Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Turkish Research Program

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was merge to Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Spartaz ^Humbug! 06:33, 9 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Turkish Research Program[edit]

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This is a program of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. WINEP is obviously notable, but notability isn't inherited and I can't find any third-party references talking about this program. Prezbo (talk) 00:10, 1 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This article has been nominated for rescue. Mike Cline (talk) 00:19, 1 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Incidentally WP:ORG states that "Individual chapters, divisions, departments, and other sub-units of notable organizations are only rarely notable enough to warrant a separate article."Prezbo (talk) 00:21, 1 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Keep There is enough content to fill its own article, so its a valid content fork. It is quite encyclopedic and what Wikipedia was created to hold. That reasoning alone should be enough to keep the article. If you want to bother spending a few brief moments clicking the Google news search link at the top of the AFD, you will find 81 results, they considering this a notable group, quoting from it or its members, mentioning their association with it to add to their credibility. Dream Focus 02:24, 1 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

- All of those Google results are just variants on "according to Soner Cagaptay, who directs the Turkish Research Program at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy...". That's not "significant coverage." I don't think it's that encyclopedic, it was created by User:Turkish program and is pretty spammy.Prezbo (talk) 02:32, 1 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep or merge into the main organization. I did considerable trimming, but I think it just might be the main organization of its kind. I'd like to see some real sources to indicate that, though. DGG ( talk ) 03:17, 1 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep or merge into the main organization. In contrast to the vast array of articles of dubious merit (list of bad movies, etc), this article fits comfortably within the mission of the encyclopedia and has tangible utility. We would be better off spending energy attempting to improve it rather wrestling with the 'to be, or not to be' question.Mavigogun (talk) 08:37, 1 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 18:37, 1 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Merge what's left, there's a long history of COI/promotional edits here. Hairhorn (talk) 19:44, 1 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- It's no skin off my back if someone wants to move content from this article into the WINEP article. However "Keep" and "Merge" are very different things and for the former to be defensible I think someone needs to produce some sources.Prezbo (talk) 04:50, 3 July 2010 (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.