Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Katie DeCubellis Memorial Foundation


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The result was   delete. Tone 21:22, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

The Katie DeCubellis Memorial Foundation

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This foundation is for a good cause (the victim of a fatal car accident), but the foundation seems to fail WP:ORG, and the person fails WP:ONEEVENT. Her name results in no Gnews hits, and the only regular hits I can find about the foundation is the foundation's own website. Erpert (let's talk about it) 05:59, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. I was originally going to suggest Weak Keep, but yeah, all the references but one are to the organisation's own web site, and the remainder is about the crash itself, which fails WP:ONEEVENT. Not a notable organisation. Simon-in-sagamihara (talk) 06:13, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
 *  Delete No WP:RS found to assert any organisational notability. Otherwise per nom and also WP:NOTMEMORIAL. Plutonium27 (talk) 06:24, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
 * delete, looks too promotional, not independently sourced. --Dirk Beetstra T  C 10:34, 12 April 2010 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 13:55, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Weak keep It's definitely too promotional in tone, but I think that it can be rewritten into an encyclopedic article. I found a few newspaper articles covering the foundation, though I'm not sure they would be enough to change the minds of those seeking deletion. This article is from the Providence Journal; this is from the Cranston Herald, and this article is from the Block Island Times. In addition, the foundation received a grant from the state of Rhode Island (see this press release) in 2005. These all support the notability of the foundation; I think the account of the crash should be culled down or removed from the article. However, I should not fail to mention that the crash appears to have been the subject of an educational film called The Deadly Consequences of Drunk Driving. A Stop at Willoughby (talk) 03:42, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
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