Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Fairchild Challenge (3rd nomination)


 * 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   speedy keep. Bad faith nomination--no prejudice to a proper nomination  DGG ( talk ) 23:58, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

The Fairchild Challenge
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The page was initially created by a company that was contracted some years ago and who is no longer affiliated with The Fairchild Challenge or the institution, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden. It is necessary for the page be deleted since the institution does not have administrative access to the page. Mbuyu (talk) 12:56, 17 August 2011 (UTC)
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 * Comment. This nomination says it is the third nomination of this article.  I am unable to find traces of the prior two, and while speedy deletion and proposed deletion appear in history, any prior AfD discussions were not noted on the talk page.  They do not appear under the expected titles (Articles for deletion/The Fairchild Challenge, Articles for deletion/The Fairchild Challenge (2nd nomination)) and searching is not turning them up either.  Wikipedia articles are not owned by any business.  It is not necessary for company personnel to have editing access to them, and in fact we'd prefer that they did not edit them.  This is not a ground to delete the article, and since that's all that's presented here this might be subject to speedily closing as keep.  That isn't to say that other grounds for deleting this don't exist.  I see only one independent reference here, to the hometown paper (a hometown paper from a major city, to be sure.)  The tone of the article also does read like advertising, and the nomination does suggest that it was the work of an insider or paid PR professional. - Smerdis of Tlön - killing the human spirit since 2003! 14:29, 17 August 2011 (UTC)
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