Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Western Goals Institute

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 keep. — CharlotteWebb 04:33, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Western Goals Institute

A small and now defunct extreme-right Tory political group. Google excluding Wikipedia and forums yields about 40 unique hits, and that includes the Wikitruth version of the Gregory Lauder-Frost article we deleted. Being defunct since the early 90s there is nothing on Google News, also nothing on Factiva, one mention in JSTOR (and that only because Clive Derby-Lewis is mentioned in tangentially in an article in the Journal of Southern African Studies, and he was a patron of WGI - that is the extent of the mention). The few external sources cited are not about WGI but about Derby-Lewis. The entire article appears to be original research, puff and vanispamcruftisement, and my review of the sources I was going to use to rewrite this abysmally biased and excessive article leads me to believe that (a) the are no real sources and (b) even if there were the group probably falls below the notability threshold. Guy (Help!) 14:20, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

• Keep, article seems to cite plenty of sources, just not all online ones. This is not surprising for a defunct late 80s/early 90s group. Long list of contributors and certainly doesn't seem like a puff piece to me, one of the online source links that is there is to a UNHCR document listing the Institute as an "impediment" to the elimination of racial discrimination in South Africa. -- Blorg 22:36, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Comment: is your point that the article is completely negative about the group? -- Blorg 22:39, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

• Keep This group had several prominent members. Wikipedia will not be improved by deleting this article. Ground Zero | t 01:38, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
• Keep I can't imagine there would be many unique hits now, but the WGI was a prominent organization at one time. CJCurrie 02:36, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
• Keep influential group with some rather prominent members. Being defunct is no grounds for deletion. --BrownHairedGirl ^{(talk) • (contribs)} 04:06, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per above. NeoJustin 22:27, 7 December 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.