Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Government Finance Officers Association

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 regular keep. --Coredesat 04:52, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Government Finance Officers Association

No assertion of notability, currently a spam article.--Francisx 18:03, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

• Delete does not assert notability. Vegaswikian 21:15, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep I expect I found this the same way you did (searching for "Linda Christas".) That being said, I'm going with keep under this section of WP:ORG: "Organizations are usually notable if the scope of activities are national or international in scale and information can be verified by a third party source". The organization covers the entirety of the USA and Canada per here: [1] and here: [2]. This is a webpage hosted by the Canadian government that includes an active forum dedicated to the GFOA: [3]. This page refers to them as "GFOA is the professional association of state/provincial and local finance officers in the United States and Canada, and has served the public finance profession since 1906." [4]. This is a page on the University of North Carolina's School of Government page discussing them: [5]. It's pretty clearly notable. - Richfife 04:19, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Keep Although I proposed this article for deletion, you make a persuasive point, and I'd like to change my vote to keep, although the stub clearly needs work.Francisx 20:21, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

• Note I corrected the name (Financial -> Finance). Google hits popped up to 275,000. - Richfife 21:17, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

 AFD relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached.
 Please add new discussions below this notice. Thanks, KrakatoaKatie 05:27, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

• Speedy Close. Nominator changed his !vote to Keep. Remove the Alex Jones cruft, though--no need to start commenting on everyone who has ever "mentioned" this entity when its article is still just a substub. ergot 23:24, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

• Speedy keep per Ergot. I have rm the Alex Jones cruft. Brimba 04:50, 28 October 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.