Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/International Project Regulating Department & Authority

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The result was Article was speedy deleted by User:RHaworth because G3: Blatant Hoax. None of the references listed mention this purported group. (Non-admin closure) Edgepedia (talk) 20:22, 26 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

International Project Regulating Department & Authority[edit]

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At first sight this curiously-named organization seems to be yet another worthy international-federation group that thinks Wikipedia is the place to tell the world about itself. The article was written by SPA user IPRDA (talk · contribs), who also removed speedy and COI tags.

On investigation, it seems to be a hoax:

The article presents IPRDA as a non-profit international federation of project management associations. It is largely copied from International Project Management Association.
From its website it seems to be just a marketing/consultancy company: "IPRDA offer creative, high standard IT projects ideally cater to your business objectives... We can plan, purchase, optimize and geo-target your media... " etc.
The management team (foot of this page) is copied from Inspiron Technologies.
IPRDA's "About us" section here is copied from the "About us" section of Digit9.0, without even bothering to change the name.
The article says it is UK-registered and was founded in 2006, and the website gives postal addresses in Italy, Australia, UK and US; but the website is based in India and WHOIS shows that it was only created on 13 Aug 2013 - four days ago.

If the article were to be kept, all this would have to be investigated, but there is no need because, whatever IPRDA is or is not, there is absolutely no evidence that it is notable enough to have an article. The "findsources" links above find only its website and Wikipedia, and the article references are either its own website or do not mention it. JohnCD (talk) 16:58, 17 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. Rcsprinter, (tell me stuff) @ 17:10, 17 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000^(talk) 17:53, 17 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000^(talk) 17:55, 17 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Comment -- The international association appears to be International Project Management Association. I cannot see why the assocaition would need to create a body to accredit its national member associations, and I would expect indvividual firms to be accredited nationally. The wole thing makes no sense to me. Peterkingiron (talk) 18:10, 17 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - +1 - I'd say it's a hoax. →Davey2010→→Talk to me!→ 18:17, 17 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Dusti^{*Let's talk!*} 00:16, 24 August 2013 (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.