Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Schenectady County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals


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The result was   delete. Consensus is that the organization is not notable, and that a press release does not constitute enough coverage to pass WP:ORG. StarM 15:43, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

Schenectady County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

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Fails the general notability guidelines and WP:ORG. Article about a small county organization that has not been written about except in an article in the small local newspaper. Article mostly consists of the company's beliefs and history and contains little assertion of notability. Themfromspace (talk) 20:33, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment The article creator has been indefinitely blocked as being a spam only account. Themfromspace (talk) 20:35, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions.   -- Raven1977 (talk) 20:39, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of New York-related deletion discussions.   -- Raven1977 (talk) 20:40, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Speedily put the article down (G11) — no SPCA should ever dish out SPAM. MuZemike  ( talk ) 01:04, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Note — For the record, I am an animal lover and wholeheartedly object to animal cruelty. However, I also wholeheartedly object to spam. MuZemike  ( talk ) 01:06, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep. I added a reference from the Dallas Morning News, which is a considerable distance away from Schenectady County. If a newspaper in Texas mentions an animal welfare organization in New York State, that suggests that the organization is doing something interesting. I also added a reference from The Daily Gazette, a newspaper in Schenectady, which seems to meet on its own the test of substantial coverage in a reliable source. Local doesn't mean unimportant. -- Eastmain (talk) 04:07, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete [Edit conflict -- I have not seen Eastmain's second source]. I don't see evidence of notability. The fact that a press release from this organization (advising dog owners not to use cocoa mulch as bedding) got picked up by a Texas paper does not constitute independent 3rd-party coverage of the organization. It indicates to me that the Schenectady County SPCA is performing a laudable public service, but laudability is not WP:Notability. --Orlady (talk) 04:34, 19 November 2008 (UTC)


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