service projects, percentage of student participation in service activities, incentives for service and service-learning course offerings. / ... Several volunteer programs were specifically noted: ... • The University of Virginia chapter of Nursing Students Without Borders, founded at U.Va. in 1999, has worked for eight years to build a new Red Cross clinic in San Sebastian, El Salvador, and just broke ground a few months ago. While ..."  The news article is from UVA, but I believe the assertion that the award explicitly noted the Nursing without Borders.
 * Google scholar search link provided above links to a number of academic articles, including "Nursing Students without Borders", by Kuczkowski, Bridget; DeLisser, Rosalind; Maushammer, Ann; Miller, Esther; Walden, Matthew, in Nursing and Health Care Perspectives, Vol. 22, No. 3, May 2001. No doubt the authors have some affiliation, but as professionals, in a peer-reviewed journal, this is significant coverage.  And more academic article mentions there too.
 * covered, favorably, in books/directories about student nursing opportunities, e.g. this one
 * an independent news article about the evacuation of students present at an earthquake, which was nonetheless coverage of the organization, of interest because they were there as part of that organization
 * It seems pretty clearly interesting and hence there will be more coverage available, just not found and added to the article. wp:AFDISNOTFORCLEANUP. -- do  ncr  am  21:59, 24 September 2014 (UTC)


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 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, NorthAmerica1000 01:55, 2 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Keep With topics like this any extended coverage is often in publications where we may question the level of independence. For general press coverage there needs to be a scandal or a disaster (or a celebrity ambassador) for the hacks to start writing. However, in this case the nurses have been lucky. There has indeed been a disaster, as Doncram has discovered, and Associated Press dutifully wrote about it and the nurses. Topics like this are encyclopedic and if the notability guidelines say they are not then the guidelines are wrong. Thincat (talk) 08:54, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
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