Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/NASAcast

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The result of the nomination was keep. Jaranda ^{wat's sup} 04:11, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] NASAcast

This nomination is odd - I vote Delete based on WP:VANITY grounds; the author admits on her user page that she works for NASA doing programing and podcasting. I am putting this out there for comment - can government information be non-notable? Gay Cdn 12:59, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

• Rewrite and keep. It's a fairly major NASA outreach program. Government information can be non-notable, but only under fairly unlikely circumstances. I'm not even sure it counts as vanity- nationalism, sure, but it isn't promoting the author, close associates, or family of the author. Instead, it's promoting her government, which can be fixed with a cleanup. Captainktainer * Talk 13:46, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
• Strong Keep. Government information can be non-notable, but not in the case of an agency like NASA that often has huge public interest. An army general writing about his specialty or a publicly funded scientist writing about their branch of science are just experts writing about what they know. There might be vanity involved as motive or vanity-like side-benefits of greater recognition and so more chance for the program to be renewed or expanded, but I don't think the Wikipolicy applies to that. I hope User:Allisonhazen puts effort into the article to flesh it out and make it encyclopedic. And I hope she improves the NASA TV article too. Just by coincidence, I was watching NASA TV earlier today (not the podcast though) during the second spacewalk of STS-121. Riveting. Flying Jazz 23:44, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Notable and innovative program of a notable agency. I've wikified and cleaned-up the article a bit. -- Mikeblas 15:03, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

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