Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lesbian Association of India

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The result was delete. §FreeRangeFrog^croak 18:20, 11 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Lesbian Association of India[edit]

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Article about an organization which pretty comprehensively fails both WP:ORG and WP:GNG. This article was started on 24 September 2007 by a user with the same username as the founder (Molly Blackburn)— 2 months after its founding. Observe also this blog post. The WP article detailed grandiose plans [1] (section now removed), but their activities even then were centered around raising money in Cambridge (UK) for projects in India which never materialized. LAI is mentioned in this October 2008 article in The New Internationalist, but by that time the founder defined their scope as setting up various blogs, e.g. Break the Silence, and a "resource" website. The last post on the Break the Silence blog was in October 2007. The last post on their main blog was in February 2008. Their main website is long defunct. Their first project was supposed to be in Pune. Note that in this 2014 article in the Pune Mirror discussing lesbian collectives and activism in the city, there is no mention whatsoever of LAI. I can find no mention of it anywhere in the Indian press—both mainstream and LGBT. Likewise no mention of either the organization or its founder in either of the following sources despite them being published 6–7 years after LAI was founded:

Dave, Naisargi N. (2012). Queer Activism in India: A Story in the Anthropology of Ethics, Duke University Press.
Sharma, Alankaar and Das, Arpita (2013) "India: From Tensions to Transformation" in Johnson, Paternotte, and Tremblay (eds.), The Lesbian and Gay Movement and the State: Comparative Insights into a Transformed Relationship, pp. 89–102. Ashgate Publishing

The brief mention in The New Internationalist and one interview with the founder in the local Cambridge newspaper (both in 2008) do not amount to significant, in-depth coverage or evidence of significant impact of this organization. In fact, it appears to have never got past the planning/publicity stage. Voceditenore (talk) 07:50, 4 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. Voceditenore (talk) 07:57, 4 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sexuality and gender-related deletion discussions. Voceditenore (talk) 08:06, 4 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Voceditenore's very thorough explanation says it best. Bgwhite (talk) 09:05, 4 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 16:43, 4 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete - I don't even think that there is any such association exist in India. This article is completely unsourced and relies on non-trust able sources such as Blogspot and social media. CutestPenguin {talk • contribs} 15:44, 5 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as per previous posters. Robert McClenon (talk) 15:48, 5 July 2014 (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.