Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/ODAM

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 merge per below and related nominations. —Xyrael / 15:09, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] ODAM

Not notable. Its mother organisation International Strategic Research Organization has an article. No Google hits for the instution apart from its site at ISRO's webpage and the Wikipedia article Bertilvidet 20:51, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

• Redirect to International Strategic Research Organization. -- Vary | Talk 23:11, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
• Comment. There are more than 70,000 Google hits for the Turkish name "Ortadogu Arastirmalari Merkezi". These *seem* to include a number of reliable sources. However, since I can't read Turkish I can't verify that they are all about this institution. -- Visviva 02:05, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

I have never really understood how Google works. But when you come to the second page you realize that there is but 17, and the vast majority on webpages connected to ISRO. Bertilvidet 10:16, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

and most of those that are not are about other institutes. --Lambiam^Talk 21:09, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

And also I now realize that ODAM (translation of ISRO?) is not the actual subject of the article, which should be titled "Center for Middle Eastern Studies (ODAM)". -- Visviva 02:07, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

ODAM is an acronym for Ortadoğu Arastırmaları Merkezi, which means: "Centre for Middle East Studies". The Turkish acronym for ISRO is USAK. --Lambiam^Talk 21:09, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, I got a little confused. :-) -- Visviva 12:00, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

• Delete Absent further improvement, redirect per Vary. Weak keep based on Google presence. -- Visviva 02:07, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

May I suggest you to go on and see what happens when you reach Google's result page 2? Bertilvidet 12:09, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

Interesting... don't know if I've seen an organization get 70,000 hits entirely from its own webpage before. Wow. OK, merge it is. -- Visviva 16:05, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

• Merge I'd suggest merge as I already have suggested with the merge template. All branches of the ISRO can be presented under ISRO. --Cat out 12:37, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

Comment. I support the suggestion of mergin all ISRO branches into ISRO. Bertilvidet 17:36, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

 AFD relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached.
 Please add new discussions below this notice. Thanks,  (aeropagitica)   (talk)  05:24, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

• Merge as tagged. The best thing to with this article --Brad101 05:46, 30 August 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.