Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/IDEA Youth Forum
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- 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 and redirect to International Debate Education Association. ~Eliz81(C) 20:32, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] IDEA Youth Forum
Article fails WP:NOTABILITY, WP:SPAM and WP:COI. This is one Part of a long history of Spam and promotion on Wikipedia, see also -Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam#http:.2F.2Fwiki.idebate.org. Self-promotion and product placement are not the routes to having an encyclopaedia article.
I am also nominating the following related pages for the same:
- International Debate Education Association (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
- IDEA / NJFL National Tournament (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) Hu12 (talk) 01:31, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
- Keep International Debate Education Association and merge the other 2 article into it: Needs sources added to the article, but a quick G-Search brings up a number of results that would qualify as reliable sources to verify the notability of this group. No need for 3 separate articles though. - Rjd0060 (talk) 05:02, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
- Keep IDEA and merge the others into it, per Rjd0060. --Cpt. Morgan (Reinoutr) (talk) 09:13, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
- Ditto Keep IDEA and merge the others into it, per Rjd0060 -- SiobhanHansa 14:10, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
- Keep Per above, and merge the others back to the parent. • Lawrence Cohen 14:35, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
- Comment. Per pre-existing prod+talk, I believe there is sufficient evidence of copyright infringement for IDEA / NJFL National Tournament to delete it outright, as a decision separate from the other two articles. The IDEA site states "All Content is © IDEA 2007" and this cut-and-paste from their PDF of the Tournament Manual would seem to fall under that claim. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Michael Devore (talk • contribs) 06:13, 23 November 2007 (UTC) (Man, that bot is fast! Faster than my reactions to fixing a missing sig.)Michael Devore (talk) 06:19, 23 November 2007 (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.

