Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Center for Development, Democracy and Governance

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The result was delete. -- RoySmith (talk) 23:26, 19 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Center for Development, Democracy and Governance[edit]

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I have just hacked away a huge amount of promotional material from this article, which read like the organization's brochure (and I have no doubt the material came from their website). There is nothing left--and there are no secondary sources to verify the organization's notability per our standards. Drmies (talk) 17:12, 11 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

PS: I have just soft-blocked the creator account, Cddg, for reasons that should be obvious. Drmies (talk) 17:13, 11 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. Toffanin (talk) 19:45, 11 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lebanon-related deletion discussions. Toffanin (talk) 19:46, 11 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete I checked out the links provided by someone in the organisation(?), which concern the construction of a cold storage facility and the planting of trees in the village of Ainata. The CDDG appear to be involved as partners in these projects, but there's no explanation of their role. Neutral Some more projects have been added to the article. It's possible that the CDDG is run by the Lebanese Forces Party so the article might be useful in a broader context. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 20:13, 14 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Despite the grandiosity of the name, it appears to be a small group of activists (12?) based in Dbayeh, who have successfully gone through an auditing process called BALADI-CAP so that they can participate in the disbursement of funds from USAID to local projects. They also have connections to the Lebanese Forces Party, so possibly acting as an indirect point of contact between the party and USAID. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 06:04, 16 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Note that I strongly object to edits like this one by Wissamraji, who is happy to turn the article into a brochure for the organization but won't show up here to present reliable sources that establish the outfit is notable. Should this article be kept, all such content will need to go: it is irredeemably spammy. Drmies (talk) 15:24, 16 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Good job it's (ostensibly) the group's president who's adding all this stuff- I thought it might have been an office junior, acting under orders the editor wrote sarcastically. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 16:06, 16 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Qualified delete I am ignorant of Arabic, and therefore cannot evaluate the sources in that language. Those sources that are in English do not establish notability (they are not secondary reliable sources) and the form of the Arabic sources do not inspire confidence. Furthermore, active editors there do not seem to be engaging in any effort to establish notability. Vanamonde93 (talk) 17:57, 16 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - searches turned up nothing to show this group meets the notability criteria. Onel5969 ^{TT me} 03:48, 19 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.