Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The World Forum


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The result was   delete.  MBisanz  talk 22:01, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

The World Forum

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Almost zero reporting on it, appears to have just had one conference back in 2007 & handed out a few awards to prominent businessmen (and that's not even reported in the local press, which given HH's involvement is very surprising). Seems to have been defunct after that (website not updated either). Bromley86 (talk) 19:09, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
 * I found two articles in the Gulf News by using His Highness' name. The earliest reads like a prelim press brief, whilst the second mentions a meeting in April 2007.  There's no report In the Gulf News on how that meeting went (or even that it actually went ahead) and no subsequent reports.  Sounds like The World Forum has fizzled, as with HH & Khalaf Al Habtoor involved I'd expect it to be constantly in a paper like the Gulf News if it hadn't. Using KaH's name, I found confirmation of that first meeting actually taking place..  It doesn't appear to have done anything other than have a single bunfight where they handed out awards to prominent businessmen. Bromley86 (talk) 19:18, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of United Arab Emirates-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:32, 6 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:32, 6 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:32, 6 April 2013 (UTC)
 * BTW, the reason why this came to my attention was there's a small entry in the Lord Ahmed article about it. I wanted to removed that entry, as it's really not pertinent to his life, but Captain Conundrum thinks that if there's an article on WP about TWF then it should still be mentioned in the Ahmed article.  However, were the article to be deleted, he'd have not problem with the removal of the entry in Ahmed's article.  Hence the Afd. Bromley86 (talk) 20:10, 6 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Comment -- This is an organisation with minimal coverage; may be high ambitions. It looks as if after a singel event (six years ago) it failed to get off the ground.  I suspect that the initiative came from Dubai, a small but rich country, perhpas with ambitions beyond its size.  (but that is my POV).  Peterkingiron (talk) 12:17, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete The article is more like a manifesto, and that appears to be all that is left of the organisation. Laudable aims, lacks notability. Fiddle Faddle (talk) 08:12, 13 April 2013 (UTC)
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