Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Autism Awareness Campaign UK

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 of the debate was no consensus, defaulting to keep. Ichiro 02:41, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Autism Awareness Campaign UK

Created from an [IP] registered to a [former address] of the Dream Harvest College with which Ivan Corea is [associated] and therefore autobiographical. It's also unverified and PoV/Soapboxish in style. While this seems less dubious than dream harvest and the campaign may be worthy of a wikipedia entry, I don't think that this one is worthy of wikipedia. If it gets an article it should be started by someone who's able to write it NPOV. Delete -- JamJar 12:12, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

• keep: Noteworthy; significance made clear by Parliamentary discussion and widespread recognition of advocacy efforts. Ombudsman 12:55, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete: sketchy; it says that they won the "Beacon Highly Commended Award Certificate for Leadership," but does the award exist? The Association of Colleges doesn't describe it on their website or list winners. The Scottish parliament doesn't recognise the campaign in its declaration of 2002 as Autism Awareness Year (http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/research/pdf_res_notes/rn01-01.pdf). The only recognition the UK campaign has is from the Autism Awareness Campaign Sri Lanka, which was begun by the same two people. --CDN99 13:50, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Actually, there is a Beacon Prize [[1]], the 2004 leadership award was given to .... Bob Geldof. They don't claim to be winners, they just claim to have recieved a certificate of commendation (on their site they claim a nomination). Neither nominations or certificates are mentioned on the beacon site as far as I can find. Personally, my main objection to this site is that it's a biased, self-set-up soapbox. For the "largest ever movement for autism and Asperger's syndrome in the UK" there's not a lot of stuff about them on google, just a lot of self done press releases and admittedly lots of pictures with politicians their website (that's not necessarily a good yardstick, though). A search for Ivan Corea in the [local paper] brings up a few things. If the article were rewritten by someone not involved in the organization, with trustworthy sources given then I'd be happy. Wikipedia isn't, however, a forum for campaigning. -- JamJar 14:26, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete --Terence Ong ^Talk 15:16, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Q0 22:12, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
• keep I removed the POV quote. Just about notable. --Pfafrich 03:18, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
• keep as per above Jcuk 18:45, 15 January 2006 (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.