Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The European Council (TEC)


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The result was delete. Mango juice talk 15:39, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

The European Council (TEC)
Probably a hoax. Most of the text of this article is copied from http://www.eurocouncil.org/, which doesn't look like website of serious international organization. I can't find any other reference to this group. When you google "The European Council" TEC – it turns up a lot of results, but TEC means Treaty establishing the European Community, so it seems that all the results refer to the European Council. --Filemon 12:00, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

I think Philemon is clearly excessive in his highly biased "entry-cleansing" zeal: to me, this looks like any other European think-tank albeit an embryonic one, because it was founded quite recently. Plus TEC clearly claims to be "independent and research-oriented" which removes all ambiguity and/or risk of it being confused with an official EU ministry or department. I think we should definitely keep this entry. Maybe Philemon (who seems to be a rightwing Polish irredentist...) doesn't like these guys because their vision of Europe includes Russia?.


 * I’ve just read some of Filemon’s “contributions”: qualifies as overtly rightwing and nationalist.
 * Hence the distrust for perceived enemies of Greater Poland such as EU “bureaucrats” and Russian “Cossacks”.
 * Plus ça change…. --DrVega2

The two user accounts (Solferino and DrVega2) were created today, slightly after user Saint Germain (creator of this article) tried to remove AfD notice from the article. Solferino and DrVega2 removed AfD notice too, making completely false allegations. It is quite obvious that these users are sockpuppets of user Saint-Germain, who tries to defend his hoax. --Filemon 14:46, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
 * delete. There is nothing I have found which would allow me to distinguish between this alleged think tank organisation and the Council of the European Union. There is no evidence whatsoever it would pass WP:ORG. Assertion is not properly asserted IMHO: the only hint of it is when the author inserted "dedicated to innovative research and analysis" without substantiating how innovative it actually is. The org's own website is but a holding page. I would consider that at best, it clearly fails WP:V. Ohconfucius 08:13, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, completely non-notable. &mdash; Nightst a  llion  (?) 19:22, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete Clearly no organization would in their right mind choose such a misleading name. Hoax. All three users should be banned for weak attempt at sockpuppetry and defamation of Filemon. Pascal.Tesson 22:16, 10 September 2006 (UTC)


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