Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Australasian Tunnelling Society

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The result was Keep (NAC). SwisterTwister talk 05:54, 24 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Australasian Tunnelling Society[edit]

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They're a real organization. There are a few reference in Gnews to them (both in passing.) A surprising number of regular Google hits. The article does read a bit like a PR piece, and the creator's username makes me wonder if there is a COI thus the tag. Mr. Vernon (talk) 07:00, 22 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Keep and improve the article. VegasCasinoKid (talk) 07:06, 22 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Keep It may well be COI, but we routinely keep article for major professional organizations. Just leave the sourcing tag in place. I put a proper category on page, Nom or others can click if they want to look at the many similar pages we have.E.M.Gregory (talk) 14:51, 22 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Note that I added a sentence and a solid source from a professional journal. This is an obvious, almost procedural keep. References (mostly stuff like studies, conferences it has sponsored) can be found in searches of scholarly & professional journals. It would be better to have someone actually come in and write a good article. Until that happens, however, I believe that we can keep this article as valid, if sadly brief. E.M.Gregory (talk) 17:26, 23 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Withdraw the AfD as keep, please. --Mr. Vernon (talk) 05:24, 24 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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