Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Farm Sanctuary

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 keep and cleanup. Whispering^(talk/c) 16:55, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Farm Sanctuary

This article is just a push piece for "Farm Sanctuary," a non-notable organization. It contains no sources other than the organization's web site. The article has a history of copyright violations, with content directly copied from the organization's web site. Brooklyn5 is probably connected with the organization; he/she uploaded the photo in the article and licensed it under the GFDL. Few people who don't actually work there would ever go to this farm. That, or the image is falsely tagged GFDL, and Brooklyn5 isn't at liberty to license it. Davidstrauss 15:24, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

• NPOV and Keep but only if it truly gets cleaned up. (Vote changed due to NYT article) --Davidstrauss 15:35, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

• Clean up, NPOV, and Keep. Farm Sanctuary is highly notable within the animal rights, veganism, and vegetarianism communities. (Few people ever go to Mount Aconcagua, either, but it is notable. :-) ). -- Writtenonsand 16:20, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

My comment about how many people go there wasn't about notability. It was about highlighting the likely relationship between the article's primary author and the organization. Brooklyn5 licensed the photo GFDL-self, so he or she took it. The only way to take it is to go there. The likely reason he or she went there is an affiliation with the organization. --Davidstrauss 16:39, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Okey-dokey. -- Writtenonsand 16:42, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

• Keep. See the newspaper story from the New York Times at http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9C03E3DB1631F931A35752C0A9629C8B63&n=Top%2fNews%2fScience%2fTopics%2fLivestock which confirms much of the Farm Sanctuary article. --TruthbringerToronto (Talk | contribs) 23:59, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

• Keep - There are no copyright violations on this page. I work for Farm Sanctuary and Farm Sanctuary allows the use of its text under the GFDL license, and of its image under the GFDL and CC-BY-SA licenses. I have already contacted Wikipedia about this matter on 9/18/06 Ticket#2006091810010581. I am connected with the organization, but this article is quite factual. Farm Sanctuary is highly notable among those in the animal rights community and we have many thousands of visitors each year. Please do read the New York Times article cited above for more info. Thanks. -- Brooklyn5 00:12, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

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