Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Project On Government Oversight

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The result was keep. -- RG² 02:16, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Project On Government Oversight

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After filtering out all the hype, I really don't see how this meets our notability policies. It seems to be mainly a large collection of self-promotional weblinks. There are no outside sources, and a quick google source brings up what initially looks like a number of hits, but which, when examined closer, are mainly blogs, op-ed sites and reprints of the organizations numerous press releases. In debating whether to trim or nominate for deletion, I realized that if all the self promotional material were trimmed out, there would be very little of value left, so here's the nom. AKRadecki^Speaketh 13:29, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

• Keep Try googling through "Google books", which is usually a good indicator of notability beyond websites. This one appears to be oftquoted. Mandsford 01:13, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
• Keep POGO has a long record of successfully causing chaos in US government agencies when POGO publicizes results of investigations in which they say they found (for example) serious security breaches at top-secret installations. Their press releases are taken seriously on Capitol Hill, at the Pentagon, etc. Article could be sourced primarily from news media, instead of POGO's press releases. --Orlady 04:10, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Info:

• Security Upgrades at Several Nuclear Sites Are Lagging, Auditors Find by Matthew Wald, The New York Times, October 29, 2007. - this organization obtained a Government Accountability Office investigation report (probably secret) and supplied it to the press, forming the basis for the NY Times story.
• In Washington, Contractors Take On Biggest Role Ever, New York Times, February 4, 2007. This organization was a principal source for the story on US gov't use of contractors in secret work.
• Administrator Is Dismissed From Nuclear Security Post, NYTimes, January 5, 2007. Identifies POGO as the entity that first made public the story that during a drug raid local police had discovered a computer device containing thousands of classified documents in the home of a former Los Alamos National Laboratory worker.

--67.96.128.158 04:38, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

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