Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Aluka

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. Sr13 (T|C) ^ER 06:28, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Aluka

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No external sources, website launched early February 2007. Creators' name is weblinked in the lead. And it's the sole contribution of a single purpose account. Worthy, but no evidence it passes the notability guideliones and there is almost certainly a conflict of interest at work here. Guy (Help!) 16:19, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Recognizing the author's link to the organization, article is written in the attempt to provide a comprehensive information about a family of non-profit organizations in the higher education community. Other organizations (JSTOR, ARTstor, and NITLE) already have entries and Aluka's entry is modeled after them. Organization's informational website was actually launched in 2006 with the first release of the content database in Feb 2007. There are numerous press releases from established organizations covering the event:

• www.rbgkew.org.uk/press/african_plants_release.html
• library.lib.binghamton.edu/mt/science/archives/biology_news
• weblogs.lib.uh.edu/weblogs/africanastudies/2007/02/aluka_a_new_project_from_jstor.html

Please advise.

• Keep This is being offered by some University libraries on a trial basis (Cambridge NZ for one) and has media coverage. PS Olyashok, please sign your entries by adding four tildes to your edits on talk pages. killing sparrows 03:29, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Africa-related deletions. --   ⇒ bsnowball  10:09, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

• What is the next step in this process? Olyashok 01:24, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
• keep per Killing sparrows reasonOo7565 20:53, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached
 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Mailer Diablo 08:17, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

 Relisted again in hope of generating a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached
 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, WjBscribe 23:24, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

• Keep The sponsor , Ithaka, is a well-know organization in the field. The money comes from the Mellon Foundation, which is sufficient to make success very likely. (I added the link). And, just from Google, I added 7 good references; some are connected with the sponsors, so I included one from the Chronicle of Higher Education and one from the Library of Congress. I could additionally have added at least 100, from the newsletters of the participating libraries in the US, Europe, and Africa. My apologies for not having noticed this before. A single keyword search on Google, and I didn't think to do it. DGG 03:52, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
• Keep as improved by DGG. Good work. --Dhartung | Talk 04:29, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

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.