Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/College of Arms Foundation

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The result was soft delete. WP:REFUND applies. Killiondude (talk) 08:09, 4 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

College of Arms Foundation

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I'm very sorry to have to nominate this for deletion as the COAF is maybe the second most reputable and important organization in U.S. heraldry, after the Army Institute of Heraldry. However, in keeping with our policies, this fails the WP:GNG. Article has been entirely unsourced for the last 13 years. A search on Google News, Google Books, and JSTOR return no results. A search on newspapers.com returns 13 results, however, they are all the syndicated version of the same UPI story from the early 80s which includes a two-sentence mention. Chetsford (talk) 07:36, 25 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. MT Train^Talk 08:41, 25 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of New York-related deletion discussions. MT Train^Talk 08:41, 25 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

It seems odd that an important foundation created to raise money for and promote the college of arms would not have have at least some news coverage at the time. Prince of Thieves (talk) 16:00, 25 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete considering that heraldry is of no meaning of value in the United States, this organization has no clear reason to be. So the lack of coverage is exactly what we would expect to see.John Pack Lambert (talk) 07:00, 3 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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