Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stepanavan Youth Center


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.  

The result was delete as non-notable. While the citations seem to indicate that the center has garnered local and national attention, and (through its director) a small amount of international attention, the same can be said of a large number of youth centers that receive awards from mayors, governors, presidents, and other leaders. There is nothing asserted in the article or through the citations that indicates that this particular youth center is more notable than any others with similar credentials. The center should be mentioned in the Stepanavan article, and would even help bring it out of stubiness. ··· 日本穣 ? · Talk to Nihon joe 23:51, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Stepanavan Youth Center

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Unclear notability, sound like advertising. A notability tag has been removed twice. Chris 73 | Talk 19:33, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete as per Chris 73, no notability asserted and most certainly an advert. The Rambling Man 19:45, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Armenia-related deletions.   -- SkierRMH 04:33, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached  Please add new discussions below this notice. Thanks,


 * Delete per WP:SPAM, as well as WP:N and WP:V. No assertion of notability, no verifiable sources given, just an email address (which is a bad idea anyway). -- Kesh 21:33, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete non-notable youth center/organization.--Tainter 23:30, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
 * delete n-n and spam. DaveApter 19:39, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment: I'm looking into this one. Some suggestion of notability (I'm not convinced yet, myself) is that "Lilit Simonyan, MPA Candidate; Founder, Former CEO, International Director, Stepanavan Youth Center NGO Armenia" will be speaking in that capacity at "Unite For Sight's Fourth Annual International Health Conference ... April 14-15, 2007 - Stanford University School of Medicine". That's one point in this org's favor. I'll go look for more. — coe l acan t a lk  — 02:21, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Seems the "Unite for Sight" group is independent of "Stepanavan Youth Center" but collaborates on work that they can do together in Armenia. Here's some coverage of that from UFS's website. I'm not adding this stuff into the article yet, not until I'm satisfied that it actually does pass WP:N. — coe l acan t a lk  — 02:30, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep. Okay, here it is. YouthActionNet is an initiative of Nokia and the International Youth Foundation. YouthActionNet has given an award for the work of the Stepanavan Youth Center. Then the Prime Minister of Armenia, Andranik Margaryan, recognized the work as well, and honored the coordinator as "Outstanding Youth Worker". This award is given to only two people per year, and the coordinator was specifically "recognized for her work in the implementation of state youth policy as president of the Stepanavan Youth Center." That's good enough for me, and I'll go put this into the article. — coe l acan  t a lk  — 03:00, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

After incorporation of new citations

 * Comment: The new citations mentioned above are now incorporated at Stepanavan Youth Center. The article could still use some cleanup, but that is no argument for deletion. I believe the new citations establish notability, particularly the recognition of the Prime Minister of Armenia. If anyone makes serious arguments to the contrary, please notify me on my talk page so that I may consider those arguments. — coe l acan t a lk  — 07:37, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete I have to say even by the title it seems to be non notable. If wikipedia had an article for every youth or community centre in the world it would have about 10 million articles so I do think it should be deleted.  Telly   addict  17:27, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.